Essay by Julia Watts, author of QUIVER and NEDDLEWORK “Thank you for your service.” The past several literary events I’ve done in Tennessee, I’ve found myself saying these words to the librarians and high school teachers that I meet, the … Continue reading →
Three Rooms Press is thrilled to announce that NEEDLEWORK, Julia Watts’ hard-hitting, yet hopeful LGBTQ+ Appalachian-set Young Adult novel, has been chosen by the Tennessee Center for the Book to be included in the “Great Reads from Great Places” list … Continue reading →
Three Rooms Press is excited to present our 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominees! We are grateful to work with and publish very talented writers over the past year, and while deciding who to nominate is a difficult process, our 2021 nominees are: … Continue reading →
Three Rooms Press and Hub City Press present authors Julia Watts and Carter Sickels, whose award winning fiction features queer character from and/or living in rural settings, particularly Appalachia. Julia Watts’ forthcoming LGBTQ+ YA (age 16+) novel, NEEDLEWORK comes out October … Continue reading →
As part of our pride month celebrations, and in anticipation of her forthcoming novel Needlework, Three Rooms Press had a few questions for author Julia Watts. Her award-winning YA fiction has been an in-house favorite for quite a while; her stories … Continue reading →
We’re so excited to celebrate with Julia Watts, winner of the 2020 Tennessee Library Association Intellectual Freedom Award! While they are unable to present the award in person as originally planned, the TLA honors Watts for her contributions to the … Continue reading →
It’s been a little more than a week since LGBTQ young adult author Julia Watts (Quiver) was disinvited from the LitUp Knoxville Teen Literary Festival, supposedly because she also writes adult books described as “erotica.” Actually, lesbian erotica, though allegedly, the … Continue reading →
Knoxville-based 3RP author Julia Watts was thrilled when she was invited to her hometown’s inaugural LitUp Festival, to be held October 13 at Knox County Public Library. The event is slated to be the Knoxville edition of a growing nationwide … Continue reading →
This month, we’re giving away 5 advance copies of QUIVER, the brilliant new YA novel by LAMBDA award winning author Julia Watts. Set in rural Appalachia, QUIVER explores the unlikely friendship between Libby, the oldest child in a rural Tennessee … Continue reading →
