The Festival celebrates another year with three amazing artists and two days of memorable events–live! The festival will take place Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5. This year the festival features Clemonce Heard, John McNally and Ashley M. Jones. Festival events include creative writing workshops for students and the community, a community stage for open mic, and “Drive-by Poetry” in which youth give dramatic presentations of festival authors’ writings.
The Friday night event features a poetry and musical presentation by all three featured artists On Saturday, Drive-by Poetry performers from the Magnet Academy of Cultural Arts will recite works by the featured authors. There will also be an open mic on the community stage, and multiple creative writing workshops, which are open to the public. More details are forthcoming. For more information, check out festivalofwords.org or contact Martha Garner at (337) 804-2482 or fowmartha@gmail.com.
The Festival of Words is supported in part by the St. Landry Parish Tourism Commission and Southarts.
The Festival of Words appreciates partnerships with Acadiana Open Channel, Acadiana Writing Project, Lyrically Inclined, Nunu’s, St. Landry Parish Schools, and many volunteers and sponsors.
FESTIVAL OF WORD ARTISTS: Clemonce Heard, John McNally, and Ashley M. Jones.
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