Words & Music Festival, New Orleans

04/21/2026

Calvin Duncan made history when he was sworn in as Clerk of Court earlier today. But before that, he was a panelist at Words & Music 2025!

Reading for Justice: From Incarceration to Exoneration

01/22/2026

Skye Jackson and Mona Lisa Saloy, Author & Folklorist both read at Words & Music 2025 on November 22. Exactly two months later, they’re kicking off our parent org’s year of FREE programming!

01/20/2026

At Words & Music 2024, a group of poets debuted new work inspired by the exhibit "Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration" at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Apparently they were not the only ones inspired by the power of "Captive State," because Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities just awarded it Museum Exhibition of the Year! Congratulations to everyone at HNOC for well-deserved recognition of the time and care you devoted to telling this story.

HNOC joins eight other Bright Lights Awards recipients that were recognized for their significant contributions to the understanding of Louisiana’s history and culture in the humanities field.

01/03/2026

Rebecca Morgan Frank, who participated virtually in Words & Music 2020, shares her most anticipated poetry of 2026.

My former teacher and mentor Gail Mazur, whose newest collection, World on a String, was recently released from Arrowsmith Press, once told me that as poets we maintain maps in our head within whic…

12/27/2025

The winner of the CNF category of the 2025 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition was just nominated for her first Pushcart! Congratulations to Kat Echevarría Richter!

CONGRATULATIONS to our latest Pushcart Prize nominees! 🎉 The Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry, and essays have been represented in the annual collection. Glassworks is thrilled to nominate these six works for the 2026 competition.

Rob Hardy's "Last Rights" • Poetry
Sarah Fawn Montgomery's "Sever" • poetry
Kat Echevarría Richter's "The Top Up" • fiction
Deborah Saki's "How to Live as a Foreigner in America: Watch Out for Your Head" • nonfiction
Razi Shadmehry's "Altar Call" • fiction
Alison Stone's "Eternal Ghazal" * poetry