Page to Stage
What is Page to Stage?
Page to Stage is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading. Each quarter we release the theme of which all of our events for those three months will be centered.
Over the course of the quarter, we will host a generative writing workshop, revision workshop, live reading workshop, and the Fiction Sessions Reading Series. You do not have to attend all of the events to participate, though we do encourage you to take on the challenge.
Our Schedule
TUESDAY, APRIL 1 • 6 - 8 PM • BEANLANDIA: Page to Stage Generative Writing with prompts to spark stories in the genre of Science Fiction
TUESDAY, MAY 6 • 6 - 8 PM • BEANLANDIA: Revision Workshop with exercises to help you polish your piece
TUESDAY, MAY 13 - TUESDAY, MAY 20: Submissions to read for The Fiction Sessions: Science Fiction open
TUESDAY, JUNE 3 • 6 - 8 PM • LOCATION TBA: Performing Your Prose Workshop
SATURDAY, JUNE 7 • 7 - 9 PM • LOCATION TBA: The Fiction Sessions Reading Series
Sci-fi is a subgenre of speculative fiction that deals in futuristic concepts such as advanced technology and science, space, time travel, parallel universes, and more. Sci-fi can take on hopeful, dystopian, or absurdist leanings. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is often credited as the first work of science fiction.
Famous works of science fiction include: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1985 by George Orwell, Kindred by Octavia Butler, and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
Science Fiction
The Fiction Sessions Submission Rules
This reading series is an opportunity open to all writers, regardless of prior publications, agented or not, published or not, etc. Third Lantern Lit welcomes and encourages submissions from writers of all races, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and military status.
Submissions will be open for one week, from Tuesday, May 13 to Tuesday, May 20. Five readers will be chosen at random through a randomized number generator. Each reader will be given a 7-minute reading slot (around 1,000 words).
This is a live, public reading. Please only submit if you will be in town for the event.
Submission to this event does not transfer any Intellectual Property Rights to Third Lantern Lit.
Submission guidelines
Submissions must follow the reading cycle’s chosen theme. This quarter is SCIENCE FICTION.
We are only accepting previously unpublished fiction pieces.
The work that is submitted to Third Lantern Lit will be the work the writer will perform on stage. The submission may be a short story or excerpt from a novel. Please submit the 1,000 word cut you would like to perform.
AI submissions are strictly prohibited and submissions generated using AI will not be accepted.
All work submitted must be work owned by the author and not plagiarized from the work of others. This is a no tolerance policy. Failure to adhere to this will result in a ban from all Fiction Sessions events.
Stories that contain gratuitous violence, racism, sexism, trans- or homophobia, etc. will not be considered.
We are not accepting erotica (sex is fine, but nothing NC17 for this particular series) or fanfiction.