Welcoming Nancy Hightower to Liars' League NYC

Big news of the day - I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Nancy Hightowerto Liars’ League NYC as Co-Producer and Co-Host of the series!

Nancy is an incredibly talented writer and we’re lucky to have her – her writing has appeared in The New York Quarterly, storySouth, Gargoyle, Prick of the Spindle, Sundog Lit, Literary Orphans, and Word Riot; her novel, Elementarí Rising (Pink Narcissus Press, 2013) received a starred review in Library Journal and Kinds of Leaving; her short story collection was shortlisted for the Flann O’Brien Award for Innovative Fiction in 2014; her first collection of poetry, The Acolyte, was published by Port Yonder Press in 2015 and has been nominated for a 2016 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association; and she also holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing. Nancy currently reviews science fiction and fantasy for The Washington Post and teaches at Hunter College.

I'm fantastically excited to have her on board – if you haven’t had the pleasure of her acquaintance yet, make sure you come along to our next show to say hello and make her welcome!

Welcome to Portland!

A couple of announcements from us for the weekend! Firstly, we're incredibly excited to announce a new member of the Liars' League fold - our new, extremely hip West Coast sister, Liars' League PORTLAND!

So massive congratulations to the Portland team, Pamela Fleischmann, Veronica Proctor, Jennifer Springsteen, and Alida Thacher! You can find out more about Liars' League PDX on their website a thttp://www.liarsleaguepdx.com, via their twitter feed at https://twitter.com/liarsleaguepdx and on their highly likable facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LiarsLeaguePDX. They'll be doing exactly what we do over here, only with perhaps better coffee. Their first submissions deadline is next month - the theme is Liars & Saints, and the deadline is Monday, 29th February. Any more questions, drop them a line at info@liarsleaguepdx.com!

That's obviously awesome news! Slightly less awesomely, here at Liars' League NYC, due to slightly unforseen circumstances we have to cancel our forthcoming event on 4th February. But don't fret - we'll be featuring this month's Run & Hide stories in future - either as a separate event once we've sorted a date out, or alongside future themes. Sorry to everyone who was hoping to come along to see us in February - but we'll be back in force at KGB on Wednesday, 6th April for our appropriately titled Mistakes & Missteps event! And if you'd like to submit a story for Mistakes & Missteps, the deadline is Monday, 29th February.