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Marguerite Sheffer
@mlensheffer.bsky.social
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Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
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This Nov you can find me at the Louisiana Book Fest (11/1 in Baton Rouge, @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social annual gala, @bookbanterbooks.bsky.social and Words & Music Fest!

Details and links at www.margueritesheffer.com/events
Event poster (info in post) and the cover of The Man in the Banana Trees
October 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Excited to be joining the Words and Music Festival this year:

"Suspend All Disbelief: Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction"

www.eventbrite.com/e/suspend-al...

With amazing authors @literarydesiree.bsky.social @bryancamp.bsky.social & @deecherrywriter.bsky.social

2 pm, Nov 21
Poster for the Words and Music Festival 2025 pane (see info in post) showing photos of the 4 authors: Marguerite Sheffer, Danny Cherry Jr, Bryan Camp, and Desiree S. Evans.
October 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Weds 9/10 pm: I will be reading a werid horror story from THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES on @storyhour.bsky.social

9 pm CST / 7 pm Pacific - Free!

www.storyhour2020.com

With hosts @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social and co-reader @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social !

🦞
Poster for Story Hour: Livestream Speculative Readings, Hosted by Daniel Marcus and Laura Blackwell: Sept 10, 7:00 PM PDT. Shows pictures of the 2 authors: Jennifer Brozek and Marguerite Sheffer. Link to http://www.storyhour2020.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I'm one of the @gambitweekly.bsky.social 40-under-40 this year!

A surreal honor, and a pleasure to highlight the work of @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social

Friends and writers @deecherrywriter.bsky.social (Third Lantern lit Prez) and @annelllopez.bsky.social are also in this year's group!
Cover of the Gambit's 40-under-40 issue Profile of me (Marguerite Sheffer) in the Gambit's 40-under-40 issue (avail online in full)
July 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Selling books for about the next hour at #readercon, then again tomorrow 1 to 3
👾

@readercon.org
July 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Happy Saturday #readercon, here's where I'll be speaking and schmoozing

And excited to check out panels, hoping to make time loops, orpheus and eurydice (!) And more

@readercon.org
Image schedule for marguerite sheffer at Readercon (all available on the conf site too!)
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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And Aug 20 + 27, virtually teaching with @cecordasco.bsky.social for Write or Die: "Drafting as Play / Revision as Experimentation"

writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
image for class "Drafting as Play / Revisions as Experimentation" with Write or Die - August 20 + 27. More details at Write or Die
July 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Then, for 4 weeks, teaching GENRE BOOTCAMP: Cross-Training with Genre Exploration with the incredible Tierney Oberhammer for The Porch (online, Weds nights)

www.porchtn.org/class/genre-...
screenshot of class description (available at link in post) for GENRE BOOTCAMP at the Porch
July 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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A bunch of writerly stuff coming up in July + August. First off, Readercon this weekend! @readercon.org
Marguerite Sheffer's Readercon Schedule (details available here https://schedule.readercon.org/people/305b1bb9-805b-4148-afac-19273768210c)
July 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Excited to read with badass authors (8 mins each!) for
@swsworlds.bsky.social on Fri Aug 1, Noon EDT (free, zoom)

tinyurl.com/swswa1

with:
@authorterribruce.bsky.social
@marromasco.bsky.social
@nvhaskell.bsky.social
@chelseaconradt.bsky.social
@tabithapotts.bsky.social

#horror #scifi #fiction
Graphic for Strong Women Strange Worlds First Friday Quickread of Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror on August 1, 12 noon EDT(free on zoom). Preregister at https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Tonight @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social is putting on a free Fantasy and Fairy Tale generative workship, led by @bopgoth.bsky.social !

6-8 pm, in person at BK Historic House. FREE / NO RSVP - just come through if you like!
Poster for FANTASY WRITING WORKSHOP: "A Page to Stage Event, led by Adrian Van Young" - Tuesday July 1, 6-8 pm, BK Historic House The poster shows a white unicorn standing in a field of flowers.
July 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Excited to be heading to my first Readercon July 18-20 (@readercon.org) to talk horror, the weird, flash fiction, climate apocalypse, and writing as therapy with so many amazing writers (below -- too many for one post!)
Marguerite Sheffer's Readercon 2025 Schedule: Friday 7/18 Horror and the Weird: 3pm, Salon G/H Meet the Pros(e): 10:15pm, Salon F Saturday 7/19 Kaffeeklatsch: 10am, Suite 830 What Works in Flash Fiction: 12 pm, Salon G/H Sunday, 7/20 Fictions of Climate Apocalypse: 10 am, Salon F The Body (of Work) Keeps the Score: Writing as Therapy (2): 11 am, Salon 1/J And the cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (short story collection) by Marguerite Sheffer
June 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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New Orleans! Please join me in celebrating @ericarstern.bsky.social 's book release @bluecypressbooks.bsky.social, next Weds, June 18, 6:30 pm!

FRONTIER is a beautiful and thrilling ride about birth, the unexpected, and the wild frontiers. I love it.

From @barrelhouse.bsky.social books.
Book event banner featuring "An Evening with Erica Stern in Conversation with Marguerite Sheffer" at Blue Cypress Books, Weds June 18 6:30 pm New Orleans - and the book cover of her debut memoir FRONTIER
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Lovely time at the Bay Area Book Fest. Thanks to @janeciab.bsky.social for hosting and so great to speak with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai-Chu, and @jacqlyy.bsky.social about spec fic! Check out their weird and wonderful books, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MENDING BODIES
Book covers for MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai-Chu (translated by Jacqueline Leung), HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by Anita Felicelli, and THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer
June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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My notebook is full of big ideas and rabbit holes: thank you @deecherrywriter.bsky.social and @maryannaise.bsky.social for talking with @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social writers about activism, journalism, climate and conspiracies to obscure the truth. For a dark talk, i laughed a lot!
Writers Mary Annaise Heglar and Danny Cherry Jr in animated conversation
May 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival

On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1

www.baybookfest.org/session/stor...
Poster for the session described in the post: "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" at the Bay Area Book Fest, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Sunday June 1 at 12:30 pm
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Back from NYC where we celebrated
THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES as a PEN America 2025 Finalist for Debut Short Story Collection

Thanks to the Univ of Iowa Press for this incredible graphic (like, wow!) and congrats to other finalists and @amystuber.com + SAD GROWNUPS for winning the big prize 🥳 !!
Graphic showing the cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer surrounded by characters and images reflecting the short stories within the collection, and announcing the collection as a Finalist for a 2025 PEN AMERICA Literary Award.
May 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Today is GiveNOLA day and @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social just passed the halfway mark! Thanks to everyone who has been sharing, supporting, and otherwise cheerleading our small-but-mighty collective of New Orleans Writers

www.givenola.org/organization...
GiveNOLA graphic showing $1533 of $3000 goal, via 23 donations.
May 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Thank you to everyone who has been sharing + supporting @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social for Give NOLA Day! We are nearing halfway to our goal, and the big day is tomorrow.

We hope to keep hosting free meetups and peer-peer learning for writers in New Orleans!

www.givenola.org/organization...
circle graph showing $1287 raised (of $3000 goal) via 18 donations for GiveNOLA Day 2025
May 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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And thanks to those who have already donated!

www.givenola.org/organization...
donation graph from GiveNOLA Day showing $236 from 5 donations (of $3000 goal)
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.

Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
Screenshot of PEN finalist announcement, including covers of Softie, I'll Give You a Reason, Japa, The Man in the Banana Trees, and Sad Grownups
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Then signing at the University of Iowa Press booth from 2 to 3 (№ 825) #awp2025 . Come chat!
Cover of The Man in the Banana Trees and text from post
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Today at at AWP! "Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" with @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social @cleoqian.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva. #awp2025 12:10 to 1:25 rm 403A
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March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva!

"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm

Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
Flyer for AWP 2025 panel: Los Angeles AWP Panel: Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction with Anjali Sachdeva, Cleo Qian, Chelsea Sutton & Lena Valencia (Friday, 12:10 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. PT, Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two)
March 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A week from today I'm reading with @annelllopez.bsky.social and Vanessa Saunders at my beloved New Orleans Public Library!

5:30 at the Latter branch on St. Charles Ave, Weds March 19
Poster advertising the Author Night: Local Women Authors. "Three New Orleans authors read fiction selections from their debut books. Marguerite Sheffer: The Man in the Banana Trees. Annell Lopez: I'll Give You a Reason. Vanessa Saunders : The Flat Woman. Weds, March 19 5:30, Latter Library 5120 St. Charles Ave.
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM