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]
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.
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]
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]
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.
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]