548. The New Orleans Writers' Workshop

548. We talk with Allison Alsup and Jessica Kinnison, who run the New Orleans Writers’ Workshop. "Since its founding in Spring 2017, the New Orleans Writers Workshop has aimed to affordably meet the need for quality creative writing classes in the New Orleans community. Joining forces with an ever-growing number of community partners that embraced the venture like only New Orleans can, NOWW has held one-day, two-day, four-week, and nine-week classes at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, A Studio in the Woods, and the Southern Hotel, among other venues, in addition to free workshops at public libraries and in nonprofit or congregate settings, including Orleans Parish Prison, Project Lazarus, and 826 New Orleans... Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer, teacher and editor. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, is slated for publication by Turner Publishing in August 2024.  She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College.  Her short fiction has won multiple contests and appears, among other places, in the 2014 O’Henry Prize Stories and the U.K.‘s 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize shortlist, her non-fiction in Best Food Writing 2015.... ​Jessica Kinnison’s work has appeared in Columbia Journal, Phoebe, Entropy, Juked, and The Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. A 2018 Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow, her story “Star Party” placed second in the 2019 Tennessee Williams Festival Short Short Fiction Contest."

1. This week in Louisiana history. November 11, 1984. Louisiana World Exposition closes with financial loss.
2. This week in New Orleans history. Shortly before 6 p.m. on November 18, 1926, the Orleans-Kenner commuter train was struck and overturned at the Southport crossing by a string of boxcars being back toward the river on a Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company switch track. More than a dozen passengers were injured, though only two of them were taken to the hospital.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   The 4th Annual Human Horse Races will take place on Nov 23rd, 2023 from 11 – 3 P.M. at Easton Park in MidCity.
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   Entry is free.
   Live music is provided and food and beverages are available. Purchase betting tokens to place donation bets on the horse you think will win the following round. Winners of races receive prizes, and betters get an entry for a chance to win a mega-prize!
   All donations benefit local animal & wildlife rescue initiatives.
   The 2023 beneficiary will be Greeno Equine Sanctuary located in Leblanc, Louisiana.
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. TBC Brass Band & Hasizzle at Satchmofest in the Old Mint in New Orleans.

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