Octavia Books hosts Rita Bullwinkel w/ Maurice Ruffin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, at their storefront (513 Octavia Street). The event celebrates the release of Bullwinkel’s Belly Up. Reading, conversation, with a book-signing to follow. Free & open to the public. In Rita Bullwinkel‘s debut collection, BELLY UP (out from A Strange Object on May 8th), we find ghosts, … Rita Bullwinkel w/ Maurice Ruffin at Octavia Books
We’re big fans of Big Class here at ROOM 220. We’ve shared water coolers, office chairs, and gallery space with the Big Class team, and we’re more than excited about their latest fundraising effort, The Great Ghost Story Auction. A number of our generation’s greatest novelists, biographers, and podcasters have agreed to tell a ghost … Just in Time for Halloween, George Saunders Reads You a Ghost Story
If you’re craving a break from your election anxieties, Room 220 has put together an incredible, non-exhaustive list of recent publications from writers around New Orleans, as well as a few from those who used to be in our midst. Elizabeth Gross, whose chapbook will released from the Room 220 imprint Press Street Press later this month, … Recently read, a New Orleans writers round up: Elizabeth Gross, Adrian Van Young, Justin Nobel, the Peaudunque Writers Alliance, and more
Justin Nobel and Maurice Ruffin will host a Gatecrashers Publishing Panel at 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 6, at Envie Espresso Bar & Cafe (1241 Decatur Street). This event is a call out to writers of all stripes. This is not a writing workshop, but a pitching session. You may have a great essay or short … Gatecrashers Publishing Panel
Anya Groner’s work has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her projects include a recently produced chapbook of poetry and a novel-in-progress called The Trouble With Girls. She has published everything from essays to poetry, but her work frequently deals with the contentious relationships between young people, especially sisters. She … To make this inscrutable thing understandable: An interview with Anya Groner
Maurice Carlos Ruffin has always been a writer, he says, but his writing speaks for itself on this account. Ruffin, a New Orleans native, earned his MFA in 2013 and has been taking the literary community by storm ever since. His work has been widely published, and he has received several accolades, including the 2014 … I don’t have to leave New Orleans, it’s leaving me: An interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The 2015 Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival is upon us, and as it has for the past several years offers a smorgasbord of enticing literary events. Here are Room 220’s picks for the things you don’t want to miss. (The festival runs Wednesday, March 25, through Sunday, March 29. See the full program here.) … ROOM 220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2015 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 25 – 29)
A map of Dublin, drawn by Vladimir Nabokov, based on Ulysses. New Orleanians will celebrate the (fictional) life and times of James Joyce’s protagonist Leopold Bloom with a communal marathon reading of the famous novel that features Bloom’s antics, Ulysses, at this year’s Bloomsday, sponsored by Crescent City Books, beginning at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 16, … Bloomsday 2014: New Orleans does Dublin via Joyce – Again!
Photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis Local writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin recently won two national story prizes, earning him prestige and acclaim (and a nice chunk of change). Ruffin’s story “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You” was selected by novelist Rachel Kushner for the 2014 Iowa Review Award. It will be published in the … Maurice Carlos Ruffin wins two short story prizes
Poet Richard Siken will give the keynote reading for the 7thd annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Siken is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the … Richard Siken to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2014 LitFest March 27 and give a reading at UNO March 28
