The launch of Dan Bright and Justin Nobel’s The Story of Dan Bright will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, November 18, at Octavia Books (513 Octavia Street). Justin Nobel writes about science and culture for publications like Oxford American, Orion, Audubon, Tin House, Nautilus, and Newsweek. His story, “The Last Inuit of Quebec,” was published in Best American … Octavia Books hosts the release of The Story of Dan Bright
Piper Kerman will speak on Thursday, November 17, from 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. at Tulane University’s Freeman Auditorium on their uptown campus. Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison from Spiegel & Grau. The book has been adapted by Jenji Kohan into an Emmy Award-winning original … Tulane University hosts Piper Kerman for a conversation on women in prison
The Dogfish Reading Series presents Sam Ligon and Kate Lebo at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 17, at Dogfish headquarters (2448 N. Villere St). The event is free and open to the public. Sam Ligon is the author of two novels–Among the Dead and Dreaming and Safe in Heaven Dead–and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen … Dogfish presents Sam Ligon and Kate Lebo
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
Garden District Book Shop will host Rick Barton and Joanne Leake at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, at their storefront (2727 Prytania Street). The two will sign copies of Monday Nights: Stories from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. For the last twenty-five years, the fiction writers in the MFA program at the University of … Rick Barton and Joanne Leake Booksigning
LadyFest Lit will host Rain Prud’homme-Cranford at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at Material Life (6038 St. Claude). This is the first event in the annual Lady Fest Literary Reading Series. LadyFest Lit is partnering with Miz Carla Williams, proprietor of Material Life boutique and gallery, for an intimate evening with Miz Rain Prud’homme-Cranford. Refreshments & drinks will be served. Miz … LadyFest Lit presents: Rain Prud’homme-Cranford
The Jaguar Man Lara Naughton Central Recovery Press, 2016 [Editor’s note: Lara Naughton will read with Justin Nobel at Antenna (3718 St. Claude Avenue) at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, 2016.] In short, Lara Naughton’s The Jaguar Man is a book about X. X is a seasoned traveler’s harrowing experience in a Belizean jungle. X … “X will mean many things” – A Review of Lara Naughton’s The Jaguar Man
The Crescent Chamber Artists will host Vox Feminis: A Celebration of Women Poets at 8 p.m. on Thursday, October 20, at the Marigny Opera House (725 St. Ferdinand). The event will offer a musical exploration of women’s poetry, featuring artists Katherine McClain, Kay Sherwood White, and RuthAnn Chadwick, accompanied by Raymond Kit Loong Yee. Free … Vox Feminis: A Celebration of Women Poets
Jonathan Penton, Rania Zada, and Xander Bilyk will read at Material Life (6038 St. Claude) at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25. The reading is a celebration of the release of Standards of Sadiddy, a book of poems by Jonathan Penton published by Lit Fest Press. New Orleans poets Xander Bilyk and Penton will read alongside … Jonathan Penton, Rania Zada, and Xander Bilyk read at Material Life
The Conversation Literary Festival will take place in New Orleans from October 20th – October 22nd for a series of conversations all geared to answer the question: Can a Black Mecca exist in the American South? The festival’s aim is to place literary conversations in the living room, to remove the conference hall and give back to … The Conversation Literary Festival
What should Antenna carry forward? What can evolve? What does our creative ecology need from Antenna now & what pathways can we build together to get there?
This October, Antenna invites artists, writers, culture bearers, cultural workers, neighbors, partners, and audiences to join a series of Critical Response Process (CRP) sessions around our emerging Values + Pathways Framework.