is a bimonthly reading series hosted at The Big Hunt in Washington, DC. It was created to provide authors who’ve recently released novels, collections, or chapbooks with independent presses an opportunity to add a major metropolis with a rich literary tradition to their book tour. Three Tents also features upcoming local authors and graduate students, in hopes of bringing these communities closer together.
Next Event:
Sun. March 18th
Doors at 6
Melissa Broder is the author of two poetry collections, MEAT HEART and WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Redivider, Court Green, The Missouri Review online, Barrelhouse, The Awl, Drunken Boat, et al. You can read the online ones HERE. She edits La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series at Cakeshop in NYC. By day, she is a publicity manager at Penguin.
Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (National Poetry Series finalist, Edge 2009), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008), Day Poems (Edge 2005), and other works. She curates Ruthless Grip Poetry, teaches at George Mason University, and is a visiting writer at Corcoran College of Art & Design. Her poems can be found online in Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, and Fascicle.
Carolyn DeCarlo enjoys hugging kittens but lives in a building where pets aren’t allowed in Washington, DC. She’s working on her MFA in Fiction at the University of Maryland. She is the editor of the lit mag UP.
Jackson Nieuwland likes unicorns.
Upcoming Events:
4/15- Carrie Murphy, Eugene Cross, Gina Abelkop, Joe Hall
5/13- Chloe Caldwell, Amber Sparks, Tim DeMay
10/16- Noy Holland, Sam Michel
11/18- Matt Bell, Robert Kloss
Previous readers:
Megan Boyle’s debut poetry-collection, selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee, will be published by Muumuu House this November.
Rae Bryant lives in the Washington D.C. area. Her story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, NY) releases June 2011. Her short stories have appeared in BLIP Magazine, Opium Magazine, PANK, Caper Literary Journal and Foundling Review, among others and have been nominated and short-listed for short story and best of web awards. Work forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Gargoyle Magazineand the PS Books anthology En(Un)Gender Me. She is a VCCA Fellow and a candidate in the M.A. in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University where she is finishing her novel as part of her thesis this spring.
Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), andThe Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications including The Believer, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and The New Yorker. She is the Web Editor for jubilat and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, she lives in Western Massachusetts.
Natalie Corbin is a displaced Michigander currently making her home in Maryland. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland, and now works in the E-learning field. Her work has appeared in So to Speak, and she’s an editor of The Sakura Review, a DC-based journal of fine prose and poetry.
Caitlin Cushman holds an M.F.A in creative writing from American University and a B.F.A in fiction from Emerson College. Her work has appeared in So To Speak and will appear in the forthcoming Grace and Gravity anthology of DC women writers. She has been the managing editor of Poet Lore, America’s 123-year-old poetry journal, for three years, and a supporter of DC-area literati for seven. As this summer will end with Caitlin living in Boston, this is her last reading south of the Mason Dixon line for the foreseeable future. Let’s hope she doesn’t fuck it up.
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart and is the founder of The Lit Pub.
Benjamin Hersey is a writer and performance artist living in Northampton, Massachusetts. He recently collaborated with monologuist Seth Lepore in Get a Job/Take Me Home Tonight and Dance and Text: A Lethal Combination. He has also appeared both in conjunction with and as a guest performer in several of Missoula Oblongata’s productions. Stories and a performance text have appeared in Fact-Simile and Requited. This is What We’re Up Against, a chapbook of monologues, was published by Chuckwagon in 2008.
Michael Kimball is the author of four books, including Dear Everybody (which The Believer calls “a curatorial masterpiece”) and, most recently, Us (which The Observer calls “powerful and moving … breathless”). His work has been on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Prairie Schooner, and New York Tyrant. His books have been translated into a dozen languages He is also responsible for Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard), a couple of documentaries, the 510 Readings, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.
Daniel Knowlton writes in the MFA fiction program at the University of Maryland and, in the Fall, will co-host The Mock Turtle, Maryland’s student reading series. Prior to grad school, he freelanced for a handful of publications on everything from beach party raves in Japan to stem cell treatments for hip replacement recovery. He has happily left his freelance days behind, for now, in favor of fiction, his first true love. He lives in Washington, DC.
Edward Mullany lives in New York City. His first book, If I Falter at the Gallows, was just released by Publishing Genius Press in October. It’s a collection of short, quiet poems that Graham Fousts says are “seeing things,” like the illusory bits of life. He is an editor at Matchbook, a literary journal, and has work published in numerous journals.
Adam Novy is the author of a novel in two volumes, The Avian Gospels. Adam’s work has been published in Dossier, The Believer, The Collagist, The Denver Quarterly, andAmerican Letters and Commentary. He lives in southern California and teaches for at least two colleges.
Joseph Riippi is the author of the novel Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!.His next book, The Orange Suitcase, is forthcoming March 2011 from Ampersand Books. He lives in New York City.
Amber Sparks’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in various places, includingNew York Tyrant, Unsaid, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse, Annalemma, Big Lucks and PANK. She is also the fiction editor at Emprise Review as well as a contributor at the lit blogs Big Other and Vouched, and she lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two beasts.
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the author of five books, most recently of NowTrends from Hobart’s Short Flight/Long Drive series. A long time writer and editor for The Nation, TIME and Sports Illustrated, he was the editor of Time Asia and was among the founding editors of Sports Illustrated China. Currently, he lives in the Palisades, California.
Christian TeBordo had published three novels. His most recent book, a collection of short fiction called The Awful Possibilities, is available from featherproof. He lives in Philadelphia.
Laura van den Berg’s stories have or will soon appear in Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was selected for the Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Program, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award. She currently lives in Baltimore, where she is the 2010-2011 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School.
Philip Dean Walker is a Washington DC area native. He graduated in 2001 from Middlebury College with a BA in American Literature and is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at American University. He resides in the U Street Corridor and works for the Department of the Navy. Also of note, he was named after one of Erica Kane’s many husbands on the soon-to-be canceled All My Children. His fiction is forthcoming in Big Lucks.
Carolyn White is a Californian with blood hailing from tidewater Virginia. She is an MFA candidate at American University, and spends her time writing stories about families, the houses they live in and leave behind, and the stories they keep on telling.
Mike Young is the author of Look! Look! Feathers, a book of stories, and We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, a book of poems. He edits NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, and writes for HTMLGIANT.
Paul Zaic is completing his MFA at George Mason University. He is an alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers (’09). Presently, he is working on a collection of epistolary short stories for his thesis.
