Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival

The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is an annual five-day literary festival in the city of New Orleans. The festival is dedicated to American playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived and worked in the city, and later won the Pulitzer Prize. Each year, it features several events related to the long career of that writer, as well as writing workshops, panel discussions, literary readings, stage performances, a book fair, music, writing contests, and other events related to American literature, poetry, drama, opera, film, photography, art, history, New Orleans culture, and cooking. The signature event is the Stella and Stanley Shouting Contest that closes the festival.

The festival in New Orleans is not related to the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which is held annually in October in the childhood hometown of Tennessee Williams. Other festivals around the country also commemorate this writer.

The Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival is coordinated by the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival.