Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in…

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Writer’s Resolutions Retreat

WRITER’S RESOLUTIONS RETREAT Thanks to all of our attendees, speakers, and moderators for making our 2025 Writer’s Resolutions Retreat so inspiring and informative! We all left with new resolutions and goals for making 2025 our best writing year yet! FULL SCHEDULE 1 – 2:30 PM:  Write Every Day Begin the day with unbridled writing! We’ll…

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Adrian Van Young

Adrian Van Young is the author of the short story collection, The Man Who Noticed Everything (Black Lawrence Press), the novel, Shadows in Summerland (Open Road Media), and the short story collection, Midnight Self (Black Lawrence Press in October 2023). His fiction, non-fiction, and criticism have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature’s Recommended…

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Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings is a teacher, author, and performer living in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in strangehorizons.com, PodCastle, The Peauxdunque Review, Obsidian Lit, the Locus Award-winning Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, and in numerous anthologies. His debut collection, Here I Come and Other Stories was released in 2012. He also serves as MC…

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Carolyn Hembree

Carolyn Hembree‘s third poetry collection, For Today, was published by LSU Press. She has been awarded the Trio Award, the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, an ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, and grants and fellowships from PEN, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Southern Arts Federation. She is a professor in…

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Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey is the author of an award-winning debut collection of short fiction, The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2024). His nonfiction includes The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), Painter in a Savage Land (Random House, 2008) and The Island of Lost Maps (a national and international bestseller for Random…

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Chin-Sun Lee

Chin-Sun Lee is the author of the debut novel Upcountry (Unnamed Press 2023), and a contributor to the New York Times bestselling anthology Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press/Penguin 2014). Her work has also appeared in Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Georgia Review, and Joyland, among other publications. She writes, edits, and teaches in New…

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Welcome, Speakers!

We’re excited to welcome you to the 2025 TWFest lineup. The Festival kicks off on Sunday, March 23 with the Stella Shouting Contest and continues Wednesday, March 26 – Sunday, March 30. We want to make your experience as pleasant as possible, and we want to promote you to our website, newsletter, and social media…

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TWFest 2025 is March 26 – 30! Individual event tickets will go on sale in the Fall, but our Festival VIP Passes and LitPasses are on sale now! The VIP Pass is the best way to see everything you want at TWF24! Treat yourself to the full fest experience! It also makes a great gift…

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