Third Lantern Lit

Writing is a lonely art. Make it less lonely by finding your feedback group at Courtyard Brewery on February 23! Make friends, share your work, and connect with peers all in one place! 📖🎉

Our next event:

Get Lit!

Come on down to Miel Brewery and hang out with us 02/09 and get some writing done! We'll be there from 6 to 8 PM!

Our February calendar!

January is coming to a close, which means one more event! Daytime Get Lit is this Friday! Bundle up and come on over ☕️

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!

January 2026 1/5 Page to Stage: Romance Workshop @ 6 to 8 PM (Big Couch) 01/10 5 hour writing marathon @ 12 PM to 5 PM (12 mile limit) 1/20 Get Lit Writing Series @ 6 to 8 PM (Miel Brewery) 1/30 - Daytime Get Lit @ 11 AM to 1 PM (Sports Drink Cafe)

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!

December calendar: 2nd - Performing Your Prose: live reading workshop - 6 to 8 PM (Big Couch) 7th - The Fiction Sessions: Spooky Stories - 7 to 9 PM (Big Couch) 15th - Get Lit Writing Series - 6 to 8 PM (Miel Brewery) 18th - Daytime Get Lit - 11 AM to 1 PM (Sports Drink Cafe)

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!

11/02 Q & A w/ Philip Fracassi courtyard Brewery 5 PM to 7 Pm 11/04 Revision Workshop: Horror Big Couch 6 to 8 PM 11/09 Gala!!! BK House 5:30 PM to 9 PM 11/18 Getting your book on shelves BK House 6 to 8 PM 11/21 day time Get Lit Sports Drink Cafe 11 AM to 1 PM 11/24 Get Lit Miel Brewery 6 to 8 PM

NOVEMBER CALENDAR!

11/02 Q & A w/ Philip Fracassi courtyard Brewery 5 PM to 7 Pm 11/04 Revision Workshop: Horror Big Couch 6 to 8 PM 11/09 Gala!!! BK House 5:30 PM to 9 PM 11/18 Getting your book on shelves BK House 6 to 8 PM 11/21 day time Get Lit Sports Drink Cafe 11 AM to 1 PM 11/24 Get Lit Miel Brewery 6 to 8 PM

NOVEMBER CALENDAR!

Event poster (info in post) and the cover of The Man in the Banana Trees

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.

Writing Craft Q&A with Philip Fracassi — Third Lantern Lit This moderated Q&A session will explore writing craft with prolific horror writer & screenwriter, Philip Fracassi . At the start, we will be treated with a reading by Philip from his newe...

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 :)