M.A. Nicholson
M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, educator, journalist, and a co-founder of LMNL Arts. An alumna of Loyola University and a M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as an Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and…
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Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her work has been a finalist for the 2023 Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro…
Read More2024 One-Act Contest Finalists
Congratulations to our 2024 One-Act Contest Finalists. Thanks to our one-act judge, Peter Hagan, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: William Brasse has forayed fearlessly into a variety of literary forms and genres. Plays, novels, short stories; comedy, drama, history, biography, myth. He has…
Read More2024 TWFest Poetry Contest Finalists
Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Contest Finalists. Thanks to our poetry judge, Stephanie Burt, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: Ezra Adamo is a student from New Orleans; he was a runner-up in 2021 and a finalist in 2022 for the Saints & Sinners…
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Congratulations to our 2024 Fiction Contest Finalists. Thanks to our fiction judge, Margot Douaihy, and our contest coordinator, James Giltenan. Pictured above from the top, left to right, our finalists are: Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Story, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has published a scholarly…
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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 coincides…
Read MoreBrenda Murphy
Brenda Murphy is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and past president of the American Theatre and Drama Society. Her scholarly work reflects her interest in placing American drama, theater, and performance in the broader context of American literature and culture. Among her books are The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (2014)…
Read MoreAriadne Blayde
Ariadne Blayde is a playwright and fiction writer based in America’s last true bohemia, New Orleans. Her first novel, Ash Tuesday, is out from indie press April Gloaming, and her play The Other Room is produced around the world. Her short stories have won contests including the Saints and Sinners Fiction Prize and the Quantum Shorts…
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David R. Slayton (He/Him) grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver and writes the books he always wanted to read. His debut, White Trash Warlock, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In 2015,…
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Moira Crone, a New Orleanian, has published six books of fiction and her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Oxford American, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her novels are Period of Confinement, The Ice Garden( 2016), winner of the Independent Booksellers Gold Medal, and The Not Yet (2012, 2024), finalist for the Philip K…
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