SAS 9.5 is nearly here!

Here’s the schedule for the weekend, just in case you missed our last email. Please note that there is a room assignment change for our Manuscript Review Sessions and Workshops: Fay Jacobs’ session will now be in the Gallier Salon.

If you signed up for one of the workshops, your registration includes all other events. Workshop participants will receive a badge that acts as your entry to all events.

Opening Night

Time: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: The Royal CD Room/Hotel Monteleone/214 Royal Street

The Saints and Sinners 9.5 Literary Event opens with an evening of cocktails and readings from the anthology: Saints and Sinners 2012: New Fiction from the Festival. Live music by Raphael Bass. Hosted by co-editor, Amie M. Evans with contest finalists: J.R. Greenwell, George E. Jordan, Jeff Lindemann, Frank Perez, James Russell, and our winner, Jerry Rabushka.

Manuscript Review Sessions and Workshops

Time: Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: Hotel Monteleone/214 Royal Street

Each of the four groups will meet for a morning session from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (with an hour break for lunch), and will meet back up for an afternoon session from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The meeting rooms are located on the 2nd floor of the Hotel Monteleone. The room assignments are listed below:

Jameson Currier: Cabildo Salon
Fay Jacobs: Gallier Salon (Please note room assignment change)
Jeff Mann: Cathedral Salon
Radclyffe: Ursulines Salon

SAS Saturday Salon Readings

Time: Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Gallery Orange/819 Royal Street
Price: $10 at the door, or included in the weekend workshop pass

Festival authors William Holden, Jeff Mann, Radclyffe, J.M. Redmann, and Jerry Wheeler will read selections from their latest works for your listening pleasure. Hosted by humorist and author, Fay Jacobs.

Panel Discussion: Is The Sky Falling? Publishing, Plagiarism, and Piracy

Time: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Orleans Room (Mezzanine Level), Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street
Price: Free and open to public

Amazon seems poised to take over not just the book-selling business but apparently wants to take over book-publishing as well. Books are getting shorter and sales aren’t what they used to be. In this strange new world, how do presses and authors keep their heads above water?

Panelists: Jameson Currier, Greg Herren, and Radclyffe.
Moderator: J.M. Redmann

Thank you for supporting Saints and Sinners 9.5! If you have any questions about the event or the schedule, please contact Paul at: pjwillisnola@aol.com or feel free to call our office at: 504-581-1144.

Sunday, May 20, 2012
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Orleans Room (Mezzanine Level), Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street
Free and open to public

Bookstores are closing. Amazon seems poised to take over not just the book-selling business but apparently wants to take over book-publishing as well. Books are getting shorter and sales aren’t what they used to be. In this strange new world, how do presses and authors keep their heads above water? How does a publisher create a publishing program geared to success? How has the new world of smart phones, Facebook, and Twitter changed marketing? And how do you help readers sort through all the noise to get to your books when anyone with a keyboard is self-publishing ebooks?

Panelists: Jameson Currier, Greg Herren, and Radclyffe.
Moderator: J.M. Redmann

 

Thank you for supporting Saints and Sinners 9.5! If you have any questions about the event or the schedule, please contact Paul at: pjwillisnola@aol.com or feel free to call our office at: 504-581-1144.

Saturday, May 19, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Gallery Orange/819 Royal Street
Price: $10 at the door, or included in the weekend workshop pass

Join us for evening literary offerings amid the gorgeous art of Gallery Orange in the French Quarter. Festival authors William Holden, Jeff Mann, Radclyffe, J.M. Redmann, and Jerry Wheeler will read selections from their latest works for your listening pleasure. Hosted by humorist and author, Fay Jacobs. As always, there’ll be time for Q&As and lively discussion with authors and attendees afterwards. Cocktails and canapes will be served throughout the evening.

Saturday, May 19, 2012
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Hotel Monteleone/214 Royal Street

Each of the four groups will meet for a morning session from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (with an hour break for lunch), and will meet back up for an afternoon session from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The meeting rooms are located on the 2^nd floor of the Hotel Monteleone. The room assignments are listed below:

Jameson Currier: Cabildo Salon
Fay Jacobs: Presbytere Salon
Jeff Mann: Cathedral Salon
Radclyffe: Ursulines Salon

Friday, May 18, 2012
6:30 p.m.
The Royal CD Room/Hotel Monteleone/214 Royal Street

The Saints and Sinners 9.5 Literary Event opens with an evening of cocktails and readings from the anthology: Saints and Sinners 2012: New Fiction from the Festival. At this book launch/welcome party, finalists from the third annual Short Fiction Contest will read selections from or discuss their creative works. Live music by Raphael Bass.

Hosted by co-editor, Amie M. Evans with readings and/or discussion by contest finalists: J.R. Greenwell, George E. Jordan, Jeff Lindemann, Frank Perez, James Russell, and our winner, Jerry Rabushka.

All guests receive a copy of the book, published by QueerMojo, an imprint of Rebel Satori press, and can be the first to sample the anthology’s Saints and Sinners-themed stories. A special thank you goes out to our title sponsor for the contest and production of the Saints and Sinners anthology, The John Burton Harter Charitable Trust.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all in a few weeks. Hopefully, you’ve been enjoying exchanging and reading manuscripts for your Saturday workshops and critiques.

Here’s the schedule for the weekend with a few additional events for you to enjoy.

• If you signed up for one of the workshops, your registration includes all other events. Workshop participants will receive a badge that acts as your entry to all events.
• If you purchased tickets for the welcome party or the Saturday night reading, your name will be on a guest list at the door.
• The Sunday morning panel discussion is free and open to anyone that would like to hear about current trends in the publishing industry.

Friday, May 18: Welcome and Book Launch Party: 7:00 p.m. in the Royal Ballroom (1^st floor at the Hotel Monteleone). All participants will receive a copy of this year’s anthology, and there will be a short reading by some of our finalists.

Saturday, May 19: All-day workshops. The sessions to be facilitated by Jameson Currier and Radclyffe are sold out. There are seats still available for the memoir session with Fay Jacobs and for Jeff Mann’s session: Mixing it up: Adding Literary Techniques to All Genres of Writing.

Registration closes on Wednesday, April 18. We’ll be in touch with all registrants with more information and a complete schedule of events within the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions, please email Paul at: pjwillisnola@aol.com or call our office at: 504-581-1144.

Jim Stewart grew up on a farm in Michigan. After twenty years he retired from the Chicago Public Library, moved to a 19th-century farmhouse by Lake Michigan, and started to write. His first book, Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco came out in 2011. His writing is also represented in A Gay and Gray Anthology published by Chicago New Town Writers.

Pat Spears’ short fiction has been published in the North American Review, Appalachian Heritage, Seven Hills Review, Habersham Review, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives, and is forthcoming in an anthology titled Bridges and Borders. Several of her short stories have been selected as contest finalists. In 2009, she was nominated for a United States Artists Grant. She is currently shopping her first novel titled Wildflowers. She lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida, where she shares a home with her partner, Joan, their two canine friends, and a fat cat named Rosebud.

Jerry Rabushka is a writer, playwright, songwriter, actor, and musician. Many of his plays are published by Brooklyn Publishing and Heuer Publishers and are produced throughout the country and occasionally internationally. His band, The Ragged Blade Band, recently recorded some of his original songs and some early blues tunes. He is also editor of a national trade publication. Jerry was the winner of the Saints and Sinners Playwriting Competition in 2010 with Brushup Ten.