TWFest Gala Honorees 2024
TWFest Gala Honorees 2025 The mission of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is to nurture, support, and showcase writers, actors, musicians, and other artists. Our annual March festivals feature debut writers alongside acclaimed authors sharing their love of writing in craft sessions and creative conversations. Performing artists grace our stages in…
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COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION a series of intimate literary events Thanks to everyone who attended our first Cocktails & Conversation on Thursday, October 10, the launch of our series of intimate literary gatherings. Our first event featured Peggy Scott Laborde and Poppy Tooker in conversation about the New Orleans culinary scene and dishes mentioned in the plays of Tennessee Williams. Guests enjoyed…
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TWFest Gala Thanks for a GREAT gala to all who made it such a fun night and a successful fundraiser! We’ll see you next year! The TWFest Gala took place in the beaux-arts style home of Tony Award winner John Cameron Mitchell. The home, known as The Temple, is a painstakingly restored side hall Italianate…
Read MoreDavid Hoover
Professor David Hoover has directed over 50 productions for the University of New Orleans during his career. Professionally he has acted and/or directed more than 50 productions in the New Orleans area. He has taught for over 37 years at the college level, 31 of which have been at UNO. He served as the chair…
Read MoreScholarship Pass Program presented by The Helis Foundation
Thanks to a generous grant from The Helis Foundation, we are pleased to offer scholarship LitPasses to university/college students and faculty to the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival (TWFest) and the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival (SASFest) The TWFest LitPass admits you to: All literary discussion panels at TWFest and SASFest.…
Read MoreM.A. Nicholson
M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, and educator. An M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and was Kenyon Review’s 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow. M.A. has work featured in Best…
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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 MoreThe Last Bohemia Fringe Festival
The Last Bohemia Fringe Festival, a program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, presents a series of performances during the main Festival. Below are the performances at our last Festival in March of 2024. Schedule for 2025 coming later this year! PERFORMANCES Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22 7:30…
Read MoreGeorge Bishop, Jr.
George Bishop, Jr., grew up in Louisiana, studied at Loyola, and then lived and taught for many years abroad, most recently in Japan and India. He now makes his home in the Bywater. His novel Letter to my Daughter was published by Random House in 2010. His second, The Night of the Comet, also with…
Read MoreSascha Rothchild
Sascha Rothchild is an Emmy award-winning writer, executive producer and showrunner who has written and produced the critically acclaimed global hits XO, Kitty, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Bold Type and GLOW to name a few. Sascha also adapted her LA Weekly cover article, “How To Get Divorced By 30,” about her failed first marriage, into…
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