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2024 SASFest Feedback
We hope you enjoyed the 2024 Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival. We’d love to hear from you! The survey below provides us with vital information for our grants, grant reports, and for future planning. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Read More2024 TWFest Feedback
We hope you enjoyed the 2024 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival. We’d love to hear from you! The survey below provides us with vital information for our grants, grant reports, and for future planning. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Read MoreSUNDAY TWFest EVENTS
9 AM – 2 PM Festival Headquarters open to pick up VIP and LitPasses, purchase Fest merchandise, and to buy tickets. Save time by buying tickets in advance online at www.tennesseewilliams.net/tickets. Sunday, March 24 9 AM—Special Event THE NEW ORLEANS WRITING MARATHON Jumpstart your writing with the New Orleans Writing Marathon! Hosted by founder Richard…
Read MoreSATURDAY TWFest EVENTS
9 AM – 4 PM Festival Headquarters open to pick up VIP and LitPasses, purchase Fest merchandise, and to buy tickets. Save time by buying tickets in advance online at www.tennesseewilliams.net/tickets. Saturday, March 23 8:30 – 9:45 AM—Special Event BOOKS AND BEIGNETS WITH GARY RICHARDS This year’s focus shifts to beloved fiction writer Eudora Welty…
Read MoreFRIDAY TWFest EVENTS
9 AM – 4 PM Festival Headquarters open to pick up VIP and LitPasses, purchase Fest merchandise, and to buy tickets. Save time by buying tickets in advance online at www.tennesseewilliams.net/tickets. Friday, March 22 9 AM – 5:15 PM Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Click here for the full day of events – SCHOLARS CONFERENCE…
Read MoreSUNDAY – THURSDAY TWFest EVENTS
Sunday, March 17 2 – 3:15 PM STELLA SHOUTING CONTEST Our beloved Stella Shouting Contest KICKS OFF our Festival on Sunday! Join us in Jackson Square for the annual competition to see who can best impress our judges with their rendition of Stanley Kowalski’s iconic line. Contestant signup begins at 1:30 and we take the…
Read MoreScholarship Pass Program presented by The Helis Foundation
Thanks to a generous grant from The Helis Foundation, we are pleased to offer scholarship LitPasses to students and their teachers. The Festival LitPass admits you to: All literary discussion panels at TWFest and SASFest. TWF featured conversations Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Any event with LitPass in the venue/price line of the description. Once…
Read More2024 One-Act Contest Finalists
Congratulations to our 2024 One-Act Contest Finalists. Thanks to our one-act judge, Peter Hagan, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: William Brasse has forayed fearlessly into a variety of literary forms and genres. Plays, novels, short stories; comedy, drama, history, biography, myth. He has…
Read More2024 TWFest Poetry Contest Finalists
Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Contest Finalists. Thanks to our poetry judge, Stephanie Burt, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: Ezra Adamo is a student from New Orleans; he was a runner-up in 2021 and a finalist in 2022 for the Saints & Sinners…
Read More2024 TWFest Very Short Fiction Finalists
Congratulations to our 2024 Very Short Fiction Contest Finalists. Thanks to our very short fiction judge, Tara Lynn Masih, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter and co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Winner of the 2019 New South…
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