How to Order Your Tickets
- For festival packages, including individuals, couples and competition finalists, use our easy and secure online ordering system HERE.
- If ordering a la carte items, you must click HERE to print out form and mail or e-mail to us with your payment.
- Writers seeking manuscript critiques during the festival can find a list of our agents and editors HERE.
- Prior to submitting manuscripts for critique, please visit CRITIQUE GUIDELINES.
Registrations are fully refundable prior to September 1, 2019. Refunds requested between September 1 and September 15 are available for 50 per cent of total paid. After September 15, refunds are not available but a credit for the full amount paid will be issued for next year’s festival. No critique registrations can be accepted after September 10th.
Faulkner for All!
2025 Schedule
To facilitate enjoyment of the City’s most historic neighborhood for our guests, all events take place in venues of historic importance, all within half a block of each other. All venues are in the lower Vieux Carré and close to Jackson Square, the site of the City’s founding. The principal inn for 2025 is the Hotel Provincial, where rooms were redecorated last year, a charming boutique hotel complex of re-purposed 19th-century buildings. Visit Hotel Provincial for information and to register online.
today a national literary landmark. Faulkner House Books, a major patron of the festival, is located on the ground floor in the room where Faulkner lived. Just a block from number 624 is the Bourbon Orleans Hotel with its historic Quadroon Ballroom, where the festival luncheons will be held on September 25th and 27th.
Welcome to the Vieux Carre and Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner!
8:00 a. m. – Peter & Paul, the Church
Complimentary Continental Breakfast Available for Registered Guests of the Festival
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 —
Advice Session for Writers and Readers:
Getting the Place right, Setting the Scene
Shari Stauch, well known literary marketing consultant and owner of 
Where Writers Win, will introduce, one of the Faulkner Society’s a long time friend in the publishing industry, noted literary agent Jeff Kleinman of Folio Lit, will introduce his colleagues participating in the festival and then lead them all in a discussion of the importance of place and scene-setting in creating successful literature of all genres. Joining him will be agents: Katherine Fausset, Kiele Raymond, and Cullen Stanley; and editors: Celina “Cindy” Speigel, Katie Raissian, and Ellie Davis. (For information about all of these literary professionals, CLICK HERE!)
10:15 a. m – Noon, Peter & Paul, Studio Lounge, Third Floor, the School Building
Manuscript critiques by agents and editors begin.
Manuscripts submitted by writers are sent to their assigned agent and editor in advance of conference and they make one-on-one appointments with their assigned writers in advance of the festival. Shari Stauch will take appointments with registered writers seeking marketing advice. To make an appointment, contact her by e-mail: [email protected].
Note: If you plan to submit work for critiques, please read the manuscript critique guidelines Here. Submit electronically to Faulkhouse@aol.com.
12:30 p. m. — Historic Quadroon Ballroom, Mezzanine, Bourbon Orleans Hotel
Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner Luncheo
Friday, September 27, 2019
Advice & Critiques
8:00 a. m. – Hotel Provincial Meeting Room
Complimentary Continental Breakfast Registered Guests of the Festival
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 —Peter & Paul, the Church
Advice Session for Writers and Readers:
Selling Your Books to Publishers
Jeff Kleinman, literary agent, will lead participating editors Katie Raissian, Ellie Davis, and Cindy Speigel in a discussion of what it takes, once you have written your book, to get it published.
10:00 to Noon —Peter and Paul, Studio Lounge
Final Manuscript Critique
1:00 p. m. — Quadroon Ballroom, Bourbon Orleans Hotel
Thinking of Home Luncheon
Lawrence Wells, whose late wife Dean Faulkner Wells was William Faulkner’s niece and adopted daughter, will introduce the new documentary on William Faulkner’s mother, Maud, other members of the Faulkner family and their homes in Oxford, Ms. The title of the film is Thinking of Home, a quote from taken from some of Faulkner’s letters sent home while he was in New Orleans working on his first novel and various other works. After the film, which is short, Larry will introduce the new edition of The Cofield Collection, William Faulkner’s life
in photographs. Copies of this collector’s item, published by Larry’s Yoknapatawpha Press, will be available at the luncheon for sale.
3:00 p. m.
Festival Adjourns until 2020 and the 30th annual meeting of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society.
Competition Winners:
The Society will pay transportation up to $500 and hotel accommodations at the lovely boutique hotel in the French Quarter, the Provincial for the winner. Runners-up will be our guests for all of the events but must pay their own travel and hotel expenses. Others on the short list who wish to attend will received a discount of 50% on the writers package for the occasion. The package includes manuscript critiques. Literary agents will be critiquing winners and runners-up. Other finalists can enjoy a 25% discount off the $475 writer package price; semi-finalists are offered a 10% discount.
Writers should plan to arrive on Tuesday, September 24 by mid-day to attend an afternoon session, beginning with light food and drink; registration, keynote addresses.
The session runs from 1 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. at The Cabildo at Jackson Square. Out of town winners will stay at Hotel Peter and Paul the nights of September 24, 25, 26, departing on the 27. New Orleans winners are offered one night at the hotel, September 25, the night of the black tie gala annual meeting of the Society. All winners must confirm prior to September 9, when our bloc of rooms expires.