TWFest Gala Honorees 2025

The mission of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is to nurture, support, and showcase writers, actors, musicians, and other artists. Our annual March festivals feature debut writers alongside acclaimed authors sharing their love of writing in craft sessions and creative conversations. Performing artists grace our stages in theatrical productions and musical performances.…

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2025 SASFest Feedback

We hope you enjoyed the 2025 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! (Looking for the TWFest 2025 Survey? CLICK HERE.)  

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2025 TWFest Feedback

We hope you enjoyed the 2025 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! (Looking for the SASFest 2025 survey? CLICK HERE.)  

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Scholarship Pass Program presented by The Helis Foundation

Thanks to a generous grant from The Helis Foundation, we are pleased to offer scholarship LitPasses to university/college students and faculty to the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival (TWFest) and the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival (SASFest)   The TWFest LitPass admits you to: All literary discussion panels at TWFest and SASFest.…

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Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference

Williams Research Center at the Historic New Orleans Collection 410 Chartres Street About the TWSC Founded in 1995, the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference is a full day of sessions led by highly acclaimed Williams scholars from across the US and abroad. As part of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, the TWSC coincides…

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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 during the main Festival.   Below are the performances at our last Festival in March of 2024. Schedule for 2025 coming later this year!   PERFORMANCES Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22 7:30…

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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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2025 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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