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Last chance to submit to our SUCCESS & FAILURE edition - deadline is midnight tonight, Wednesday 4th March. Full guidelines via the link - selected pieces are read by actors at KGB Bar in New York, published online, and podcast via Apple Music and Stitcher Radio. We look forward to reading your stories!
Just one more day until the deadline for SUCCESS & FAILURE-themed submissions! Send us your short stories by Wednesday, 4th March - full guidelines available via the link below!
There's a whole extra day this month until our next submission deadline! We're looking for short stories up to 3,000 words on the theme of SUCCESS & FAILURE by Wednesday, 4th March. Selected pieces are read by actors at KGB Bar in New York, published online, and podcast via Apple Music and Stitcher Radio. Full guidelines are available via the link below!
Just over a week to go until our current submission deadline - we're looking for short stories up to 3,000 words on the theme of SUCCESS & FAILURE by Wednesday, 4th March. Selected pieces are read by actors at KGB Bar in New York, published online, and podcast via Apple Music and Stitcher Radio. Full guidelines are available via the link below - thanks for trusting us with your work!
A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our first event of the year last week - but especially to our actors, Kristen Calgaro, Olivia Killingsworth, Tim Farley, and Matt Biagini; and our writers, Christopher Green, William Cass, Mark Sadler, and featured writer Brian Birnbaum from fellow reading series Dead Rabbits Reading Series NYC!
You can read all the stories from the night on our website now - and listen to the performances while you're at it. You'll find a full podcast of the entire show in Apple Podcasts and on Stitcher Radio.
We'll be back at KGB Bar on April Fool's Day - and we're currently accepting submissions on the theme of SUCCESS & FAILURE. The deadline is Wednesday, 4th March, and you'll find full guidelines on our website!
#TBT to this summer's Short & Sweet spectacular, and E James Ford reading Ryan Chapman's "Remember to Laugh"! Because you really, really have to.
And don't forget, there's just a few days to submit to our last submissions theme of 2019! The theme is "Intimacy & Isolation" and the deadline is Monday, November 4th - full guidelines are available on our website!
Stories and recordings from our Accident & Emergency edition are now online! You'll find the stories and recording from the night on our website now, and you can listen to a podcast of the entire show for free via Apple Music and Stitcher Radio by tomorrow. Thanks again to our amazing writers, Rachel Lyon , Katherine Shaw, William Shunn, and Arthur Longworth; and our actors, Michaela Morton, Rachel Brun, Mark Woollett, and Michael Petrocelli! And don't forget, if you'd like to leave a message for our featured PEN America BREAK OUT writer Arthur Longworth, you can do so at bit.ly/liarbreakout.
Huge thanks to everyone who came along to last night's Liars' League NYC reading! But as ever, the lion's share of the thanks go to our writers - Rachel Lyon, Katherine Shaw, William Shunn, and Arthur Longworth, as well as our actors, Michaela Morton, Rachel Brun, Mark Woollett, and Michael Petrocelli! We'll have the stories and recording up in our website and on Apple Music/Stitcher Radio by early next week - in the meantime, if you'd like to leave a message for our featured PEN America BREAK OUT writer Arthur Longworth, you can do so at bit.ly/liarbreakout - we'll have his story online for you all to listen to shortly!
Join us this Wednesday October 2nd for our Accident & Emergency event at KGB - we're proud to be partnering with our friends at PEN America and The Poetry Project to promote their BREAK OUT campaign, aimed at reintegrating incarcerated writers into literary community. We'll be featuring a piece by the writer Arthur Longworth, read by actor Michael Petrocelli - along with three other stories, including one by Rachel Lyon, editor-in-chief of Epiphany A Literary Journal and author of the critically-acclaimed "Self Portrait with Boy". It all starts at 7pm - entrance is free!
A huge thanks to Raquel Penzo of La Pluma y La Tinta, Suzanne Dottino of KGB Bar & Lit Mag Sunday Night Fiction, Rachel Lyon of Ditmas Lit, and Katie Rainey of Dead Rabbits Reading Series NYC for taking part in last night's Brooklyn Book Festival panel, How Not to Run a Reading Series! We had a blast - and we'll have the audio up on our website soon for those of you who couldn't make it. Don't forget, there are plenty more Bookend Events happening this week - for more details, check out the full schedule at brooklynbookfestival.org, and we'll see you on Sunday for festival day itself! #BKBF
Just a few days left to submit a story to our next edition: send us your tales of disaster, failure, and crisis by Monday, September 2nd! Full guidelines via the link below, but in a nutshell, we're looking for fresh, emotionally engaging, character-driven fiction under 3000 words. We're looking forward to reading your stories!