WORDS & MUSIC:
A Literary Feast in New Orleans
November 9 - 13, 2011
New and established writers join dedicated readers in a unique multi-arts festival sponsored by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc., created in 1990 on William Faulkner’s birthday by men and women dedicated to good books and their authors, including Nobel Laureate William Faulkner, who wrote his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, in New Orleans.
Faulkner Society events
are made possible in part by important support from The Arts Council
of New
Orleans and the Decentralized Arts Funding Program of The
Louisiana
Division of the Arts; Bertie Deming Smith and the Deming
Foundation; Randy Fertel and the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation; The Hearst Corporation and Debra Shriver; the J. J. and Dr. Donald Dooley Fund and Samuel L. Steele, III, Administrator; Michael Harold, E.Quinn Peeper and
the English Speaking Union; Rosemary James, Joseph J. DeSalvo, Jr., and Faulkner House, Inc;
Arthur & Mary Davis, Quint Davis, and Pam Friedler; Alexa Georges; the Louisiana State Museum;The State Library of Louisiana; Hotel Monteleone; Mr. &
Mrs.
Hartwig Moss, III; Theodosia M. Nolan, Tia and James Roddy, and Peter Tattersall; Parkside Foundation; Anne Simms Pincus and Ron Pincus; Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre; Anne and Ron Pincus; Other Press, a Division of Random House; David Speights; Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture: Nancy Cater, Editor; the State Library of Louisiana; Judith "Jude" Swenson in memory of her late husband, James Swenson, and the law firm of Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles.
Reservations & Ticketing
Tickets for Words & Music, 2011 went on sale June 1. You can register on-line at . If you prefer, you can register directly with us by snail mail or e-mail to faulkhouse@aol.com. Because of the heavy fees charged by credit card companies, checks are appreciated. A working schedule of sessions is posted and will be updated daily between now and the opening of the festival. Our pricing schedule is somewhat complicated because of the different audiences we are serving. You may want to review the schedule for 2010 before registering. We do not accept credit cards at our Eventbrite ticketing site for less than $50 so if you are registering for a single discussion or master class, for instance, register directly with us at Faulkhouse@aol.com. Click Here for pricing info. Click Here for a registration form if you elect to register with us directly. Click Here for Schedule.
The 2011 Program
The Society's annual Fall literary happening, allows published authors and scholars to showcase new work in theme sessions designed for readers and writers.
The theme of Words & Music, 2011 will be:
Literature & Life in the Global Village
The theme was selecte to explore through literature and scholarly studies issue which are impacting our lives both negatively and positively in our shrinking world, as well as providing new inspiration for literature, music andand the other arts. Words & Music, 2011 will examine these issues through the lenses of literature: fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry; re-examination of classics of American and world literature; philosophy, psychology, religion, journalism, music, live drama, cinema, television, lifestyle, the environment, and visual arts. We are employing these humanities to get at some basic truths about our lives in the global village.. For recommended reading on the theme, Click Here!
Among the most important issues in the shrinking world we live in is the electronic dissemination of information and its positive and negative impact on our lives.
Among authors who have accepted the Society's invitation to join the faculty of Words & Music, 2011 is
Ted 
Mooney, who will address Sense of Place and The Impact of the Communications Revolution. Knopf recently published Mooney's new novel, The Same River Twice, a great example of a novel by a writer who understands intimately the importance of conveying a sense of place in fiction. His first novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets, Mooney coined the concept, "information sickness," which has since been used in various contexts as a symptom or result of overexposure to all forms of media. For more information on Ted Mooney and his work, Click Here!
Mooney will be joined in the discussion of the 
information revolution by Andrei Codrescu, noted poet, novelist, essayis, and regular NPR commentator, who recently published an article in Publishers Weekly taking the internet's social media to task for their highly negative impact on artists, both established and emerging. Expected to join them is Chris Ruen, author of the new book Freeloading, a 2011 release by OR Books.
Andrei Codrescu
Photo By David Gallent
For the first time last year, Words & Music issued a call for papers to be presented during Words & Music by academics, scholars, psychologists, physicians, music and art critics, architects, and other experts on topics related to The Literature of War & Collateral Damage. We are once again inviting papers in 2011 on the theme of Literature & Life in the Global Village. Examples of suggested topics include:
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As Old as Humanity: Dreams & Their Importance in the 21st Century
The Influence of the Internet on Ancient Archetypes in our Lives
The Internet as a Force for Human Rights and Freedom
Music in the Global Village
Global Warming in our Shrinking World
For additional topic suggestions, guidelines, publication details and registration information related to this new segment of our programming, which will run concurrent with advice sessions for writers, click on Call for Papers. For submission guidelines, Click Here!
Presentation of Papers is made possible in part by Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture.
Faculty includes other prize-winning fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, screenwriters, and scholars; literary agents, editors, and publishers; and performance artists in literature, drama, and music.
Providing Realistic Assistance to Writers
In addition to our humanities theme sessions, Words & Music will once again present a full program of sessions designed primarily for yet unpublished authors, writers who want to improve their work and get it publishes— such as manuscript critiques and one-on-one consultations with top-notch literary agents and editors; workshops with hands-on attention to developing writers by agents and editors, established fiction writers, non-fiction writers, and poets. For guidelines to prepare and submit work to be critiqued, Click Here.
The Faulkner Society, which has helped hundreds of authors get their work published, takes seriously its mission of finding the next generation of talented writers.
Agents who have accepted for Words & Music, 2011 to date are:
Julie Barer, Barer Literary; Brandi Bowles Foundry Lit & Media; Elise Capron, Sandra Dijkstra Literary AgencyDeborah Grosvenor, Grosvenor Literary Agency; Robert Guinsler, Sterling Lord; Jeff Kleinman, founding partner of Folio Literary Management, LLC; Dan Conaway , Writers House; Michael Murphy, Max & Co. A Literary Agency & Social Club, who will be conducting two limited registration workshops; and Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein, senior agent at McIntosh & Otis. To learn more about the agents participating, Click Here!
Editors who have accepted to date are:
Helene Atwan, Beacon Press; Sarah Crichton, Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux; Andra Miller, Algonquin; Eric Liebetrau, non-fiction editor for Kirkus; Will Murphy, Executive Editor, Random House; John Oates, Or Books; Signe Pike, freelance editorial consultant, who has edited for Random House, Ballantine Books, and Penguin/Plume; Susanna Porter, Executive Editor, Random House; Michael Signorelli, HarperCollins; and Christopher Chambers, Editor of New Orleans Review, who will be doing a Limited Registration Workshop with agent Michael Murphy on Strong Openings. To read about the agents and editors coming, Click Here!
Words & Music, 2011 Programming Categories:
—Theme programming, Literature & Life in the Global Village, including presentation of Papers on topics related to the theme.
—Humanities sessions which do not fall into the 2011 theme category,such traditional topics:
New Orleans, Mon Amour
The Classics Revisited: Hemingway's A Moveable Feast & Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Spiritual Journeys: The Importance of Our Dreams in the Global Village
Live Music & Live Words About Music
The Aesthetics of Literature
Literature & Lunch
Books & Publishing
Hollywood Experience: Cinema
Live Drama: The American Place Theatre
—Programs for developing writers including Master classes, career counseling workshops, and one-on-one consultations with first class literary agents and editors, established poets and authors.
—Special Events, including food, wine and entertainment, such as:
Jazz After Hours at the Napoleon House, featuring live music, food, open bar;.Faulkner for All:The annual meeting of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, featuring presentation of winners of the 2010 Faulkner – Wisdom Creative Writing Competition; a Welcome cocktail party, honoring patrons and early arriving faculty, at Faulkner House;Tall Tales Competition, led by humorist Roy Blount, Jr.
A Few Highlights: Literature & Life in the Global Village
(Note: while there may be adjustment in times, these events are confirmed for Words & Music, 2011)
The 2011 theme programming offers an exiting array of entertaining and enlightening subject matter for the general reading public ranging from the immigrant experience in modern America to the perfect French omelette.
Literature:
Appearances by three Pulitzer Prie winners: Junot Diaz, Nilo Cruz, and Robert Olen Butler and numerous other prizewinning authors, such as Anka Muhlstein, winner of the Goncourt Prize for literature and two
history prizes from Academie Francaise.
Live Drama:
The immigrant experience in America will be brought to life by critically acclaimed actor Elvis Nolasco in a production by The American Place Theatre of an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Junot Díaz, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Both Nolasco and Diaz are children of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Click Here!
Friday, November 19, 2 p. m.,
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
Classics Revisited:
Paula McLain and Tom Carson
The Art of Translation
Poetry: To Be Announced
Music: To Be announced
Cinema: To Be Announced
Humor: To Be Announced
Visual Arts: Joan Griswold
William Faulkner & His Work
Dean Faulkner Wells, Lawrence Wells, W. Kenneth Holditch
Cinema: Short Film
Cuisine:
The Perfect French Omelette:
One Made in Winter with White Truffles
Ana Mulkstein, Nicole Kelby, and Randy Fertel.
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SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION | CRITIQUE GUIDELINES
NOTE: Faulkner finalists enjoy 50% discount off tuition! If you plan to attend this year's Words & Music, you MUST print a registration form and mail it to us with your fees. If you are a scholarship or competition WINNER, your basic tuition fee (including manuscript critique) is waived, but we must still have a registration form in our office ASAP so we have a clear idea of how many will be attending. This event IS expected to sell-out!
Faculty Sneak Peek
Click on FACULTY to see bios and photos of the authors presenting. Click on AGENTS & EDITORS for bios of those joining us this yearl
Dates & Details
Confirmed Dates for Words & Music are November 9-13.The working schedule is posted now and has a complete list of events, although there are some faculty
yet to be added and other additions to be made such as specific venues for events. Y
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—was a co-sponsor of Words & Music, 2009 and is always among important venues for the festival, with a special conference rate.
Come to The Big Easy and Find
Your Literary Voice...
Like Faulkner and Hemingway and Other Famous Writers Have!
Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans is the result of our American dream. It includes sessions for writers conducted by literary masters, who also hold forth on timely theme material of interest to the general reading public. Words & Music is a feast for the ears, the eyes, the soul with its examination of fiction, non fiction, and new phenomena within the literary and communications arena and its photographic art exhibitions, film sessions, drama, poetry readings at the cocktail hour, great music, dancing, and the renowned cuisine of New Orleans. For a guide to the Big Easy CLICK HERE!
2010 Pricing
In addition to the discussion events of Words & Music you may also choose from a variety of luncheon and evening events, all of which feature music, food and wine. We have package prices if you want to take in all of the events of Words & Music. Submit your credit card reservations by fax, phone, or mail. Check and money orders also accepted by mail. For more info on conference pricing, CLICK HERE. To print your easy reservation form: CLICK HERE
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available for Louisiana high school and college students and older writers currently in a creative writing program.To print your scholarship application, CLICK HEREIMPORTANT! NEW Manuscript Critique Guidelines
If you wish to submit work for critiques by an agent and editor, please note that the rules have changed! We require that everything be submitted electronically, with one hard copy of all documents MAILED TO OUR OFFICE. Review the guidelines below and then submit the required documents in a single attachment; contact sheet first, then synopsis if applicable, then writing sample.
1. Write a cover letter in the body of your email to Words & Music stating that you are attending the conference and wish to have manuscript critiques and consultations. You may name the editor and agent you wish to speak with, but please note, these are on a first-come first-served basis. (This also will be the first page of your snail-mailed copy.)
2. With the email letter, you will need to include the following as a single attachment MS Word document: (Regardless of Category, one copy of entire submission).
a. For Novel, novella, or novel in progress, memoir, history, biography: Contact sheet (your name and all contact info, name of work, type of work, estimated word count of completed manuscript); synopsis (not more than one page single spaced or two pages double-spaced) and 25 to 30 pages, usually first couple of chapters, or some pages you feel are the best example of your writing skills. Total submission 7,000 words, double spaced, one inch margins.
b. For Short Story, Essay, Journalistic Feature (such as travel writing), or Criticism: Contact sheet, and entire manuscript.
c. For Poetry: Contact sheet, and selection of three poems.
3. All submissions must be in our hands by William Faulkner's Birthday, September 25, 2011, drop dead deadline. Send your electronic submission to: faulkhouse@aol.com and put "Manuscript Critiques" in your message header. Put your cover letter in the body of the email. For the hard copy, mail your cover letter and all applicable documents to: Manuscript Critiques, Faulkner Society, 624 Pirate's Alley, New Orleans, LA 70116
4. You must register with tuition fee before or simultaneously with this electronic submission. Only competition winners, and Louisiana writers approved by sponsors for scholarship participation may submit for manuscript critiques without paying a tuition fee. Click on Pricing for details.
When you come to the conference, bring several hard copies of your submission, in case you meet agents other than those to whom you are assigned and would like to request that they review your work. Also bring several copies of completed manuscripts being critiqued in the event the editor or agent wants to see the entire work. Agents are very relaxed about looking at submissions not assigned to them, as a rule, and are willing to be approached, as, of course, they all hope to sign new clients from the conference. Please do not hesitate to approach them between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m.
Please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@wordsandmusic.org with any questions. Fall back e-mail, Faulkhouse@aol.com.
History & Mission of Words & Music
The Society created Words & Music in honor of the 100th birthday of its namesake, Nobel Laureate William Faulkner. For an inside look at the event's exciting history, CLICK HERE!To learn more about the mission of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, CLICK HERE!
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