https://www.colleenrothman.com/events daily 0.75 2026-10-10 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/patty-friedmann-reading monthly 0.5 2026-10-10 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/lmnl-arts-fest-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-21 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/salon-of-shame monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ce1ed62cbf6024ac7bbed8/3f6a501b-0be7-4dd4-aaed-e8bb536ee036/Screenshot+2026-01-09+at+10.21.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Events - Salon of Shame - Join us and the folks from ANTIGRAVITY for a fundraiser on their behalf at Holy Diver! Salon of Shame New Orleans is a cringe-reading show, in which people read old writings from their youth for laughs and catharsis. https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/third-lantern-lit-industry-panel monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/gold-room monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/the-new-orleans-book-festival monthly 0.5 2024-02-29 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/lmnl-winter-fest monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/fiction-night-at-old-arabi-lighthouse monthly 0.5 2023-12-19 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/reading-at-the-columns monthly 0.5 2023-06-20 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/city-feet-swamp-mouths monthly 0.5 2023-06-13 https://www.colleenrothman.com/events/lmnl-summer-fest-jamboree monthly 0.5 2023-06-13 https://www.colleenrothman.com/work daily 0.75 2026-07-05 https://www.colleenrothman.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-14 https://www.colleenrothman.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-05-12 https://www.colleenrothman.com/about daily 0.75 2026-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ce1ed62cbf6024ac7bbed8/a82d0cad-d1dc-40a0-89f3-a46b39069eb0/IMG_1335.jpeg About - Colleen Maley Rothman is a writer from south Louisiana. Her short fiction has appeared in Ecotone, storySouth, and Maudlin House, among other publications. Her essays and criticism have been published in The Atlantic, Literary Hub, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her work won the 2026 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition in Creative Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction and the Quarterly West Prose Contest. She has received support from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, where she was a Tennessee Williams Scholar. Colleen is an alumna of Carleton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School. She is an associate series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50 and a member of the Morning Writing Club. After many years in the Midwest, she now lives in New Orleans.