The 2020-2021 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Writing Contests Are Open

The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival's annual Writing Contests return early this year. The Creative Writing Contests are open April 1 and remain open until the various category deadlines in October.

Submissions are accepted in Poetry, One-Act Play, Fiction, and Very Short Fiction.
Tennessee Williams once said, "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory." While there is no prompt or theme for submissions, the TWFestival is asking writers this year why do you write? Now is an important time for writers, poets, and playwrights to reflect on why they were first drawn to the page and to bring that energy to their submissions. It is important to the TWFestival family to continue to foster the love and practice of creative writing in the literary community.

The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.