Full 2024 Faulkner For All Schedule
September 27 - 29, 2024Welcome!
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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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