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Thank you for agreeing to lead one of our free community writing workshops. Our event partner is Baldwin & Co., located at 1030 Elysian Fields Avenue. The form below captures the information we need for payment and to promote your session. You can submit this form multiple times, so don’t worry if you don’t have…
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TWFest 2025 is March 26 – 30! Refund Policy: We offer refunds on Festival Pass or Ticket purchases up until February 15 for the upcoming festival. Refunds do not include processing or credit card fees which are approximately 3% of any purchase. The VIP Pass is the best way to see everything you want at…
Read MoreMonique Jenkinson
Monique Jenkinson is an artist, choreographer, performer and writer whose work dwells at the intersection of contemporary dance and cabaret and considers the performance of femininity as a powerful, vulnerable and subversive act. Her alter-ego Fauxnique made herstory as the first cis-woman anywhere ever to be crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen and her solo performance…
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 MoreJohn Pope
John Pope has been a reporter in New Orleans since 1973. He was a member of The Times-Picayune team that won two Pulitzer Prizes and a George Polk Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. His books are Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from The Times-Picayune, Building on the Past: Saving Historic…
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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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SAINTS & SINNERS LGBTQ+ LITERARY FESTIVAL Held the same weekend as TWFest, our Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival (affectionately known as SASFest) is one of the longest-running festivals of its kind in the United States. Originally begun in 2003 as an AIDS education event, SASFest quickly grew into full-fledged festival status and will celebrate…
Read MoreMark Charney
Mark Charney earned his M.A. at the University of New Orleans and his Ph.D. from Tulane and is Chair of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He was Associate Director of the National Critics Institute for the O’Neill Theatre Center for 19 years and is Professor Emeritus at Clemson University. His play The Power…
Read MoreMichael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels: A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as a story collection, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and a book of nonfiction, Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. The Hours won…
Read MoreBenjamin Morris
Benjamin Morris, a native of Mississippi, is the author of Coronary (Fitzgerald Letterpress, 2011), Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A History of the Hub City (Arcadia/History Press, 2014), and Ecotone (Antenna, 2017). He holds an MSc in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and among other honors has received a Pushcart nomination, the Academy…
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