C.S. Harris
C.S. Harris is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 30 novels, including the Sebastian St. Cyr historical mystery series. As C.S. Graham she co-authored a contemporary thriller series with former intelligence officer Steven Harris; she has also published historicals under her own name, Candice Proctor. A respected scholar with a PhD in 18th…
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Festival Information Welcome to the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival! Below, find all that you need to know about our 2025 Festival, including our events, ticketing, and so much more. Learn about our speakers and all the ways you can get involved with the Festival, and stay up to date on all our…
Read More2025 Writer’s Resolutions Retreat
Link to 2025 Writer’s Resolutions Session Leader Bios SESSION 1: Write Every Day Begin the day with unbridled writing! We’ll review some of the best research on writing practice and do some writing together. Then we’ll apply some techniques to uncover what’s really happening on the page. Leader: C. Morgan Babst. NOTES Adopt the idea of “Worship…
Read MoreJulia Ridley Smith
Julia Ridley Smith is the author of Sex Romp Gone Wrong (Blair), a short story collection, and The Sum of Trifles (University of Georgia Press), a memoir about cleaning out her antique-dealer parents’ house, grief, and what the objects we live with mean to us. Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Electric…
Read MoreAngie Kim
Angie Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls, a GMA and Barnes & Noble book club pick, winner of the Virginia Literary Award, and Oprah Daily’s #1 novel of 2023. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award and was named one of the 100 best mysteries and thrillers of…
Read MoreJustin Maxwell
Justin Maxwell teaches playwriting in the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. His playwriting book The Playwright’s Toolbox was published by Applause Books in May 2024. Currently, he’s adapting Tennessee Williams’ novel Moise and the World of Reason into a full-length play. His “100 MDQs for Plays of Praise” was presented as…
Read MoreBoyce Upholt
Boyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is the author of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking…
Read MoreKate Segriff
Kate Segriff (she/her) is stunningly awkward but has an excellent game face. She is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker, and her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Greensboro Review, Prism International, and Best Canadian Poetry, among others. She won the Edinburgh Story Prize, the London Independent Story Prize, and the Connor Prize for Poetry, among…
Read MoreMarcie R. Rendon
Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation. Rendon is the best-selling author of Where They Last Saw Her (Penquin/Random House), and the Pinckley Prize author of Murder on the Red River in the Cash Blackbear series, the most recent of which is Broken Fields (Soho Press). Rendon’s poetry, Anishinaabe Songs…
Read MoreMari Kornhauser
Mari Kornhauser is an award-winning writer/director/playwright who splits their time between Southern Louisiana and Southern California. Mari has had three feature films produced, and their produced television credits include episodes of HBO’s Peabody Award-winning Treme. They have written on assignment for studios, actors, producers, and directors. A tenured Full Professor in the Creative Writing Program…
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