PANEL DISCUSSION: Chelsea Hodson, Allie Rowbottom, and Amanda Stern

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 3:53 p.m.

b'Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It\\u2019s right here at\\xa0LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota.\\nThis week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on July 10, 2018, with Chelsea Hodson (Tonight I\\u2019m Someone Else), Allie Rowbottom (Jell-O Girls), and Amanda Stern (Little Panic).\\nChelsea Hodson\\xa0is the author of the book of essays\\xa0Tonight I\\u2019m Someone Else\\xa0and the chapbook\\xa0Pity the Animal. She teaches at Bennington College and she co-founded the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\\nAllie Rowbottom\\u2018s essays can be found in\\xa0Vanity Fair, Salon,\\xa0The Florida Review,\\xa0No Tokens,\\xa0The South Loop Review,\\xa0PQueue,\\xa0Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus,\\xa0A Women\\u2019s Thing\\xa0and elsewhere. Her essay \\u201cGhosts and Houses\\u201d won the 2015 Editor\\u2019s Award from\\xa0The Florida Review\\xa0and received a \\u201cnotable\\u201d mention in\\xa0The Best American Essays of 2016. Her long lyric work, \\u201cWorld of Blue\\u201d received her a \\u201cnotable\\u201d mention in\\xa0The Best American Essays of 2015. She has taught fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston and CalArts, as well as at Boldface, an undergraduate creative writing conference. Allie has been the recipient of fellowships from Inprint and Tin House, where she was a 2016 scholar.\\nAmanda Stern\\xa0is the author of the novel\\xa0The Long Haul\\xa0and the nine book\\xa0Frankly Frannie\\xa0middle grade series. Since 2003, she has helmed the Happy Ending Reading series and she\\u2019s been a NYFA Fiction Fellow and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in\\xa0The New York Times,\\xa0New York Times Magazine, Salon,\\xa0Post Road\\xa0and\\xa0St. Ann\\u2019s Review.\\n*\\nThis event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'