Gold Room February
February 21 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Free
Perhaps the most Golden of all Gold Rooms (on account of the Mardi Gras Season). Come detox from the parades or continue to party at Zeitgeist!
Here is who we have reading this Friday (open mic to follow):
Colleen Rothman’s short fiction has appeared in Ecotone, storySouth, and Maudlin House, among other publications. Her work was selected for the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology and was a finalist for the Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction and the Quarterly West Prose Contest. She has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Colleen is the founding editor of Nurture: A Literary Journal and an associate series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50. She lives in New Orleans.
Derek Dirckx is a writer originally from Minnesota. He is currently in his final semester of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, where he’s also an instructor of college writing, as well as the Associate Fiction Editor for Bayou Magazine. His work has appeared in The Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 11 and The Baltimore Review.
Lauren Grey originally comes from Colorado. She is an administrative worker within higher education, specifically supporting the mental health of college students at the University of Colorado. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of New Orleans.
Sheena Holt is a writer from San Francisco. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at UNO and a managing editor for Bayou Magazine. Prior to attending UNO, Sheena was a journalist covering the dating industry, and she has strong opinions on matchmakers, lifestyle coaches, and niche dating apps as a result. You can find her creative work in Collision Literary Magazine, forthcoming in Hawai’i Pacific Review, and elsewhere.
