NOLA Gold Room, Arabi, LA (2025)

01/09/2024

Livin life like it’s golden with these stars. Please come play. 🫨👏🤩

12/06/2023

This Friday, December 8th we have a very special GOLD ROOM!

Get ready for the stunning words of these three CWW Alums who are doing great thangs out in the literary world.
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Elizabeth Miki Brina is the author of the memoir Speak, Okinawa, published by Knopf in February of 2021 and one of NPR's best books of the year. Her work has also appeared in The Sun, River Teeth, Lit Hub, and Gulf Coast, among others. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans and now teaches writing at the University of New Orleans.

NOLA-native M.A. Nicholson spends her days teaching literature and composition at Young Audiences Charter High School, co-directing LMNL Lit, writing, and enjoying life with her family and friends in the best city on planet Earth. A 2022 graduate of the CWW and former Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine, M.A. has written for Where Y'at magazine since 2018 and was selected for publication in Best New Poets 2022. Her forthcoming debut poetry collection Around the Gate was selected for the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection prize.

Nikki Ummel is a q***r artist and editor for Bear Review. Nikki has been published or has work forthcoming with Gulf Coast, The Georgia Review, Black Lawrence Press, and others. She is the 2022 recipient of the Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize and 2023 recipient of the Juxtaprose Poetry Award for her manuscript, Bloom. Nikki is the co-founder of LMNL, an arts organization focused on readings, workshops, and residencies. She has two poetry chapbooks, Hush (Belle Point Press, 2022) and Bayou Sonata (NOLA DNA, 2023), funded by the New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Foundation. You can find her on the web at www.nikkiummel.com

10/17/2023

This Friday! Please come in spooky attire🎃☠️🫀🧟‍♂️

08/20/2023

These riveting readers got our season started last night🤓😎🫶

08/11/2023

Mark your cals, folks! We back. Happy start of semester. Come get respite from the swelter.

Aug 18/Zeitgeist/8pm

05/12/2023

These wonderful humans are reading at the Zeitgeist 8pm tonight. Graduates and alums and much fun💫

Natalka Proszak is a Ukrainian-Canadian writer and visual artist from Montreal, Quebec.
She has brought her work in set-design and art direction to original and collaborative creations for public art-installations, music videos, visual accompaniment for live music and contemporary dance. Natalka's sculptural and installation works have been exhibited across Canada and the US, and her writing has been published in Soliloquies Anthologies and by Goldfish Press. She is a third year fiction student at UNO's CWW. Learn more at natalkaproszak.com

M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, and educator whose writing appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2022, Tilted House Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Talking River Review, Bear Review, and elsewhere. An alumna of Loyola University and a M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and is the co-founder of LMNL Arts. Connect with her at www.michellenicholsonpoetry.com

Elyse Hauser is a writer from the Pacific Northwest who lives in Louisiana, where she’s finishing her MFA at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. As an emerging environmental writer, she focuses on aquatic ecosystems, especially the deep sea and protecting the unknown.

Clarissa Kendall is a fiction writer and UNO alumn. She won the 2022 prize for fiction thesis for her stories about st*****rs and patrons at the Paper Moon. She currently lives in New Orleans, writing a novel and practicing aerial arts.

05/06/2023

May 12! Mark your cal folks for the last Gold Room of the semester! 🤩💫⭐️✨

04/12/2023

This Friday! After you stop by ‘s International Night at Tulane, come out to Arabi for our featured readers. 8pm, Zeitgeist Theater, open mic to follow. ✨

Andrew Cominelli is a writer from Stratford, Connecticut. He received the 2021 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Faulkner-Wisdom prize for best novel-in-progress, and previously won the same prize in the novella and short story categories. He plans to receive his MFA from UNO's Creative Writing Workshop this spring. His work has recently appeared in Ruminate Magazine and the French Quarter Journal.

Wes Byers is a writer from Western North Carolina. His work has appeared in the Southern Review of Books, Pembroke Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, and Hello, America. He is currently working on a novel.

Katrina Dahl Vogl is a writer and filmmaker from New York. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans. She was awarded the 2019-2020 IFP-Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film and her films have screened at the New Haven International Film Festival, Miami Independent Film Festival, and others. She was a 2023 fiction fellow working under Sabrina Orah Mark at the Under the Volcano residency in Tepoztlan, Mexico & her creative non-fiction has appeared in The Fix.

Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in Hialeah, Florida and graduated from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Catapult, Passages North, Islandia, New Orleans Review, PANK Magazine, Massachusetts Review and other publications. He is a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog and is the Poetry Editor at Peauxdunque Review. Romaguera was an Editorial Intern at Electric Literature. He is a VONA alum and a 2023 Periplus Fellow.

04/05/2023

Are you ready for April’s gold room?? Next Friday, April 14th, these lovely writers will take the stage (and you can too at our open mic)!

Zeitgeist Theater, 6621 St.Claude

02/07/2023

Meet two of our featured readers for Friday’s GOLD ROOM:

Alex Jennings is a lifelong fan and creator of SFF who lives in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in podcastle, The Peauxdunque Review, Obsidian Lit, the Locus-Award-winning Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, and in numerous anthologies including New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People of Color, New Suns 2, and Africa Risen. His speculative poetry review column, “Chapter and Verse” appears regularly in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He is a graduate of Clarion West (2003) and the University of New Orleans. He received the inaugural Imagination Unbound Fellowship to the Under the Volcano guided writing retreat in 2022. Jennings served as MC and co-producer of the popular literary readings series, Dogfish from 2014 until 2020. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Paramaribo (Surinam), and Tunis (Tunisia) as well as the Columbia, MD. He is also an instructor of fiction and popular fiction at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves is available wherever books are sold.

Marlana Botnick Fireman is a writer and illustrator in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. As a writer, she gravitates toward stories that revolve around interpersonal relationships between friends, family, and community members. Marlana cherishes the opportunity to highlight q***rness and Judaism in her work. When she is not writing or reading, she is roller skating, doing yoga, crafting, watching Bob’s Burgers with her partner, or cuddling with her dog Aiko.

02/07/2023

Meet two of our featured readers for this Friday’s GOLD ROOM:

Marie-Claire Serou is a prose poet and fiction author from New Orleans, LA. Her current project, a collection entitled "Conversations with the Living," entwines mythology, science, and personal experience as she chronicles the process of rebuilding meaning in the wake of violent crime. In 2013, she was awarded Tulane's Quarante Club Prize for best short story written by a woman; the following year she was awarded the Dale Edmonds Prize for best short story, without the caveat. Her poetry has been published in Killer Whale Journal, Tulane Review and Tilted House Review.

Annell López is the author of the short story collection I’LL GIVE YOU A REASON, forthcoming in 2024 from the Feminist Press. Her work has received support from Tin House and the Kenyon Review Workshops and has appeared in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Annell is a Dominican immigrant. An Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review and MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, she is working on a novel.

02/06/2023

Gold Room alert!! THIS FRIDAY FEB 10 at 8! See you there ☀️

01/22/2023

Giggling at the gold room! Thank you Justin for an eye into serial killers anonymous, Danny for letters to Egg, Derek for Minnesota drug dealers and Guy for a big FU to Sears! 😊🌟❤️

12/12/2022

Thank you again to our featured readers for making Friday’s Gold Room a success! Musical accompaniment, out-of-state guests, graduations, Hubig’s pies…all good stuff. Stay tuned for January!

12/07/2022

Meet our featured readers for Friday’s Gold Room!

Laura McKnight is a native of Thibodaux, Louisiana and 2013 graduate of the UNO Creative Writing Workshop. She has over 20 years of experience as a journalist in South Louisiana, covering the disappearing wetlands, breaking news, and arts/culture/bars/nightlife for the former Nola.com | The Times-Picayune, among other publications. She now works in communications and lives in New Orleans with her dog, Cinnamon.

Julie Elise Landry writes and edits things. These things include poems, grants, novels, and press releases. Her poetry has appeared in The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, while other writing has appeared in The News-Star, BayouLife Magazine, and other publications. She holds an MA in English from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and she is pursuing an MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans. Julie grew up in New Orleans, and she enjoys bourbon, musicals, and horror movies.

Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he acts as co-organizer of The Splice Poetry Series and reads poems for Tilted House. His work appears or is forthcoming in the Tyger Quarterly, Afternoon Visitor, Figure 1, Narrative, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, and Bat City Review, where he recently won the 2022 Editor's Prize for Hybrid Poetry. His public art projects have been covered by NPR and Time. More at henrygoldkamp.com.

Laura Johnson is a poet based in Eastern Iowa who is a founding co-editor of the online literary journal Backchannels. Laura is graduating in December with her MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans and is also a graduate -- BA & MA in Russian Linguistics -- of the University of Iowa. Laura’s work has appeared in Goat’s Milk Magazine, Thimble Literary Magazine, and The Dewdrop among others. Laura’s chapbook, Memento Vivere (Cabin Bear Books), is available at laurajohnsonwriter.com and wherever you buy books.

Jade Hurter is the author of the chapbook Slut Songs (Hyacinth Girl Press 2017), and her recent work has appeared in Salamander Magazine, The Colorado Review, RHINO, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. She teaches English at the University of New Orleans.

12/03/2022

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12/01/2022

Mark your calendars!! It wouldn’t be the holidays without your December edition of Gold Room. ✨❄️Featuring an all star cast of writers and your two fun-loving hosts, Meghan and Sophie. Cheers!

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