WNBA-NOLA Marks Banned Books Week
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UNSILENCED VOICES: Celebrating Banned Books
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WNBA Members Featured at Poetry Buffet
WNBA Members Constance Adler, Stacey Balkun, Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, Gina Ferrara, Mona Lisa Saloy and WNBA-NOLA President Anne Babson read their poetry and prose at the Poetry Buffet at the Latter Library on August 3rd. The Poetry Buffet is a monthly reading series curated by poet Gina Ferrara which happens the first Saturday of most months, 2pm CST, either at the Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library or online.
Visit WNBA-NOLA at 8/28 Culture Collision!
We’ll be at Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie again this year. Visit our table on August 28 for info on upcoming events and activities!
Support WNBA-NOLA on GiveNOLA Day May 7!
Want to learn more and support WNBA-NOLA on GiveNOLA Day May 7. Click on the link here: https://www.givenola.org/wnbanola
Tennessee Williams Festival is March 20-24!
The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is a New Orleans affair for readers, writers, & theatre lovers!
Join WNBA-NOLA members at these literary panels, theatre events, author interviews, literary walking tours, culinary & cocktail events, and music events. And don’t forget the Stella/Stanely Shouting Contest kicking it all off on Sunday, March 17! Join award-winning writers, historians, scholars, journalists, actors, musicians, and cultural experts for five days of literary revelry in the lush Bohemia of New Orleans.
See this Festival Programming overview, check out last year’s Festival program book, and watch the 2023 Festival Highlight Reel below to get a taste of what TWFest is all about.
Ready to start dreaming up the perfect Festival schedule? Click the button below to see a printable, chronological 2024 Schedule of Events!
WNBA-NOLA Panel Presentation at 2023 LA Book Festival!
On Saturday, October 28 at 9 am, The Women’s National Book Association of New Orleans presented our first-ever panel at The Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge.
On the Fifth Floor of the State Library , Capitol View Room, we presented a discussion entitled:
Supernatural Laundry: Louisiana Women Poets Engaged in Domestic Fabulism.
The discussion began with a brief interview with Stacy Balkun, a founding mother of contemporary domestic fabulism in the South, followed by readings by Pamela Ebel, Gina Ferrara, Melinda Palacio and Anne Babson.
The group mingled with notable state poets and authors, and also signed books under the Cavalier House Books tent.
WNBA-NOLA Celebrates Authors with New Books!
Several WNBA-NOLA members who published books within the past year were feted on October 20 at our 2nd Annual Book Launch Party at L’Union Francaise in New Orleans. Former Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy, Gina Ferarra, Hazel Denhart and Anne Babson presented their works. Many thanks to writing class students from Southeastern University for their help and to Nicole Eiden for the sweet treats from Windowsill Pies!
