Co-sponsored by NOCCA and Lusher High School, Litfest is open to Louisiana students in grades 8-12th. Events begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 18, at NOCCA (2800 Chartres Street). Students will attend a master class with Yuri Herrara and attend an open mic event. The festival features workshops for the students including: Screenwriting with Henry … New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival
Poet Rickey Laurentiis will give the keynote reading for the 9th annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Laurentiis is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry … Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10
