Saints & Sinners: LGBT writing fest is a mainstay of the New Orleans literary scene.

The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival began, like many good things in New Orleans, as a conversation among friends. Partners Paul Willis and Greg Herren were musing over the possibility of combining ways to reach out with information about HIV/AIDS with an LGBTQ Literary Festival, and next thing you know, novelist Jean Redmann had come up with the perfect title: “Saints and Sinners.”