We're so excited to announce our judge for the 2027 SASFest Fiction Contest, Margot Douaihy @neonmargot !
Margot Douaihy's debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won the Pinckley Prize for First Crime Novel and was named one of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by The New York Times, The Guardian, CrimeReads, and others. Her second mystery, Blessed Water, was also named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (2024) and won the Publishing Triangle Award for LGBTQ Fiction. The third mystery in her series, Divine Ruin—"fearlessly inspired" (Gillian Flynn)—published in January 2026. Margot is an assistant professor with the Popular Fiction MFA at Emerson College.
You can learn more about our contests by visiting the link in our bio.
Revisit our 40th anniversary Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival: a five-day New Orleans affair for readers, writers, and theatre lovers!
This showreel includes footage from TWFest, along with our LGBTQ+ Literary Festival, @sasfest With literary gatherings by day and theater, music, and culinary events by night, TWF26 was a magical five days!
Video by The Bend Media, https://thebend.works/
Our Writing Contests are now open, and this year we're excited to introduce our Very Short Fiction Contest!
We now accept poetry, fiction, and very short fiction.
We can't wait to read your submissions!
Learn more about our contests at the link in our bio.
The SASFest 2027 Writing Contests are NOW OPEN! Submit your work now until October for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!
Our 2026 judges are Margot Douaihy for Fiction, Ruben Quesada for Poetry, and Denne Michele Norris for our NEW Very Short Fiction contest!
You can find more information about our contests at the link in our bio!
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It's World Book Day!
If you're looking for something to read, check out SAS26 Speakers Audrey Wilson and her book The Ever End and J.M. Redmann and her book The Smallest Day - two 2026 Goldie Award finalists!
Congrats to all the Golden Crown Literary Society Literary Award Finalists!
We're so grateful for our official SASFest 2026book provider, @tubbyandcoos !
Tubby & Coo's is a queer, liberationist, decentralized independent bookshop focused on uplifting underrepresented voices, building collective power, and demanding social justice.
Learn more by visiting tubbyandcoos.com
As the 2026 Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival comes to an end, we want to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who made this year's festival so special.
We'll have more pictures and videos rolling out soon, but, for now, we want to thank you so much for coming to #SASFest26.
We can't wait to see you all next year!
Bid on our special Festival auction! Dinners, hotel stays, a fiction critique, books, and artwork! Get a deal on some amazing items and pick them up at the Festival HQ, or we can ship them to you.
The auction includes artist Timothy Cummings' original artwork of author Jewelle Gomez gracing the cover of the Saints and Sinners program book cover this year. Also up for auction is artwork by Zach Grear, whose art has been featured in New York Pride Guide magazine, the Oslo Erotic Film & Art Festival, The AIDS Memorial T-Shirt, and LaMama Galleria among others.
Bid soon—this is a QUICK auction!
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Welcome to SASFest 2026!
We're so excited for everything we have in store for you at this year's SASFest. Registration is still open, and we also have individual Writer's Craft tickets for sale.
Visit sasfest.org for more info.
