Schedule:
Words & Music, A LIterary
Feast in New Orleans, 2004
Sponsored by The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society with Major Funding
by The Arts Council of New Orleans and The Louisiana Division
of The Arts; Faulkner House, Inc.; The Fertel Foundation; Catherine
Hill, The Historic New Orleans Collection, International House
Hotel, The Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation; Landmark
Canal Place Cinemas, The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities;
The Lupin Foundation; Marie Shannon Monroe, ; The Visiting Committee
of the Monroe Library of Loyola University New Orleans; Nancy
& Hartwig Moss, III; The Hotel Monteleone; National Endowment
for the Arts; New Orleans Film Festival; New Orleans Tourism Marketing
Corporation; E. Quinn Peeper; The Ritz-Carlton Hotelt; H. Paul
St. Martin and Martin-St. Martin Publishing; Ron Shelton; Bertie
Deming Smith; Julie Smith; The Whitney National Bank; and The
Windsor Court Hotel.
Highlights, Words &
Music, 2004
Following are highlights of the programming being planned for
2003. Planning is not yet complete. We wil be adding to the schedule
as events are finalized and faculty are committed.
Words & Music is sponsored by The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc , recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a (501) (c) (3) non-profit literary and educational organization. The Society's mission is to provide realistic support to developing writers , to help preserve the art of the written word, and to enhance the image of the region as an important cultural destination.
The dates for Words & Music, 2004 are December 2-6. The conference opens at 8 a. m. with coffee and welcome remarks on Thursday, December 2 and continues through the final session of Literature and Lunch on December 8.
Words & Music, 2003 has a full five days of round table discussions by some of the finest writers and editors in the country. The discussions include sessions for the general public, serious writers and their readers, and students of creative writing. They are grouped as follows:
Humanities Series, sessions devoted to an annual theme, as applied to literature and life. This year the theme is The New Jazz Age. The discussions will revolve around the atmosphere of uncertainty which exists when war is both an emotional memory of the not too distant past and is also looming on the horizon. Discussions will zero in on a comparison of life today and life in Faulkner's time between the two world wars, Lives on Hold. A significant segment of the humanities series annually is given over to writing about music and the impact of music on creative prose.
Manuscript Critiques & One-on-one Consultations
Writing samples are submitted in advance, critiqued by
well-known editors and agents. Agents and editors who critique
manuscripts meet with participants in one-on-one sessions to offer
their advice. Times and places for daily consultations are arranged
in advance of the conference.
Perfect Words Book Mart
Sponsored by Bookstar/ Barnes & Noble
Books by participating members of the faculty will be on sale
daily at the Perfect Words Book Mart in the Queen Anne
Parlor adjacent to the primary discussion hall on the mezzanine
floor of the Hotel Monteleone. Please buy lots of books, as book
sales benefit the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, creator of
Words & Music. Authors will make themselves available
for signing immediately after each of their appearances. As we
have a very tight schedule, we ask that members of the audience
purchase books for various sessions in advance of an author's
appearance.
Thursday, December 2, 2004
7:00 AM
Hotel Monteleone, 200 Royal Street, Queen Anne Room
Café au Lait and Croissants
8:00 AM
Queen Anne Ballroom
Faulkner Society founders Rosemary James, Joseph DeSalvo, and
Kenneth Holditch and Chairman Catherine P. Hill welcome participants.
8:30 AM
Queen Anne Ballrom
The Aesthetics of Literature
Beautiful Bookends: Great Beginnings and Endings
9:45 AM
Queen Anne Ballroom
Master Class: Literary Fiction
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11:00 AM Queen
Anne Ballroom
The Aesthetics of Literature
The Ear of the Author: Translating experiences with
sound into word images
12:15 PM
Literature & Lunch
3:00 PM
International House Ballroom
Master Class: Fiction
4:00 PM
Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal, Counting Room
Music of the 20th Century
7:30 p. m.
Annual Concert
The Romantics of Modernism
Gala featuring food and wine follows concertn
Friday, December 3, 2004
7:00 AM Queen
Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone
Café au Lait and Croissants
7:45 AM Queen
Ballroom and Break-Out Rooms
Master Class: Getting and Working with
An Agent
9:00 AM Queen
Ballroom and Break-Out Rooms
AgentWorkshops: By Prior Assignment
11:00 AM International
House Ballroom
Opening Session, Humanities Theme Series:
100 Years After Bloom's Day.
Cash bar opens at 11:45; Luncheon Service at 12:30
Literature & Lunch
Gatsby and Daisy and Farewell to Arms
2:00 PM
International House Ballroom
Master Class: The Illustrated Novel
3:30 PM
International House Ballroom
Odyssey:
Exploring the Impact of the Classics on Contemporary
Life, Literature & Creativity
The Faulkner Society is pleased to announce that each year during
Words & Music, there will be a round table discussion
devoted to the influence of the culture of ancient Greece, which
engineered the foundation of Western civilization: fiction, poetry,
and drama; philosophy and debate; music; art, architecture, and
interior design; and affinity for fashion and fine food and wine.
In literature especially, classics such as The Illiad and
The Odyssey provide the comfort of familiar excellence
to fall back on in uncertain times. This year's session will explore
the inspiration of the classics for the James Joyce turn of the
century blockbuster Ulysses.
5:00 PM Queen Anne Ballroom
Master Class Poetry
6:30 PM Venue
to be announced
The Muse on the Mississippi
9:00 PM
Napoleon House
After Hours at the Napoleon House
Saturday, December 4, 2004
7:00 AM Queen
Anne Ballroom
Ca fé
au Lait and Croissants
7:45 AM
Queen Anne Ballroom
Master Class: Working With Your Editor
Once your book is sold, the most important person
in your life will be the editor assigned to you by the publisher.
The editor can make or break your book. Learning to get
the most out of this important relationship is a must.
7:45AM
Meeting Room, Monateleone
Workshop: Getting Your Poetry Published
Chapbooks, First; Then, Collections!
Given the difficulties in obtaining agents, publishers, and editors
for poetry,
Words & Music has invited two prize-winning, widely
published poets, to critique poetry submitted in a workshop format,
which also will deal with how to get poetry published. s and agents,
as well, by advance appointments.
10:00 A. M.
The Hollywood Experience
Sponsored by the Fertel Foundation and Randy Fertel; co-sponsored
by The New Orleans Film Festival
12:30 PM
Note: Cash bar opens at 12:30; luncheon begins promptly
at 1:00
Literature & Lunch
3:00 PM Queen
Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone
Master Class: Screenwriting
4:15 PM
Queen Anne Ballroom
Theme Series
5:30 PM
International House Ballroom
The Aesthetics of Literature
Dream State: Place as A Principal Character in Prose
6:45 PM
Riverview Room
Annual Tall Tales Competition
8:30 PM
Free Evening to enjoy the sights and sounds and tastes of New
Orleans.
Sunday, December 5, 2003
8:00 AM
Queen Anne Ballroom,
Café au Lait and Croissants
9:00 AM
Queen Anne Ballroom,
Spiritual Journeys
11:30 AM
Mouthwatering Words About Food
1:00 PM
Literature & Lunch
2:30 PM
Special Master Class for Readers
How to Read Faulkner and Love It!
What inspired all of that modernist sound and fury?
3:45 PM
International House Ballroom
Worth a Thousand WordsAnd Vice Versa
The inspiration of visual art for writers and the
inspiration of literature for visual artists.
5:45 PM
A Gallery of Fine Photography
The Muse on the Mississippi
8:00 PM
Queen Anne Ballroom, Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street
Faulkner For All: The Jazz Age Dance
Black Tie Dinner Dance, Fundraiser, Annual Meeting
of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society
Featuring the Faulkner Society's toastmaster, James Gordon Bennett.
Attire: Men, Black tie; Women, Scandalous Dance dresses from Faulkner's
Jazz Age era. Presentation of Gold Medals to winners of The William
Faulkner William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Monday, December 6, 2003
8:30 AM
International House Ballroom, 220 Camp Street (just across the
street from the International House Hotel), Second Floor
Café au Lait and Croissants
9:00 AM
International House Ballroom
Master Class: Non Fiction Picture
Books
10:15 AM
International House Ballroom
Master Class: The Making of a Mystery
Murder Most Foul
Ace Atkins is author of the new mystery Dirty South coming
from HarperCollins/Morrow in March. Advance reading copies
of the book will be presented during the conference. He
will lead this panel with Greg Herren, Murder in the Rue Dauphine;
Julie Smith, whose newest novel, Mean Woman Blues features
the quirky debutante turned detective, Skip Langdon; and Ken Mask,
whose debut mystery novel, Murder at the Butt, has a fascinating
rhythm and literary style;
11:30 AM International
House Ballroom
New Orleans Mon Amour
1:00 PM
Galatoire's, 209 Bourbon Street
Literature & Lunch
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
10:00 AM
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Riverfront, 2800 Chartres
Street
Annual High School Master Class for Creative Writing Students