We're counting down to our next Fest and hope to see you there!
March 26 - 30, 2025
Stella Shouting Contest: Sunday, March 23
Holiday Gift Ideas from TWFest!
Passes are on sale for the 2025 Festival!
Save $50 on the VIP Pass now through December 31. Treat yourself to the full fest experience or make it a gift to the Festival lover on your holiday list.
Click the button below for full details and to purchase.
Plus, our popular LitPass is on sale now at a reduced price of $75 (full price goes in effect in January at $100). The LitPass admits you to all of our literary discussions, the scholars conference, author conversations, and more.
Click the button below for full details and to purchase.
A Friend of Tennessee membership makes a great gift!
Plus you know your gift is supporting a literary arts nonprofit that promotes writers and other artists. Memberships begin at $50 and come with discounts, merch, passes, and party invitations.
When you purchase the membership, send an email to info@tennesseewilliams.net with the name and email address of the person you're giving it to, and we'll send a nice gift email to them with the details.
Planning to attend the 2025 Festival? A membership for yourself gets you a 10% discount on Festival tickets, plus other benefits!
Offer the gift of writing to someone on your list (or yourself!) with our Writer's Resolutions virtual retreat!
Start the writing year right with an inspiring day of resolution-setting. Live virtual sessions on freewriting, establishing writing habits and habitats, submitting your work, and querying agents will give you the tools to meet your writing goals. And it comes with the flavor and mystique of New Orleans’ long literary history.
Agents, editors, and writers will be with us to offer their best advice so you can have the best writing year of your life!
Full details and schedule HERE.
SALE PRICE NOW THROUGH DEC. 31: $165
Full price of $180 begins January 1.
Check out our merch shop for great gifts: mugs, shirts, hats, journals, tote bags, stickers, and more!
CLICK HERE or the image below to shop!
Thanks to everyone who made our Gala such a fun, successful event! We'll have photos posted soon. We'd like to thank John Cameron Mitchell and Temple House for the gorgeous venue; our musicians: The Delta Revues, Layla Musselwhite, and Harry Mayronne; our host for the evening, Vinsantos, who was charming as always; our awards presenters, Peggy Scott Laborde, C. Morgan Babst, and Lawrence Henry Gobble, for letting everyone know the many contributions to the arts our honorees have made; our honorees Priscilla and John Lawrence, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and Bryan Batt; our sponsors and donors, Mignon Faget, The Historic New Orleans Collection, SAZERAC and the Goldring Family Foundation, Mister Gregory's Shrimp Boil Cabaret, and Market Wego; and our auction chair, Sara Woodard. Many thanks to our guests and volunteers for making it such a fun night!
Our 2024 Festival was spectacular! Check out the 2024 Showreel above brought to us by our friends at The Bend Media.
Click the cover image to view and download the full color PDF version of our 2024 program book. Prefer a full spread FLIPBOOK? Click HERE for the digital flipbook version—sound on for the full effect!
