Saturday, November 17
8:30am-11:00am
Youth Programming--Free Community Session
8:45am-9:45am
Artful Futures: Visual Vocabularies with Soraya Jean-Louis
FREE community session--Please register!
10:00am -11:00am
KNOW New Orleans with Freddi Williams Evans
FREE community session--Please register!
9:15am-10:30am
How To Write a Query Letter
Author and Editor Johnnie Bernhard walks you through this all-important step in publishing
Words & Music Panel Pass--$10
10:00am-10:45am
New Orleans Next Generation of Literary Voices
Speakers: Students from 826 NOLA (formerly Big Class)
FREE community session--Please register!
11:00am-1:00pm
Venue: Drink Lab NOLA (upstairs from Victory)
Literature and Lunch--Don’t Read the Comments Section: NOLA Black Journalist talk Race, Fake News and Surviving the Industry
Moderator: David T. Baker
Literature and Lunch--$50
1:15pm
Film: Black Love as a Sustaining Force Post-Katrina by Kelly Harris-DeBerry
1:30pm-2:45pm
Black Dance in Louisiana: From Africa to Twerking
Speaker: Greer Mendy
Words & Music Panel Pass--$10
3:00pm-4:15pm
Words & Music Writing Competition Reading
Words & Music Panel Pass--$10
4:30pm-5:45pm
Publishing with a University Press
Moderator: TBA
Panelists: Johnnie Bernard, David Armand, Jack Bedell
Words & Music Panel Pass--$10
5:45pm-8:00pm
Enjoy an evening on the town!
8:00pm
Late Night Literature: Poetry Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Venue: Whiskey and Sticks
Poetry Tribute to Aretha Franklin--$10