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Sep.29.2011
Imagine for a moment – five days in New Orleans – a city with so much creative energy you can practically feel it breathing beside you, like William Faulkner must have felt when lived there and wrote Soldier’s Pay.
Then imagine 16 of the nation’s best and brightest agents and editors… AND...
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Nov.14.2010
The Faulkner Society’s Words & Music festival will open November 17 and adjourn following our Tall Tales Competition led this year by raconteur, humorist, and author Ken Wells
Many writers have asked questions about the writers’ packages. The writers’ tuition packages include: A manuscript...
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Nov.07.2010
Besides over a dozen of the nation’s best and brightest agents and editors, this year’s Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans boasts no less than 75 author and scholar faculty members, the largest gathering of gliterati EVER in the Big Easy. The list includes:
Gregory Anderson, MD...
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Sep.26.2010
Rebecca Wells, the much loved Louisiana actress, playwright, and author, will do a performance reading of her short story from the new anthology Best of LSU Fiction. Ms. Wells is a committed, vocal activist in the crusade against wars.
The author has graciously accepted our invitation to...
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Aug.30.2010
624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, where Nobel Laureate William Faulkner lived in 1925 while writing his first novel, Soldiers' Pay. Photo by Josephine Sacabo.
When disaster strikes, writers write. That's no secret. But a well-kept secret, at least outside the writing community, is why so many...
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Aug.30.2010
624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, where Nobel Laureate William Faulkner lived in 1925 while writing his first novel, Soldiers' Pay. Photo by Josephine Sacabo.
When disaster strikes, writers write. That's no secret. But a well-kept secret, at least outside the writing community, is why so many...
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Aug.28.2010
On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Sunday, August 29th, the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society will present readings of Katrina-related literature, featuring Times Picayune social editor and well known New Orleans actress Nell Nolan; noted literary fiction writer and poet John Biguenet,...
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May.04.2010
Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans (November 17 - 21, 2010) has issued a Call for Papers on The Literature of War & Collateral Damage.
The 2010 Humanities theme is The Literature of War & Collateral Damage. The conference offers programming designed for multiple audi...
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Oct.06.2009
Let me tell you, it’s an amazing undertaking to put together a readers and writers conference that brings together the best contemporary authors, agents and editors, plus musical talent, all while honoring classic literature. But Faulkner Society’s Rosemary James and agent Michael Murphy have done...
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Nov.29.2008
It was a delightful four days spent in New Orleans at the recent Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, and if you're a writer and haven't yet been there, all I can say is, "Get There SOON!"
It wasn't just the phenomenal group of gathered editors and agents, though I have to...
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