Thanks to everyone who submitted a story for our Freedom & Restraint theme (for some reason Google assumes “freedom” involves water and a sunset, at which point one is compelled to throw one’s arms in the air) - watch this space for details of selected stories! In the meantime, we're now accepting stories for our SHORT & SWEET FLASH FICTION edition in August - deadline is Monday, July 1st. Full guidelines on our Submissions page - we look forward to reading your stories!
We're excited to announce a whole new set of themes for next year! You can submit to any of these themes from this point onward - as usual, just take a quick look at our submissions guidelines first. We're already looking forward to reading your stories!
Plots & Schemes - deadline Monday, 7th January
Memories & Mementos - deadline Monday, 4th March
Freedom & Restraint - deadline Monday, 6th May
Short & Sweet Flash Fiction - deadline Monday, 1st July
Accident & Emergency - deadline Monday, 2nd September
Intimacy & Isolation - deadline Monday, 4th November
As usual, we're looking for short fiction between 800 and 3000 words (apart from our Short & Sweet Flash Fiction theme, which has a 1000 word limit), and all interpretations of the theme are welcome. Send your unpublished stories to us via email, but don't forget to take a look at our submission guidelines for some handy tips before you do. Mostly they exist to make our lives easier, but there's also some useful stuff in there for you, too. And naturally, thank you for trusting us with your work!
A few behind-the-scenes rehearsal shots with just a few of the people who make Liars' League NYC so frickin' awesome, because god knows it's not me. Join us on Wednesday, 13th September for our Brooklyn Book Festival Event, the Liars' League Songbook - a selection of short stories set to music!
You'll also get a chance to hear Caitlin Mahoney and Travis Tench performing some of their own music - and it's all completely free! We'll be at the bougie Red Room above KGB Bar - doors at 6.30pm, show starts at 7pm - so make sure you get there early if you want a seat!
We're excited to be back at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival as AN OFFICIAL 2017 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT - it's the second Liars' League Songbook!
On Wednesday, 13th September at 7pm, we're once again mashing up live music with story readings - featuring the musical stylings of artists Caitlin Mahoney and Travis Tench alongside stories from C.D. Rose, Rachel Karyo, Denis Woychuk, Erika D. Price, and Mary Crosbie, performed by actors Matt Alford, Kristen Calgaro, E. James Ford, Max Woertendyke, and Olivia Killingsworth. What's more, Caitlin and Travis will be playing a few tunes of their own as part of the program - so don't miss this special free night of fiction and music!
As befits such a fantastic lineup, we'll be in the classy-as-all-get-up Red Room - that's the cooool speakeasy one flight above our usual haunt at KGB. Entry is free, but as ever, we suggest you get there early as space will be limited for this very special Book Festival event - doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start - why not give yourself a reminder right now on our Facebook Event Page? Here's the lineup:
The Mall by Mary Crosbie
Read by Olivia Killingsworth
Music by Travis Tench
The Rachels by Rachel Karyo
Read by Kristen Calgaro
Music by Travis Tench
Don Delillo by C.D. Rose
Read by Matt Alford
Music by Caitlin Mahoney
The Mink by Denis Woychuk
Read by E. James Ford
Music by Travis Tench
Refrigerator Children by Erika D. Price
Read by Max Woertendyke
Music by Caitlin Mahoney
Liars' League NYC is part of the annual Brooklyn Book Festival - for more information about the Brooklyn Book Festival, including the full festival program, visit the official website, check out theofficial Facebook page, follow the Festival on Instagram @bkbookfest and on Twitter @BKBF. And while you're at it, hashtag #BKBF for good measure. Look forward to seeing you there!
All the stories and recordings from our Borders & Boundaries night are now online! So if you missed hearing them live at KGB, all you have to do is pour yourself a drink, lower the lights, head over to our Borders & Boundaries page, and enjoy.
Once again, thanks to writers Erin Smith, Karen Levy, Maisy Card, and Joseph Salvatore; as well as performers Michaela Morton, Michael Petrocelli, Amber Bogdewiecz, and Frances Uku. And particular thanks to BOA Editions for kindly allowing us to feature Joseph’s story on the website – if you like his story (and we know you will) make sure you check out his collection, To Assume a Pleasing Shape – available now on Amazon!
We’ll be back at KGB on Wednesday, 3rd August with an evening of flash fiction – if you’d like to submit a story for that, we’re accepting entries until Thursday, 30th June – full details on the submissions page of our website!
Big news of the day - I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Nancy Hightowerto Liars’ League NYC as Co-Producer and Co-Host of the series!
Nancy is an incredibly talented writer and we’re lucky to have her – her writing has appeared in The New York Quarterly, storySouth, Gargoyle, Prick of the Spindle, Sundog Lit, Literary Orphans, and Word Riot; her novel, Elementarí Rising (Pink Narcissus Press, 2013) received a starred review in Library Journal and Kinds of Leaving; her short story collection was shortlisted for the Flann O’Brien Award for Innovative Fiction in 2014; her first collection of poetry, The Acolyte, was published by Port Yonder Press in 2015 and has been nominated for a 2016 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association; and she also holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing. Nancy currently reviews science fiction and fantasy for The Washington Post and teaches at Hunter College.
I'm fantastically excited to have her on board – if you haven’t had the pleasure of her acquaintance yet, make sure you come along to our next show to say hello and make her welcome!
We have a couple of announcements to make today - the first is that the stories from last week's Mistakes & Missteps edition are now online! Head on over via the link to enjoy stories by writers Jon Stubbington, A.C. DeLashmutt, James English, and Dani Rado. We'll have the recordings online soon, so watch this space for more details! And sit tight for our next big announcement...
