Words & Music Festival

One Book One New Orleans returns with its popular music, literature, and activism extravaganza, the Words & Music Festival. This year's featured writers will include Stacey Balkun, Kristy Laschober, Father Anthony "Amde" Hamilton, Tiffany Guillory Thomas, Molly N. Mitchell, Lousiaiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin, and many more. The festival's main events include the announcement of winners of the Patty Friedmann Writing Competition, including the "Beyond the Bars" category—which celebrates the work of talented incarcerated juveniles; as well as a workshop for teachers on using comics to foster empathy in the classroom, staged readings of one-act plays, and much more. Filling out the musical side of the event will be a poetry tribute to the legendary Tina Turner at the festival's Late Night Lit session. Details to come at wordsandmusic.org.