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Full 2024 Faulkner For All Schedule


September 27 - 29, 2024

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Faulkner For All 

2024 Theme: 

Diversity As Inspiration for Life & Literature
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
—William Faulkner

Venues: 

·      The Beauregard – Keyes House, 1110 Chartres Street

·      Hotel Provincial, 1024 Chartres Street

·      St Mary’s and the Ursuline Convent, 1100 Chartres Street

 

Friday, September 27

11am – BK House, Main Floor
Registration, book sales, and casual lunch, catered by Pigeon.


12:30pm – BK House, Main Floor

Welcome remarks

Rosemary James, co-founder, Faulkner Society


12:45pm – BK House, Main Floor

If You Want to Find the Truth in These Troubling Times, Read Fiction

Thomas Mallon - Bestselling author

 

2pm – BK House, Main Floor

Diversity of Characters in the Work of William Faulkner

Lawrence William Coates – Faulkner scholar

3pm – 4pm – Intermission

4:15pm – BK House, Main Floor

New Orleans is Like Napoleon’s Army. It Moves on Its Stomach

Liz Williams, founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum

Chef Dwynesha “Dee” Lavigne, founder of Deelightful Roux School of Cooking

Marcelle Bienvenu, Queen of Arcadian Cuisine

 

6:15pm – BK House, Main Floor

2024 Welcome Party

Catered by Jean Pierre Pigeon and his staff, led by Lea Freeman. Food will represent three cultures—Afro-Caribbean, Sicilian, and Acadian—with some items prepared from Marcelle’s recipes.

Saturday, September 28

8:30am – Hotel Provincial, Meeting Room 

Continental breakfast for registered festival guests 

9am Hotel Provincial, Meeting Room

Keynote for Writers: Don’t Be Afraid of Variety

Ellis Anderson, publisher, French Quarter Journal

Jeff Kleinman, agent and founding partner, Folio Literary Management

 

10:30am BK House, Main Floor

 

Diversity is Going to the Dogs…and, Yes, You Cat Ladies, Other Characters of the Animal Kingdom Such as Mules and Including One Especially Charming Fox

Rosemary James, co-founder, Faulkner Society

Olivia Grey Pritchard, photographer, Mutts: A Celebration of Mystery Mixed Breeds

Bill Lavender, editor, Dogs In My Life: The Photographs of John Tibule Mendes

Catherine Raven, author, Fox and I, An Uncommon Relationship

Cindy Spiegel, editor and co-founder, Spiegel & Grau

 

11:45am BK House, Main Floor

Turning Diverse Addictions and Afflictions Into Special Interest Literary Art

Rosemary James, co-founder, Faulkner Society

Susan Schadt, publisher, Susan Schadt Press

Marcelle Bienvenu, Queen of Acadian Culture

Randy Denman, author, Slow Ride 

Andy Plattner, author, Terminal

 

1:15pm Hotel Provincial, Meeting Room
Casual lunch

Arts as an Instrument and Catalyst to Achieve Justice

Lynn Ditchfield, Ph.D., teacher and author, Borders to Bridges: Arts-Based Curriculum for Social Justice and Visionary Voices for Social Justice Education

2:30 pm – Hotel Provincial Meeting Room

Mentoring the Poets

Bill Lavendar, publisher, poet, author

Patrick Reardon, poet, author Every Marred Thing: A Time in America (winner of the 2024 gold medal for best poetry collection)

Gail Waldstein, poet, one of four authors of collection The Four Faces of Eve

Margaret Guilbert, poet, author of collection Dream Ceremony, Alabama Porch

Janet Ford, poet, winner of the gold medal for best Individual Poem, My Mother Stands on Her Feet for the Last Time

Concurrent programming

2:30 pm BK House, Main Floor|

Telling Tales of the Marginalized

Justin Brouckeart, agent, Aevitas Creative Management

Michael Sadowski, author, Indiana Queer

Gail Waldstein, author, Warehousing the Elderly

Yoruba Batrip-Coleman, author, Tangles, Knots and Knaps

Lisa Porter, author, In Search of the Thickest Towel

 

4:30 to 5:30 pm —BK House, Main Floor

War, Cold or Hot, and Politics, Sweet or Sour, and Spying Have Been the Strongest Source of Inspiration for Literature Throughout the Ages and These Topics Are Still Going Strong. Why?

Laura Gross, agent, Laura Gross Literary Agency

Michael Ditchfield, author, No Such Agency

Jon Geggenheimer, author, Churchill vs. Hitler

Sunday, September 29

8:30am – Hotel Provincial, Meeting Room 

Continental breakfast for registered festival guests 

 

9am Hotel Provincial, Meeting Room

If It’s on the Internet, It’s Mine!

Thomas Mallon, author, Fellow Travelers, Landfall and Mrs. Paine’s Garage

 

10:30am BK House, Main Floor

How Ethnic Groups and Growing-Up Environments Inform the Work of Writers and Affect Acceptance of Their Work

Lisa Leshne, agent, The Leshne Agency

David Brennan, author, A New Kind of Flame Kindles in America

Daniel Turtel, author, Greetings From Ashbury Park and The Family Morfawitz

David Alan Pelzer, author, The Blue Guitar

 

11:45am – BK House, Main Floor
When Current World Crazy-Making Clamor Make You Long to Get Away, History Offers Diverse Escape Exits for Readers and Writers of All Genres

Deborah Grosvenor, agent and author

Ellen Coggeshall, author, A Tale of Five Tigers

Patrick Earl Ryan, author, Fancy Gumbo, New Orleans Stories 

David Levene, author, The Buccaneers’ King

Steve Cash, author, The Card

Nancy Dixon, author, N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature

 

1:00 pm BK House, Main Floor

Flannery O’Connor

Lawrence William Coates, Faulkner scholar and author
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, O’Connor scholar and author of the new book,
Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan

 

2:30 pm BK House, Main Floor

The Poet’s Life is an Odyssey of Discovery and Desire to Use Art to Instill in Others the Desire for Discovery

William Lavender, publisher, Lavender Ink

Jessica Kennison, co-founder, New Orleans Writers Workshop

Patrick T. Reardon, poet, Every Marred Thing: A Time in America

Mona Lisa Saloy, former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, Black Creole Chronicles: Poems

Andy Young, poet, Museum of the Soon to Be Departed

Roger Kamenetz, poet, The Jew in the Lotus

Janet Ford, poet, My Mother Stands on Her Feet for the Last Time

7pm – St. Mary’s Chapel, Ursuline Convent

The 34th Annual Meeting of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society

Performance and Gala


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