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…
Read MoreAriadne Blayde
Ariadne Blayde is a New Orleans-based author and playwright. Her debut novel, Ash Tuesday, is out from indie press April Gloaming. Her short fiction has won the Saints & Sinners LGBTQW+ Literary Festival Fiction Contest and the Quantum Shorts People’s Choice Prize, she has twice been a finalist for the Patty Friedmann Fiction Competition, and…
Read MoreMoira Crone
Moira Crone is the author of three novels and three books of stories, including The Not Yet, a dystopian tale set in the flooded ruins of New Orleans in the year 2121. A finalist for the Philip K Dick Award, an international prize for science fiction paperback of the year, the novel is widely taught…
Read MoreThe 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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TWFest 2027 is March 17 – 21! The VIP Pass is the best way to see all of our literary programming plus some evening events at TWF27! Treat yourself to the VIP experience! Our LitPasses are also available for the whole weekend or day-by-day. New to the Fest? See this Festival Programming Overview for more…
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 MoreJustin Torres
Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Southern California Book Award. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he’s also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the…
Read MoreGina Ferrara
Gina Ferrara is the current Poet Laureate of Louisiana. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Gyroscope Review, and Italian Americana. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans. Her sixth collection, The Rooted and Recurrent, is forthcoming from ULL Press.…
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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