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Three Rooms Press

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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

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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

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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]

References

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