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RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)

One of the highlights of New Orleans literary calendar, the Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26) is celebrating its thirty-first year of festivities in 2017. Over its three decades, the festival has faithfully brought acclaimed poets, writers and playwrights from across the country down to the French Quarter, at once celebrating the rich legacy of its … RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)

The Conversation Literary Festival

The Conversation Literary Festival will take place in New Orleans from October 20th – October 22nd for a series of conversations all geared to answer the question: Can a Black Mecca exist in the American South? The festival’s aim is to place literary conversations in the living room, to remove the conference hall and give back to … The Conversation Literary Festival

THE WAVES presents: THE QUEER SOUTH, a book launch this Thursday, Jan. 22

Press Street is proud to host another installment of The Waves, one of the fastest-growing and most popular queer reading series in the nation, for an event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). This event celebrates the release of The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on … THE WAVES presents: THE QUEER SOUTH, a book launch this Thursday, Jan. 22