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RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)

One of the highlights of New Orleans literary calendar, the Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26) is celebrating its thirty-first year of festivities in 2017. Over its three decades, the festival has faithfully brought acclaimed poets, writers and playwrights from across the country down to the French Quarter, at once celebrating the rich legacy of its RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)

The Poetry Buffet Presents Fiction

The Poetry Buffet will host fiction writers Moira Crone, Barb Johnson, and Jonathan Kline at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 7, at the Milton H. Latter Branch of the Public Library (5120 St. Charles Avenue). Moira Crone has published five works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Oxford American, and in over twenty anthologies. In 2009, she received the Robert Penn The Poetry Buffet Presents Fiction

There’s real darkness here, real heat: Ari Braverman wins the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction

Room 220 was delighted to learn that our frequent contributor Ari Braverman was recently selected as the winner of the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction, awarded by Bayou Magazine and the University of New Orleans. This year’s contest was judged by author Michael Knight, who said of Braverman’s winning story, “Even Though He’s Still There’s real darkness here, real heat: Ari Braverman wins the 2012 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction

Any System of Thinking Holistically has been Totally Abandoned: An interview with Moira Crone

By Ari Braverman In Moira Crone’s new sci-fi parable, The Not Yet, coastal flooding has turned the Gulf South into a wild archipelago. The New Orleans Islands are mostly a playground for Heirs, the decadent ruling class whose lives have been artificially extended for centuries and revolve around entertainment and vapid ritual.  Naturals—or “Nats,” the Any System of Thinking Holistically has been Totally Abandoned: An interview with Moira Crone

Elysiana

By Moira Crone To mark the five-year anniversary of Press Street’s first publication, Intersection | New Orleans, Room 220 is publishing excerpts of prose and artwork from that book. Press Street co-founder and board president Anne Gisleson wrote an introduction to the series by looking back at how Press Street and Intersection fit into the Elysiana