Two nationally acclaimed authors who served as writers-in-residence at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women will lead master classes on Friday (May 9) during the sixth annual Saints and Sinners alternative literary festival in New Orleans.
Michelle Tea and Dorothy Allison will lead discussions during the festival, being held at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, 717 Orleans Ave.
Tea, who was on the Tulane campus in February to serve as the Zale Writer-in-Residence, will speak at 1:30 p.m. on Friday on the topic, "Your DIY Career — How to Build a Sustainable Writing Life From the Ground Up." She is the author of four memoirs and recently published her first novel, Rose of No Man's Land.
Allison's talk, "Uncensored," is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday during the literary festival. She served as the Zale Writer-in-Residence in 1995 on the Tulane campus.
Allison, the author of award-winning novels Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller, recently was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction.
Tickets for the festival can be purchased in the lobby of the Bourbon Orleans Hotel starting at 9 a.m. on Friday.
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