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Louisiana Words Officially a Nonprofit Organization! CALL FOR WRITERS!

 
 

After a decade of dreams and hope, we are proud to announce that Louisiana Words is officially a nonprofit organization, Louisiana Words, LLC! During 2025, Louisiana Words will enter a renaissance phase and it will reinvented right before everyone’s eyes!
 


Louisiana Words (LouisianaWords.com) showcases the positivity of the Louisiana LGBTQIA+ writers community and our allies. Our family of writers are lighting up the state of Louisiana and the rest of the world for the Winter 2025 season starting on Sunday, January 5th, 2025!

Louisiana Words is a LGBTQIA+ nonprofit organization that promotes writers who live and who have lived in Louisiana! We are here to be a creative outlet that helps uplift and inspire each other! We promote creativity over violence. Louisiana Words is gearing up for another great year of talent!

LouisianaWords.com is the home for Louisiana's LGBTQIA+ writers and our allies! We help market new and seasoned writers for FREE! Just submit your work and we’ll get you into our content rotation! You may submit your new content to louisianawords@gmail.com or you may contact us through social media!

We are calling for writers! If you live in Louisiana or have lived in Louisiana, you can submit! We accept poetry, fiction, short plays, short screenplays, or memoirs! We love writing from new or seasoned writers! No politically-motivated content will be accepted.

The next Louisiana Words Live show is Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at 7:30pm at the Allways Lounge & Cabaret in New Orleans! The show is hosted by J. Michael Norris and creator, Louis Toliver Jr.

We’re excited to have you as a part of our family! Feel free to also reach out to J. Michael Norris @jmichaelnorris808 or Louis Toliver Jr @ltjishere on Instagram to submit to our website, read in our next live show, or if you have any questions!

We will begin formally creating a board and well as recruiting content editors. It is inevitable that Louisiana Words will become polished and our look will change as well. We will go through over whole a decade of writing and invite all writers that have ever participated in Louisiana Words back. We hope not only strive with our online content but also to eventually introduce a magazine. There's so much potential in our community to impact healthy change in the world. If you are looking for a place to be yourself and express your truths, come home to Louisiana Words.

To those who have contributed to Louisiana Words, thank you so much for helping keep our voices alive! For now, please continue to follow our scheduled content of Louisiana Words as below in the short term:
 
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How to follow Louisiana Words Weekly on Facebook & Instagram:


Sundays: New content uploaded to LouisianaWords.com

Mondays: Les Mots Passè (past content)


Tuesdays: Debuts


Wednesdays: Featured Writer


Thursday:  Louisiana Words News & Live Replay


Friday: Les Mots Passè (past content)



Saturday: Best of the Week/Best of the Globe


Follow our Facebook page and follow us on Instagram: @louisianawords1 

Interested in being on LouisianaWords.com or participate in a live show, Submit to louisianawords@gmail.com!

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