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.
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!
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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!
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!
Mark Your Calendars and come to our new annual member book party!
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023, 6:30 pm
Place: L’Union Française, 4522 Prytania Street, New Orleans
“The Poet Laureate acts as Louisiana’s literary ambassador, and Alison’s long record of teaching, sharing, and producing poetry that engages readers makes her a perfect fit as the preeminent poet of our state,” said Governor John Bel Edwards. “Her work is both beautifully crafted and appeals to a broad range of readers, and it will undoubtedly help elevate poetry in the public consciousness. She has been celebrated both statewide and nationally for good reason. Congratulations to Alison on this well-deserved honor.”
Pelegrin, a Covington resident, is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of Our Lady of Bewilderment (LSU Press, 2022), Waterlines (LSU Press, 2016), Hurricane Party (University of Akron Press, 2011), and Big Muddy River of Stars (University of Akron Press, 2007), which was the winner of the 2006 Akron Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Our Lady of the Flood won the Diode 2018 chapbook prize and an Eric Hoffer Award.
Pelegrin is the recipient of a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and an ATLAS Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, The Southern Review, and Ninth Letter, and as printable broadsides at Broadsided.