WELCOME
TO:
FAULKNER HOUSE
624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, where Nobel Laureate
William Faulkner lived in 1925 while writing his first novel, Soldiers' Pay. Photo by Josephine Sacabo. The Faulkner House has been declared
a nional literary landmark since its renovation by owners Joseph
J. DeSalvo, Jr. and Rosemary James, Co-founders with W. Kenneth
Holditch of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc. For more
information on Faulkner in New Orleans, highlight: Faulkner.
THE
PIRATE'S ALLEY FAULKNER SOCIETY, INC.
The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society is a nationally recognized
non-profit arts organization sponsoring the renowned
Words & Music arts festival;
a prestigious writing competition; a literary journal; outreach
programs for high school and college students; continuing education
programming; and a year-round calendar of Meet
the Author and other events honoring and assisting
writers. The Society is an all volunteer organization operated
by professional men and women who love literature. It is recognized
by the Internal Revenue Service as a (501) (c) (3) literary and education institution and all contributions are tax
deductible. For mission and membership details, click here on Membership.
Events You Won't Want to Miss...
Save the Dates
June 29, 2008: My New Orleans Loves Good Girls and Bad Girls, featuring authors Nicole Kelby and Pamela Lott, both of whom have been finalists in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and are now having their books published.
Pamela Binnings Ewen, left, author of The Moon in the Mango Tree, and N. M. Kelby, author of Murder at the Bad Girls Bar & Grill, will be guests of honor Sunday, June 29 at a session of My New Orleans is...at 624 Pirate's Alley from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 504-524-2940 or by e-mailing us at Faulkhouse@aol.com. For more on these authors click first on Pamela and, then, on Nicole.
September 25, 2008: Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner: Faulkner Salutes Fitzgerald!
November 19, 2008: Annual Master Class for Creative Writing Students & Teachers
November 20-23: Words & Music, A Literary Feast in New Orleans
JULEPS IN JUNE
White linen and women in pretty summer dresses were the highlights of Juleps in June, 2008, the Faulkner Society's annual salute to summer in the city and fundraiser. Shown here from left to right, top, are Dr. Harold Stokes and and his wife Leslie Stokes; New Orleans landscape architect Peter Raarup, a member of the Gala committee, who decorated the garden for the event with party chair, Anne Pincus; Steve and Janet Haedicke of Monroe, LA; bottom lfeft to right, Yvonne Lafleur Walsh with her friend and architect, Ivan Mandich; and Lacey Kearney and Gabriela Hernandez, members of the party committee. For more information and photos, click here on Juleps.
THE
WILLIAM FAULKNER - WILLIAM WISDOM
CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION
William Faulkner
William
B. Wisdom
A national competition open to all writing in English; for
previously unpublished work, entries are accepted in seven categories: Novel, Novella,
Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story
by a High School Student. For more information on the competition, click here on Creative. For details and rules, click here on guidelines. For entry form, click here on Form
For recent success stories of the competition, click here on: Success.
WORDS
& MUSIC:
A LITERARY FEAST IN NEW ORLEANS
Confirmed Dates for Words & Music, 2008 are November 20-23. The 2008 theme is The American Dream, reflecting the current national debate on the validity of The American Dream today and who can buy into it. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald will bea focal point of theme discussions and the keynote speech, The Literature of The American Dream. will be delivered by the world's leading authorities on Fitzgerald and his contemporaries. Special Guest of honor will be American entrepreneur and environmental champion Ted Turner, who has revolutionized broadcast news and other aspects of communication and who is the contemporary embodiment of The American Dream. For additional information on
Words & Music, 08, scroll down and click here on: Words.
The Hotel Monteleone, a National Literary Landmark and the favorite inn for generations of writers, including William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, and Richard Ford, is a co-sponsor of Words & Music, 2008 and is among important venues for the festival.
MASTER CLASS
FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 1 p. m. at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Riverfront
2008 Annual Master Class for High School Students and Their Teachers
This year's session will explore the relevance of Fitzgerald's work in contemporary life and Why The Great Gatsby is the Perfect American Novel. For details on last year's event, sponsored by Faulkner Society member Jude Swenson, click here on: Master.
MY NEW ORLEANS IS...
My New Orleans is the name of a new series sponsored by the
Faulkner Society, designed like the anthology My New Orleans to highlight the various aspects of
the special persona of our city. Each event, zeroes
in on a facet of the city's unique character. For more information
about the series, including information about the last three
events of the year and previous events, click here on: MyNewOrleans. Many authors appearing at events of the My New Orleans series were among contributors to the anthology My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy by her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers. To order a copy, e-mail us or call Faulkner House Books, (504) 524-2940.
Edited by Rosemary James and published by Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, these love letters to New Orleans benefit the Faulkner Society. For an order blank and more information about the author and book, click here on: Ballads.
LIVE music for the My New Orleans series is
supported by a grant from the New
Orleans Musicians' Clinic, co-founded in 1998
by the clinic's director, Bethany Bultman and her husband, Johann Bultman.
Generous funding is provided to the New Orleans Music Clinic
by Jazz Aspen (www.wwoz.org/clinic).
The music clinic offers health services to New Orleans musicians
as well as assistance in finding paying gigs. One of the goals
of the My New Orleans series is to provide additional gigs for
New Orleans musicians struggling to remain in New Orleans now.
For more information on the plight of our musicians, click here
on NOMC. Help keep our
music alive! Hire a musician today.Another sponsor of live music for various Faulkner Society
events is The New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund.
The Hotel Monteleone, a principal venue of Faulkner Society projects, including Words & Music: A Literary Feast In New Orleans. It was William Faulkner's favorite hotel in
New Orleans and is a National Literary Landmark. Many authors
have used it as as setting in teir work, including Faulkner and
Tennessee Williams. The Arts Council of New Orleans regularly
underwrites programming of the Faulkner Society with Community Arts Grants and the Decentralized Arts Funding program. The Louisiana
State Museum regularly is a joint venture partner for literary events sponsored by the Faulkner Society in museum facilities. The Society also regularly presents programs in concert with The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, The Spanish and French Consuls, Louisiana State University's Creative Writing Program, Tulane University's Departments of English, Latin American Library, and Music, The Edgar Monroe Library of Loyola Uniersity, and New Orleans Center for Creative Writing, Riverfront.
THE
DOUBLE DEALER
The literary journal of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, The Double Dealer,
is published annually and traditionally initial release has been concurrent with Words & Music. The journal, established in 1993, is
created by high school and college interns working under the
supervision of adult writers in the Society. A group of unusually
talented creative writing interns were working with us on production
of the most recent edition. Their work and the work of other contributors
is found in the 2005-2006 double issue of The
Double Dealer issued in November, 2006. Memberships and private underwriting
help offset the cost of the journal.
The next edition of the journal will be published on line at this web site in early 2008. We anticipate issuing another double issue in print in November, 2008.
For more information, click
here on: Dealer.
Author Josh Emmons, appeared at Faulkner House, June 19th.
Josh Emmons, who lived her and taught at Loyola University before Katrina, is author of the new novel Prescription for a Superior Existence, an imaginative take on our failings and longings for meaning in life and our innermost desires to get in touch with ourselves on a higher plane. Emmons uses the vehicle of a cult religion and the doomsday predictions related to global warming and a lot of dark humor to get us thinging. If you were unable to attend his talk at Faulkner House, a few signed copies remained, and we recommend the book highly for summer reading. For a copy, call (504) 524-2940. A regular feature of the Faulkner Society's programming designed
to provide both support for writers and literary programming
for the general public is its annual calendar of Meet the Author signing parties
featuring readings by such important authors as Allan Gurganus, whose blockbuster novel The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All sold more than two million copies and was adapted as a film. For more information, click here on Meet the Author.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS
THE WORDS AND MUSIC WRITERS ALLIANCE
Many New Orleans area writers have asked for information about a writers’ group, a regular monthly program for writers who want to discuss their work with other writers to get feedback, advice, morale boosts, and inspiration.Writers interested in joining the alliance should contact Amy Serrano by e-mail, founder of the alliance. Her address is: AmySerrano5@aol.com.
THE KREWE OF LIBRIS
A carnival organization founded in 2006 to highlight literary traditions during the traditional Mardi Gras season of New Orleans. More more information, click here on Libris.
HOW TO CONTACT US
E-Mail: Faulkhouse@AOL.Com
Mail: 624 Pirate's Alley, New Orleans, La. 70116-3254
Phone: (504) 586-1609 or (504) 525-5615
Fax: (504) 522-9725
