The first Get Lit of 2026 is coming up on Tuesday! Bundle up and get ready to write!

Time to exercise those writing hands! Join us at Twelve Mile Limit for our FIVE HOUR writing marathon. Time to get those words on a page ✍️📚

Love is in the air! Join us for the first romance-themed Page to Stage event this Monday led by the wonderful Farrah Rochon!

Our January calendar!

EVENT TONIGHT! We'll be at Miel Brewery from 6 to 8 PM, getting some words down on the page! Please come join us!

This Sunday will be our quarterly reading event, Fiction Sessions! This quarter our theme is "Spooky Stories!" We'll be at Big Couch from 7 pm to 9 PM! (readers to be announced later this week)

Tomorrow night will be our live reading workshop, Performing Your Prose! Got a reading coming up? Feeling stage fright? Come on through and let us help you bring your words to life! We'll be at Big Couch from 6 to 8 PM!

Our December event calendar is here!

Thanks to all who were able to attend our panel on getting your books into bookstores!!

Come get some writing done with us tomorrow from 11 to 1 PM at Sports Drink Cafe!

Tonight!

Next tuesday, we'll be at BK House hosting a panel on how to get your book into bookstores! We'll have a panel of booksellers answering all of your questions, in order to increase your knowledge on how to get your books on shelves! The event is from 6 to 8 PM and open to the public!

Y'all need to pull up to our third annual gala! Come support the local arts, and have a few drinks while dressed up like you're going to a 1920s fancy party (or whatever bohemian means to you)! If you can't make it, you can always just leave us a donation :) Thanks! thirdlanternlit.org/donate

This Sunday, we'll be throwing our 3rd annual Gala! Details in the image; link to tickets down below! We want to see all of you there!! thirdlanternlit.ludus.com/index.php

Event tomorrow! Desiree S. Evans will be leading a horror revision workshop! We'll be at Big Couch from 6 to 8 PM. See you there! :)

This sunday from 5 PM to 7 PM, we'll be hosting a Q & A with prolific horror writer, Philip Fracassi! We'll be talking all about the craft of writing horror, and Philip will read from his latest novel, the Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre!

NOVEMBER CALENDAR!

NOVEMBER CALENDAR!

This Nov you can find me at the Louisiana Book Fest (11/1 in Baton Rouge, @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social annual gala, @bookbanterbooks.bsky.social and Words & Music Fest! Details and links at www.margueritesheffer.com/events

Join us at Sports Drink Cafe for the Daytime Get Lit! We'll be there from 11 AM to 1 PM on Friday!

Great question! So we do timed writing sprints, where we ask that the attendees try to write without stopping in order to help turn off their internal editor. We typically do writing sprints in segments of 15 minutes to warm up, then about 45 minutes.

Excited to announce that on 11/2 from 5 to 7 PM, I'll be doing a Q & A w/ prolific horror writer Philip Fracassi (@pfracassi.bsky.social) at Courtyard Brewery! As w/ all @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social events, this is free to attend! Hope to see you there! thirdlanternlit.org/events/writi...

This Monday we'll be doing some generative writing at Miel Brewery, with our Get Lit event! We'll be there from 6 to 8 PM. We hope to see you there :)

This Thursday we will be hosting "A Producer's Guide To Writing A Novel" from 6-8PM at Courtyard Brewery! This workshop is perfect for writers who do not have a formal literature background or who are thinking about starting their 1st novel or memoir. Hope to see you there!

Forgot to tag them! @mlensheffer.bsky.social @literarydesiree.bsky.social @bryancamp.bsky.social

Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction! The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM! We hope to see you there :)

In honor of spooky month, come enjoy the spooky writing workshop! This is the first of the final cycle of Page to Stage events for the year, so don't miss it!

First event of the month will be our 5 Hour Writing Marathon, this Saturday at 12 Mile Limit! We'll be there from to 12 to 5 PM!

Our October event calendar is out! We hope to see y'all at one of our events! :)

Last September event!! We will be at Miel Brewery on 09/29 @ 6 to 8 PM! See you there :)

EVENT NEXT MONTH: Folks, I'll be performing a reading on October 16th at 6 PM at 12 Mile Limit for the LMNL reading series! If you're in town, come and check me and the readers out :)

EVENT TOMORROW! Our next event is our Daytime Get Lit generative writing series. We will be at @sprtsdrnk.bsky.social from 11 AM to 1 PM! Hope to see you there :)

The turnout the other night was incredible! So were all of the performances! Thank you to all who came. Now, photo dump time!

Introducing the readers for the Fantasy & Fairy Tale Fiction Session! Come listen to these fabulous writers this Sunday at Big Couch at 7 PM!

The Fantasy & Fairy Tale readings for the next Fiction Sessions coming soon! ' We have some great readers, so stay tuned for the announcement!

Last night's Literary Agent 101 presentation (led by @lizified.bsky.social ) was dope as hell! This is just one example of the programming that TLL offers at NO COST to attendees! If you like what we do, consider signing up for our newsletter :) thirdlanternlit.org/newsletter

Last night was awesome! Thanks to everyone who could make it! :)

Next event will be this Wednesday, 9/10 @ 6 to 8 PM! Want to learn the basics of obtaining your own agent? Then come check this out! We'll be at the BK House and Gardens!

Next event will be this Wednesday, 9/10 @ 6 to 8 PM! Want to learn the basics of obtaining your own agent? Then come check this out! We'll be at the BK House and Gardens!

This friday from 2 to 4 PM, we will be at The Rink discussing part 3 of Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell! Come learn how to fix up that work-in-progress with us!

Our September event schedule!!

Our next and last event of the month will be on 08/29 at @sprtsdrnk.bsky.social ! It's our monthly generative writing event, Get Lit. We will be there from 11 AM to 1 PM :) Hope to see you there!

Our next and last event of the month will be on 08/29 at @sprtsdrnk.bsky.social ! It's our monthly generative writing event, Get Lit. We will be there from 11 AM to 1 PM :) Hope to see you there!

Next event! We'll be meeting up on 08/18 @ 6 to 8 PM to get some writing done at Miel Brewery! We hope to see you there :)

Next event! We'll be meeting up on 08/18 @ 6 to 8 PM to get some writing done at Miel Brewery! We hope to see you there :)

Don't forget! Tomorrow is our part 2 of our book club, led by @mlensheffer.bsky.social ! We'll be at The Rink from 2 to 4 PM!

Don't forget! Tomorrow is our part 2 of our book club, led by @mlensheffer.bsky.social ! We'll be at The Rink from 2 to 4 PM!

Tomorrow! Bring something you are working on

And bring something (anything, in any state) to get some peer feedback on!

Part two of the book club for Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell is this Friday! There will be one more meeting after this one, so jump on board while you still can! We will be discussing ✍️revising✍️😎