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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 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 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…
Read More2024 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
Read MoreWelcome, 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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Read More2023 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 …
Read More2023 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…
Read More2023 TWFest Poetry Finalists
Congratulations to our 2023 Poetry winner, runners-up, and finalists. Thank you to Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy for judging this year and to Dylan Church, our contest coordinator. From the top left moving left to right, they are: Brandon Blue is a black, queer, poet, educator, and MFA candidate at Arizona State University from…
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