David Hoover

Professor David Hoover has directed over 50 productions for the University of New Orleans during his career. Professionally he has acted and/or directed more than 50 productions in the New Orleans area. He has taught for over 37 years at the college level, 31 of which have been at UNO. He served as the chair…

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FRIDAY 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…

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SUNDAY – 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…

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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…

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M.A. Nicholson

M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, educator, journalist, and a co-founder of LMNL Arts. An alumna of Loyola University and a M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as an Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and…

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Skye Jackson

Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her work has been a finalist for the 2023 Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro…

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2024 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…

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2024 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…

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2024 TWFest Fiction Contest Finalists

Congratulations to our 2024 Fiction Contest Finalists. Thanks to our fiction judge, Margot Douaihy, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Story, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has published a scholarly…

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Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference

Friday, March 22, 2024 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…

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