The Festival is pleased to announce the first Poetry Contest. We will be accepting submissions by mail and online from April 15—August 15, 2010.

Grand Prize:

• $1,000
• VIP All Access Pass ($500 value) for the “CenTENNial” Festival: our 25th anniversary Festival and the 100th birthday celebration of Tennessee Williams: March 23—27, 2011
• Publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine
• Public Reading at the 2011 Festival

The Festival is pleased to announce our 2011 One-Act Play Contest. We will be accepting submissions by mail and online from June 1, 2010—November 1, 2010.

Grand Prize:

• $1,500
• Staged reading at the 2011 Festival (25th anniversary: March 23-27)
• Full production at the 2012 Festival
• VIP All-Access Festival pass for 2011 and 2012 ($1,000 value)
  
• Publication in Bayou

The Festival is pleased to announce our 2011 Fiction Contest. We will be accepting submissions by mail and online from June 1, 2010—November 15, 2010.

Grand Prize

• $1500
• Domestic airfare (up to $500) and French Quarter accommodations to attend the 2011 Festival in New Orleans
• VIP All-Access Festival Pass ($500 value)
• Public reading at the 2011 Festival (25th anniversary: March 23-27)
• Publication in Bayou

Kristen-Paige read "Polaroid" at the 2010 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and discussed her work onstage with acclaimed fiction writer and contest judge Jill McCorkle.

Robin read her story at the 2009 Festival, discussing her work onstage with Pulitzer-winning writer and contest judge Richard Ford.