Festival Programming
Get to know our programming: Writer’s Craft Series Our Writer’s Craft Series features award-winning writers sharing their experience and expertise. Open to the public, it is perfect for writers of any skill level, as well as literary lovers who want to hear their favorite author speak. The usual schedule is four sessions on Thursday and…
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2024 TWFest Program Book 2023 TWFest Program Book 2022 TWFest Program Book Our big in-person return! It was so good to…
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Festival Tickets Jump to: VIP Pass Literary Discussions Saints and Sinners Multi-Event Passes Writer’s Craft Sessions Scholar’s Conference Special Events Music Events Theatre Events Walking Tours TENNESSEE WILLIAMS NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL VIP PASS Includes these events March 22 – 26, 2023: Writer’s Craft sessions Thursday and Friday All literary discussions Friday-Sunday Scholars Conference on…
Read MorePeggy Scott Laborde
Peggy Scott Laborde has been the senior producer for the New Orleans PBS station, WYES-TV, since 1987. She has produced over 35 documentaries, including A Conversation with Tennessee Williams and, most recently, Literary New Orleans. She is the recipient of a Suncoast Emmy Award. Laborde also produces and hosts Steppin’ Out, New Orleans’ only weekly…
Read MoreJ.M. Redmann
J.M. Redmann has published twelve novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her most recent is The Smallest Day. Her first was published in 1990, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. Her books have won multiple awards, including three Lambda Literary awards and the Publishing Triangle’s Joseph Hansen Award. Her third book, The Intersection…
Read MoreTimothy Schaffert
Timothy Schaffert is the author of seven novels, most recently The Titanic Survivors Bookclub and The Perfume Thief. His graphic novel set in the 1950s romance comics industry, Easy To Love, will be released next year. He is the Glenna Luschei Editor in Chief of the Prairie Schooner literary journal, the Adele Hall Professor of…
Read MoreMaurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of the 2024 national bestselling novel, The American Daughters, and the 2022 short story collection, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, both published by One World Random House. Both books were New York Times Editor’s Choices and were selected to represent Louisiana at the National Book Festival…
Read MoreBess Rowen
Dr. Bess Rowen is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, and affiliated faculty in Gender & Women’s Studies and Irish Studies. She is the author of The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and the editor of the Methuen Critical Edition of A Streetcar Named…
Read MoreJohn “Ray” Proctor
Dr. Thomas “Ray” Proctor is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Tulane University with a Ph.D. in Theatre Research (University of Wisconsin Madison).Performances include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (The Organic Theatre), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Arizona Repertory Theatre), Othello (The Greenbriar), Airline Highway and Father Come Home from the Wars (Southern Rep).…
Read MoreCammie McGovern
Cammie McGovern is the author of The Last Letters of Sally and Walter (2026), a Target Book of the Month pick, and Hard Landings (2021), a memoir about her autistic son’s transition into adult services at the age of 22. She has also written six books for young adults and middle grade readers, most of…
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