The Last Bohemia Fringe Festival

The Last Bohemia Fringe Festival, a program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, presents a series of performances Thursday – Saturday, March 21 – 23, 2024. Ticket links are included with each event below or visit our TICKETS PAGE. Please buy tickets in advance and you’ll be on our door list. No…

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2024 TWFest Schedule

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF 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…

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2024 Writer’s Resolutions Retreat Session Notes & Links

Link to 2024 Writer’s Resolutions Session Leader Bios SESSION 1:  Write Every Day Begin the day with unbridled writing. A New Orleans Writing Marathon will cure your writer’s block as you learn to freewrite with no critical voices or feedback—just pure joy. Correspondents from a live French Quarter writing marathon will check in, bringing us…

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2024 WRITER’S RESOLUTIONS RETREAT LEADERS

Kayla Min Andrews is a biracial, Korean American writer living in New Orleans. She has a piece forthcoming from The Massachusetts Review and has been published in Cagibi for fiction, Halfway Down the Stairs for nonfiction, and Asymptote for literary translation. Her work was nominated for a Best of the Net 2020. She was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans…

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2024 Retreat

Welcome to our virtual retreat! We’re excited that you’re part of the lineup. I’m your contact for logistics and promotion, so let me know if you have any questions. Please fill out the form below. Cheers, Tracy Cunningham, Managing Director tracy@tennesseewilliams.net  |  225.937.9754

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Welcome, Speakers!

Welcome to our 2024 Festival lineup! We are so happy you’re part of the Festival.  Please mark the Fest dates: March 20 – 24, 2024.   While the Fest is Wed – Sun, author events are typically Th – Sun. As soon as we can, we’ll give you the exact date and time of your event(s).…

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2023 Program Book

Take a look at our last Festival program book for a look at all of our events. Click the image below for the version you’d like to see:                                           DOWNLOADABLE FULL COLOR PDF     …

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2023 TWFest Very Short Fiction Contest Finalists

Congratulations to our 2023 winner, runners-up, and finalists. Thank you to Olivia Clare Friedman for serving as our judge this year and to James Jordan for coordinating this contest. From top left moving left to right, they are: 2023 RUNNER – UP: Joshua Ambre (he/him/his) is a queer poet and writer committed to poking holes…

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