Page to Stage
A GENERATIVE READING SERIES
THEME: FANTASY & FAIRY TALE
In partnership with Tennessee Williams Festival.
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, JULY 1 • 6 - 8 PM • BK HOUSE: Page to Stage Generative Writing with prompts to spark stories in the genre of Fantasy & Fairy Tale
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 • 6 - 8 PM • BK HOUSE: Revision Workshop with exercises to help you polish your piece
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 - TUESDAY, AUGUST 19: Submissions to read for The Fiction Sessions: Fantasy & Fairy Tale open
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 • 6 - 8 PM • TBA: Performing Your Prose Workshop
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 • 7 - 9 PM • TBA: The Fiction Sessions Reading Series
Fantasy & Fairy Tale are a subgenre of Speculative Fiction that focus on magical and supernatural elements. Often set in an imaginary world with its own rules and creatures, or set in our world with additional elements, fantasy explores magic, mythical beings, and adventures that do not follow the rules of our world.
Some works of fantasy include The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin.
Fantasy & Fairy Tale
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.
The Fiction Sessions Reading Series is live streamed to the Third Lantern Lit Instagram.
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.