548. We talk with Allison Alsup and Jessica Kinnison, who run the New Orleans
Writers’ Workshop. "Since its founding in Spring 2017, the
New Orleans Writers Workshop has aimed to affordably meet the
need for quality creative writing classes in the New Orleans
community. Joining forces with an ever-growing number of
community partners that embraced the venture like only New
Orleans can, NOWW has held one-day, two-day, four-week, and
nine-week classes at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New
Orleans Center for Creative Arts, A Studio in the Woods, and the
Southern Hotel, among other venues, in addition to free
workshops at public libraries and in nonprofit or congregate
settings, including Orleans Parish Prison, Project Lazarus, and
826 New Orleans... Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer,
teacher and editor. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, is slated for
publication by Turner Publishing in August 2024. She holds
an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. Her short
fiction has won multiple contests and appears, among other
places, in the 2014 O’Henry Prize Stories and the U.K.‘s 2018
Manchester Fiction Prize shortlist, her non-fiction in Best Food
Writing 2015.... Jessica Kinnison’s work has appeared in
Columbia Journal, Phoebe, Entropy, Juked, and The Southern
Humanities Review, among other publications. A 2018 Kenyon
Review Peter Taylor Fellow, her story “Star Party” placed second
in the 2019 Tennessee Williams Festival Short Short Fiction
Contest."
Writers’ Workshop. "Since its founding in Spring 2017, the
New Orleans Writers Workshop has aimed to affordably meet the
need for quality creative writing classes in the New Orleans
community. Joining forces with an ever-growing number of
community partners that embraced the venture like only New
Orleans can, NOWW has held one-day, two-day, four-week, and
nine-week classes at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New
Orleans Center for Creative Arts, A Studio in the Woods, and the
Southern Hotel, among other venues, in addition to free
workshops at public libraries and in nonprofit or congregate
settings, including Orleans Parish Prison, Project Lazarus, and
826 New Orleans... Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer,
teacher and editor. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, is slated for
publication by Turner Publishing in August 2024. She holds
an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. Her short
fiction has won multiple contests and appears, among other
places, in the 2014 O’Henry Prize Stories and the U.K.‘s 2018
Manchester Fiction Prize shortlist, her non-fiction in Best Food
Writing 2015.... Jessica Kinnison’s work has appeared in
Columbia Journal, Phoebe, Entropy, Juked, and The Southern
Humanities Review, among other publications. A 2018 Kenyon
Review Peter Taylor Fellow, her story “Star Party” placed second
in the 2019 Tennessee Williams Festival Short Short Fiction
Contest."
- This week in Louisiana history. November 11, 1984. Louisiana
World Exposition closes with financial loss. - This week in New Orleans history. Shortly before 6 p.m. on
November 18, 1926, the Orleans-Kenner commuter train was
struck and overturned at the Southport crossing by a string of
boxcars being back toward the river on a Louisiana Railway and
Navigation Company switch track. More than a dozen passengers
were injured, though only two of them were taken to the
hospital.
- This week in Louisiana.
The 4th Annual Human Horse Races will take place on Nov 23rd,
2023 from 11 – 3 P.M. at Easton Park in MidCity.
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Entry is free.
Live music is provided and food and beverages are available.
Purchase betting tokens to place donation bets on the horse
you think will win the following round. Winners of races
receive prizes, and betters get an entry for a chance to win a
mega-prize!
All donations benefit local animal & wildlife rescue
initiatives.
The 2023 beneficiary will be Greeno Equine
Sanctuary located in Leblanc, Louisiana.
- Postcards from Louisiana. TBC Brass Band & Hasizzle at
Satchmofest in the Old Mint in New Orleans.
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