Third Lantern Lit

A New Orleans based non-profit providing community-building, events, education, and resources to writers at all career stages

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Our event is on 01/07 @ Beanlandia!

The winter 2025 theme: Period fiction.

"Page to stage" is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading.

Over the course of the quarter, we will host a generative..🧵

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TOMORROW'S EVENT IS GETTING RESCHEDULED:

The Page to Stage event will be getting moved to the 12th @ 2 to 4 PM.

It will still be at Bean-landia! Spread the word!

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Our event is on 01/07 @ Beanlandia!

The winter 2025 theme: Period fiction.

"Page to stage" is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading.

Over the course of the quarter, we will host a generative..🧵

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...writing workshop, revision workshop, live reading workshop, and the Fiction Sessions Reading Series.

The latter will be at the end of the quarter, where writers will be chosen at random to take all that they learned from "page to stage" and perform the piece they created!

[Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit]

Our event is on 01/07 @ Beanlandia!

The winter 2025 theme: Period fiction.

"Page to stage" is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading.

Over the course of the quarter, we will host a generative..🧵

[Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit]

Our January calendar!

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Our January calendar!

[Apex Magazine @apexmag]

"That’s the question Damon (Earth-X) and Marissa (Earth-Y) were tasked with answering, but they were busy eye-fucking each other."

New short fiction today by @DeeCherryWriter : "What Happens What Happens When a Planet Falls From the Sky?"

☄️https://t.co/2j05ZPO1av

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But while we are here...

Our next event is this Friday 11/22 at Sports Drink!

We will be there from 12 PM to 2 PM, getting some words on the page and socializing with peers.

We hope to see you there :)

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Due to things getting all Nazi-lite on this site, we have gone ahead and moved somewhere, where the skies are bluer :)

[Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit]

Due to things getting all Nazi-lite on this site, we have gone ahead and moved somewhere, where the skies are bluer :)

[JRGreeneauthor @jrgreeneauthor]

I’ve been selected to read from “French Quarter Saints” at this event. Come on by!

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Next TLL event coming up:

Performing your prose!

Our community outreach director, Daphne, will be hosting a live reading and open mic workshop on Saturday at Beanlandia from 2 to 4.

We hope to see y’all there :)

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We have a full November, y'all!

Please consider signing up for our newsletter in order to stay up to date with our events, and to receive other notifications that non-subscribers may not get 👀

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First event is tomorrow!

It’s our generative writing series, Get Lit, which will be at Miel Brewery from 6 PM to 8 PM.

See you there :)

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We have a full November, y'all!

Please consider signing up for our newsletter in order to stay up to date with our events, and to receive other notifications that non-subscribers may not get 👀

Just go to https://t.co/OESFZABzvi and scroll to the bottom in order to sign up :)

[Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer]

In two weeks I'm officially launching my debut short story collection, THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES with one if my heroes, @MauriceRuffin ! Come celebrate with us @BlueCypressBook

https://t.co/7MdSsTgD7a

[🐾Beware of Dogma🐾 @ellelljaytoo]

#amreading 📚✨

🔮the man in the banana trees // stories 📖🖊️

Marguerite Sheffer // debut collection // short stories

@mlensheffer Thanks to #netgalley & @UIowaPress for the advance copy.

#newbooks #booktwitter #writersaremyrockstars💫

[Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast @ShortStoryToday]

Our October 30th episode features New Orleans author Marguerite Sheffer. Her debut collection THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES won the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Award. “Haunting and hilarious, horrifying and heartwarming, this is short story gold."- John Vercher, author of DEVIL IS FINE

[Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast @ShortStoryToday]

THIS WEEK! We celebrate New Orleans author Marguerite Sheffer! Her debut collection THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (@UIowaPress) is a Debutiful Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2024. "Heartbreaking and brilliant..." - @JamilJanKochai, author of THE HAUNTING OF HAJJI HOTAK

[Short Story Today: A Feedspot Top 20 Story Podcast @ShortStoryToday]

OUT NOW! New Orleans author Marguerite Sheffer is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University, where she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. Read her collection THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (@UIowaPress) to see how it's done.

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We have a full November, y'all!

Please consider signing up for our newsletter in order to stay up to date with our events, and to receive other notifications that non-subscribers may not get 👀

Just go to https://t.co/OESFZABzvi and scroll to the bottom in order to sign up :)

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REMINDER

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SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW:

In partnership w/ Tennessee Williams Festival and Beanlandia, we are launching a new themed fiction reading series: "The Fiction Sessions."

our inaugural reading series will feature works of SPECULATIVE FICTION. 🧵(1/5)

https://t.co/Vzb1jv52aS

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One correction to the “Spooky Writing Workshop” graphic:

T Clark will actually not be able to make it anymore!

HOWEVER, we have found a replacement and will make that announcement ASAP :)

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We got two events this week, folks!!

10/22 - we have a “Spooky Writing Workshop!”

10/25 - we will be having the our daytime Get Lit generative writing series!