Three Rooms Press Explained

Three Rooms Press is a New York City-based small press.[1] It was founded in 1993 by Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes[2] with a focus on poetry, but the press now publishes mainly fiction, memoir, and art.[3] Three Rooms Press's name was inspired by one of the themes in Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming.[4] The press also manages an annual international dada art and poetry journal called Maintenant, which was featured by the Brussels Poetry Fest in 2016 and 2017.[5] Issues of Maintenant have been featured and sold in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City[6] and the BelVUE Museum in Brussels.[7] Three Rooms Press books are distributed by PGW / Ingram.[8]

Associated authors

Three Rooms Press authors include:William S. Burroughs,[9] Robert Silverberg,[10] Johanna Drucker, Julia Watts, William Least Heat-Moon[11] and Meagan Brothers, among others.

Awards

Several of Three Rooms Press' books have won awards. The Obama Inheritance, edited by Gary Philips, won the 2018 Anthony Award for Best Anthology,[12] and also earned the Bronze Medal for the Foreword Reviews Indie Book Award for Anthologies.[13] Atrium, a poetry collection by Hala Alyan, won the Arab American Book Award for poetry in 2013. Weird Girl and What's His Name, a young adult novel by Meagan Brothers, was named IndieFab's Young Adult Book of the Year in 2015,[14] and was named one of the best teen books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews.[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Three Rooms Press. Poets & Writers. 17 January 2019.
  2. Web site: West Village Original: Peter Carlaftes -. 2 August 2015. Westviewnews.org. 17 January 2019.
  3. Web site: Publisher Profile: How Three Rooms Press Operates. Forbes.com. 14 May 2020.
  4. Web site: Passion and partnership at Three Rooms Press. 22 January 2015. The Villager. 17 January 2019.
  5. Web site: Brussels Poetry Fest. Coudenberg Palace. 17 January 2019.
  6. News: Three Rooms Press and Beyond Baroque Present LA DADA: Performance and new book release with Linda J. Albertano, S.A. Griffin and more.... 2017-06-10. TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles. 2018-11-23. en-US.
  7. Web site: Brussels Poetry Fest BELvue. Belvue.be. en. 2018-11-23.
  8. Web site: Publisher List PGW - Publishers Group West. Pgw.com. 2018-11-23.
  9. Web site: A Lost Exchange Between Burroughs and Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs and Allen. Ginsberg. 16 October 2018. Theparisreview.org. 17 January 2019.
  10. Web site: Latham . Rob . Temporal Turmoil: The Time Travel Stories of Robert Silverberg . Los Angeles Review of Books . Los Angeles Review of Books . 28 March 2019.
  11. Web site: How Small Press Three Rooms Landed William Least Heat-Moon's Debut Novel. Publishersweekly.com. 17 January 2019.
  12. Web site: Anthony Awards . Bouchercon . Bouchercon . 28 March 2019.
  13. Web site: The Obama Inheritance . Foreword Reviews . Foreword Magazine . 28 March 2019.
  14. Web site: Weird Girl and What's His Name . Foreword Reviews . Foreword Reviews . 28 March 2019.
  15. Web site: Weird Girl and What's His Name . Kirkus . Kirkus . 28 March 2019.

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