Festival Welcome Kit
Festival Welcome Kit Welcome to the Tennessee Williams Festival! Whether you’re brand new and needing a place to start, or a returning Festival veteran looking to make your next Fest even better, you’ve come to the right place. Browse below to find out how to have your best festival experience and make the most of…
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The 2026 Festival We loved celebrating our 40th anniversary with you! Browse below to see our 2026 Program, Schedule, and Speaker lineup. Then, check out some of our favorite photos from TWFest 2026! SPEAKERSPROGRAM BOOKSCHEDULE Photo Credit: Ride Hamilton, Reine Dugas, and Nancy Gorman Thank you to all of our amazing sponsors! Stay up to…
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Festival Information All About TWFest26 (opens in new tab) Learn all about TWF26 including our speakers, schedule, and program book cover. Plus, browse a photo gallery of Festival highlights! (opens in new tab) New Here? Check Out Our Welcome Kit (opens in new tab) Find info on transportation, our host hotel, tips on how to…
Read MoreThe Last Bohemia
New Orleans is “one of the last frontiers of Bohemia” and “my favorite place to write.” —Tennessee Williams, interview with Pen Wilson, 1955 The Last Bohemia is a series of theatre, music, and social events embodying New Orleans culture, the spirit of Tennessee Williams, and the profound effect New Orleans had on the playwright, personally…
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FESTIVAL PHOTOS Maurice Carlos Ruffin & Skye Jackson in book fair by Sabrina Harper Otherworldly Fiction Panel, 2024 by Ride Hamilton Michael Cunningham Book Signing, 2024 by Ride Hamilton Maureen Corrigan, Michael Cunningham, Justin Torres by Reine Dugas Jacob Storms as Tennessee Williams, 2024 by Ride Hamilton Leslie Castay, Opening Night 3 credit Ride Hamilton…
Read MoreTWFest Gala Honorees 2024
TWFest Gala Honorees 2024 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…
Read MoreTWFest Gala
TWFest Gala Thursday, November 20, from 7 to 9 pm at the Hotel Peter and Paul, 2317 Burgundy Street, New Orleans. You all really turned out for our 2nd annual Tennessee Williams Gala! Photos coming soon! Thank you to all of our sponsors and guests: Music by DJ Sailor Hank and the Delta Revues Royal…
Read More2026 TWFest Feedback
We hope you enjoyed the 2026 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival. We’d love to hear from you! The survey below provides us with vital information for our grants, grant reports, and for future planning. Please answer as many of the questions as you have time for, and thank you for sharing your experience…
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 MoreSkye Jackson
Skye Jackson’s work has appeared in RHINO, Palette Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize and was the recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Award. She currently serves as a Visiting Writer at Xavier University and was appointed the Writer-in-Residence of…
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