Saints and Sinners Literary Festival 2014

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival (http://sasfest.org) is four days of publishing news, workshops and panels from internationally known writers, publicists, publishers, agents and booksellers.  Don’t miss this chance to exchange information and swap stories with fellow industry favorites from around the world. Don’t miss the chance to travel to New Orleans! Enjoy and share the bowls of gumbo, late nights in dark jazz clubs, and strolls through historic neighborhoods as you connect with the literary landscape of the city.

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival

Fifth Annual Short Fiction Contest

The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the LGBT community. It was also formed to bring the LGBT literary community together to celebrate the literary arts.

Now in its ninth year, the Festival has grown into an internationally-recognized event that brings together a who’s who of LGBT publishers, writers and readers from throughout the United States and beyond. The Festival, held over 4 days each Spring, feature panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBT literature.

We do everything we can to make sure that we create the best Festival possible and our home base in the French Quarter of New Orleans offers a singular environment to an equally singular Festival. Even our conference hotel, the Hotel Monteleone, is an official Literary Landmark—eternalized by Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway in their writing and their personal trips to the Crescent City. While at the hotel for the Festival, why not stop by the famed Carousel Bar, a favorite haunt of Williams? It’s said that Williams found inspiration for this characters from the Carousel guests. Who knows? You many find your very own Stanley or Stella sitting next to you sipping a Ramos Gin Fizz at the Carousel Bar.

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