This Wednesday evening, 7pm at KGB Bar - join us for the Hearth & Home Show - and we're very excited to be Time Out Critic's Pick this week! Thanks, Time Out!
We'll be featuring four stories from writers Jennifer Sears, J.D. Petersen, Sarah Evans, and Christopher Green, performed live by actors Jennifer Farrugia, Richard Flight, E. James Ford, and Rebecca Mills. Free entry, cheap drinks, literary prizes, and seasonal treats.
What more could you ask for? Hope to see you there!
We're excited to announce our new submission themes for 2015 - and we'd be delighted to accept stories on any of them as of this post! You might notice a couple changes below - we've extended the deadline slightly for our first theme of the new year to allow for post-holiday chaos, and we're introducing a month devoted to Flash Fiction of 1,000 words or less - the deadline for that is Tuesday, 30th June.
Otherwise, the same rules apply - send your submissions to us at info@liarsleaguenyc.com, and for full guidelines, just see our Submissions Page. So here they are:
Entrances & Exits (Deadline, Wednesday, 7th January 2015)
Kiss & Breakup (Deadline, Saturday, 28th February 2015)
Born & Bred (Deadline, Thursday, 30th April)
Short & Sweet - Flash Fiction (Deadline, Tuesday, 30th June)
Crimes & Misdemeanors (Deadline, Monday 31st August)
Magic & Moonlight (Deadline, Saturday, 31st October)
Good luck, everyone! And we'll be annouuncing the lineup for our last event of 2014 - featuring four Hearth & Home-themed stories - early next week. Watch this space for details!
We've had an incredibly busy month with shows at Lit Crawl NYC and the Brooklyn Book Festival, so we're a little late in announcing the lineup for October's Body & Mind Show - but man, do we have a great show to make up for it! Yes. Yes we do.
So on Wednesday, 1st October at KGB Bar, we have five original short stories featuring yoga obsessions, phallic architecture, family revelations, emergency rooms, and guilty gospel - plus, as ever, our shambolic literary themed quiz! Here's what's on the lineup next week:
Cross-Heart by Christopher Green
When Elsa Sings by Rayna White
Pool Envy by Stuart Snelson
A Slow Drive Home by Lauren Krauze
We Were Present All Along by Jessica Weisberg
We'll be announcing the performers for the evening very shortly, so watch this space - in the meantime, make a note of it in your diaries - that's 7pm this coming Wednesday, 1st October at KGB Bar in the East Village.
And if you're interested in submitting a piece to us for our next theme, we're currently seeking submissions for our winter Hearth & Home edition. Stories should be between 800 and 3000 words long, unpublished, and all interpretations are welcome - the submission deadline is Friday 31st October.
Look forward to seeing you next week!
Massive thanks to everyone who came along to this week's Liars' League NYC Official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event, NEW YORK LIES! We had a huge crowd - sorry if you weren't able to snag a seat!
Special thanks to writers Manuel Martinez, Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino, Anthony Tognazzini, Jeanette Topar, and Jerry Sticker; and actors Jon Sprik, Margi Sharp Douglas, Samantha Jane Gurewitz, Denise Poirier, and Everett Goldner - as well as to everyone at 68 Jay Street Bar for making us feel so welcome.
Our next show will be on Wednesday, 1st October at our usual haunt, KGB - but in the meantime, there are still plenty of Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Events to check out - and of course, the festival itself on Sunday. For more details, see theFestival website. See you there!
It's a busy month for us here at Liars' League NYC - we took part in a packed Lit Crawl NYC event last weekend, we're about to announce the lineup for next month's Body & Mind edition, and this Tuesday, 16th September at 7pm at 68 Jay Street Bar in DUMBO, it's our Official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event - New York Lies!
We're featuring a special lineup of New York writers for the event - namely:
Manuel Martinez (Center for Fiction Fellow 2013)
Cedrick Mendoza-Tolentino (Center for Fiction Fellow 2014)
Anthony Tognazzini (NYU, New School)
Jeanette Topar
Jerry Sticker
With performances by:
Jon Sprik
Margi Sharp Douglas
Samantha Jane Gurewitz
Denise Poirier
Everett Goldner
What's more we'll also be throwing in our usual themed literary quiz at the intermission, this month featuring New York-themed questions. Big hint: none of the answers will be Paul Auster. It's going to be a great show, guys!
So that's Tuesday, 16th September at 7pm at 68 Jay Street Bar -just a couple blocks away from York Street Station (F Line), a few minutes' walk from High Street Station (A,C), or a very pleasant stroll over the Brooklyn Bridge if that takes your fancy. Entry is, as ever, completely free - we look forward to seeing you there!
In the meantime, you can find out more about the Brooklyn Book Festival and other Bookend Events happening this week on their website.
Like drinking? Love literature? Then join us tonight at 7pm for some Filthy Goddam Lies on the second phase of the Manhattan Lit Crawl at Botanica Bar!
For those of you who haven't experienced Lit Crawl, it's a FREE evening of readings, literature, and literary events, at a series of bars across the East Village and Lower East Side. You'll find details of the various venues and events over on the official Lit Crawl NYC website – events start at 6pm, and culminate in an afterparty at The Magician in the Lower East Side at 9pm where you can put your feet up, drink more, and talk literature.
But we'll be appearing at Botanica Bar, at 47 East Houston at 7pm, a few steps away from Broadway and Lafayette Subway Station (btw Mulberry and Mot - Map here), and we're excited to be featuring original stories from writers Thaddeus Rutkowski, Rachel Mann, and Jennifer Haskell-Smith, with performances by Jeff Wills, Amber Bogdewiecz, and Samantha Jane Guerwitz. Entrance is completely free, and the drinks are decidedly cheap.
It's going to be a great night - and we have a fantastic show in store for you. Look forward to seeing you there!
