Full 2025 Faulkner For All Schedule
September 25 - 28, 2025Welcome!
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Faulkner For All
Venues:
Historic BK House, 113 Chartres Street
Hotel Provincial, 1024 Chartres Street
Miller Hall, Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Avenue
St. Mary’s Chapel and Garden, Ursulines Convent, 1116 Chartres Street
Thursday, September 25
11am - BK House, main floor. Festival opens, registration.
11:30am - Light lunch (Reserve in advance for lunch: faulkhouse@aol.com)
12:30pm - BK House, main floor
New Orleans, Mon Amour : French Quarter Journal publisher Ellis Anderson leads a focusing on sense of place – an element intergral to successful literature and visual art – with bestselling author Thomas Mallon and author Dalt Wonk, and photographer Josephine Sacabo. Elsie Michie, winner of the 2025 Gold Medal for non-fiction book, will chime in.
2pm - BK House, main floor. Book signings
2:30pm - BK House, main floor
Faulkner and New Orleans:A celebration of the 100th anniversary of Faulkner’s first novel, Soldiers’ Pay. Faulkner Society co-founder Rosemary James, John Shelton Reed, Dixie Bohemia, Penny Morrill, Robin Sinclair, and Lisa C. Hickman, Ph.D
4pm - BK House, main floor. Book signings
4:45pm - Break and manuscript critiques.
6:30pm – 8:30pm - Residence of Dr. E. Quinn Peeper and Michael Harold.
Welcome party by invitation with advance paid reservation. Email faulkhouse@aol to reserve.
Friday, September 26
8am - Hotel Provincial meeting room
Continental breakfast
8:30am – 9:45am - Hotel Provincial meeting room
Manuscript critique appointments
10am - BK House, main floor
Keynote for Writers:
Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler in conversation with literary agents Michael Signorelli and Katherine Fausset and editor Seema Mahanian.
11am - Break
11:15am - BK House, main floor.
Spiritual Journeys: Cults and Their Impact on American Culture and Politics
Literary agent Justin Brouckaert will introduce political fiction writer Thomas Mallon in conversation with author, journalist, and professor Claire Hoffman, author of the new book Sister, Sinner, just placed on the NYTimes Best Books of the Year list.
12:15pm - Break
12:30pm - BK House, main floor
Mining the Past to Create Contemporary Literature
Discussion leader: Nancy Dixon, Ph.D, author and Dillard University professor. With authors Karen Essex, Caroline Stanley, and Peter M. Wolf
1:45pm - BK House, main floor
Lunch (reserve and pay in advance: faulkhouse@aol.com) and book signings
3:30pm - Loyola University Miller Hall room 114. Free and open to the public
Theme Presentation for students and the public. Justin Torres, Guggenheim Fellow and author of We the Animals and Blackouts speaks on the theme The Fiction of History: Who Decides What Accurate History Is and What Will be Omitted. Introduction by Tracey Watts, Loyola’s English Department Chair.
7pm - BK House, main floor.
Embracing the Marginalized: An Evening with Justin Torres and Yuri Herrera.
Introduction by Lyn Sandin Di Ioria, winner of the Society’s Gold medal for 2025 Best Book in Progress.Cocktail buffet and book signings following the presentation
Saturday, September 27
8am – 10am - Hotel Provincial meeting room
Continental breakfast, Manuscript critiques
10:15am - BK House, main floor
From Misfortunes to Literary Fortune: Advice session for authors with literary editor and publisher Cindy Speigel, National Book Award winner Justin Torres, author Andrew Lam, and agent Kiele Raymond.
11:30am - Break, book signings
12:15pm - BK House, main floor
Scrambling Around With Scrim: Publisher Susan Schadt, retired WDSU Chief Meteorologist Margaret Orr, illustrator Matt Rinard, and animal rescue nonprofit Zeus Rescues owner Michelle Cheramie discuss famously evasive Scrim, beloved hero of SCRIM MY Tail, which has been endorsed by another animal lover, Gayle Benson.
1:30pm - Lunch and book signings
3pm - BK House, main floor
The Only Good Thing About War is the Literature It Inspires: Randy Fertel leads this discussion with authors Robert Olen Butler, Andrew Lam, Thomas Mallon, and the winner of the Society’s 2025 gold medal for short story, Russell Working, former foreign correspondent in Russia.
4:30pm - Book signings
5pm - Break, manuscript critiques
6:30pm – 8:30pm - BK House, main floor
An Evening with the Countess of Derby: Historian, art curator, philanthropist, equestrian and storyteller Caroline Stanley, Countess of Derby, with introduction by Dr. E. Quinn Peeper, Faulkner Society Chair.
Note: Copies of the Countess’s book, The American Journal of Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby: The Making of a Prime Minister, for signing at this event should be reserved and paid for in advance. Call Garden District Books 504-895-2266 to reserve.
Sunday, September 28
8am - Hotel Provincial meeting room
Continental breakfast
8:30am – 10:45am - Manuscript critique appointments
11am - BK House, main floor
Advice Session for writers: Introduced by literary editor Ellie Davis, literary marketing expert Shari Stauch will explain how writers can build a literary profile and lay the foundation for selling their work to publishers and the general public. Gold medal winner for Book of Fiction, Patricia Barone and High School short story winner, who have successfully marketed their work will join them.12:15pm - Break
12:30pm - BK House, main floor
The Architecture of the Arts: First You Lay a Foundation: Discussion on the construction of art, no matter the medium, with architect / author / artist / musician Errol Baron; writer / painter Moira Crone; and 2025 gold medal winners in the Society’s competition: Beth Ann Fennelly, best essay; and author Megan Baxter, best novella.
1:30pm - BK House Main Floor
Light lunch (Reserve in advance at faulkhouse@aol.com) and signings.2:30pm - BK House, main floor
Special Interest Book: Obituary Cocktail : Join Susan Strachan as she talks about her new book and serves obituary cocktails for dessert.
3:30 pm - BK House, main floor
The Muse on the Mississippi: Poetry: Readings and discussion with 2025 Louisiana Writer of the Year Julie Kane, publisher and poet Bill Lavender, poet Rodger Kamenetz, and Society gold medal winners for poetry Cassandra Delaney, single poem, and Richard Katrovas, collection.
5:00pm - Signings.
5:30pm - Hotel Provincial meeting room
Manuscript critique appointments
6pm - Break
7pm - St. Mary’s Chapel, Ursulines Convent
35th Black Tie Annual Meeting of the Faulkner Society: Program includes presentation of the 2024-25 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition winners, toasts to Faulkner by John Shelton Reed and
Julie Kane.8:30pm - Drinks, Dinner, Dancing in Convent’s tented garden.
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