Doug MacCash
Doug MacCash has been an arts and culture writer with The Times-Picayune newspaper and NOLA.com for more than 25 years. He shares in two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 2022, MacCash’s cultural history book titled Louisiana True: Mardi Gras Beads, was published by LSU Press. His upcoming book on…
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Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novel The Talented Ribkins, which received a 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her second novel, The Rib King, was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 and was a finalist for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In 2022 she…
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Richard Louth taught English literature and writing courses for 45 years as a Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he was founding Director of the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project. As founder of the “New Orleans Writing Marathon” (NOWM), he has led Writing Marathons in New Orleans and other cities across the country for…
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