The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Janet Nodar

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Janet Nodar has been a writer since realizing, in elementary school, that she could not just read all day. She has published literary and genre short fiction and freelanced as a business and lifestyle reporter, eventually building a career as a reporter and editor for the Journal of Commerce, a trade publication covering global shipping. She holds degrees in finance and in creative writing from the University of South Alabama, where she taught comp and rhetoric.  

 

Schedule

10:00 am to 11:00 am

State Capitol, House Committee Room 3

The Best of the Shortest: Short Fiction

with Joe Formichella, Suzanne Hudson, Bev Marshall, Janet Nodar, Theodore Pitsios, Dayne Sherman, and Karen Spears Zacharias

 

11:15 am to Noon

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

The Best of the Shortest: A Southern Writers Reading Reunion

“This collection is quite positively on fire with humor and heartache, darkness and light, and countless blazing turns of phrase. An essential addition to every Southern reader’s collection. I have known and admired a fair number of writers in these pages for a long time but seeing their work all together like this fills me up with love, love, love.”—Michael Knight, Eveningland, winner of a Truman Capote Award, a NYTimes editor’s pick, and a Southern Book of the Year (Southern Living Magazine).

 

Short stories from the following authors are included:

  

Marlin Barton + Rick Bragg + Sonny Brewer + Doug Crandell + Pia Z. Ehrhardt + David Wright Faladé + Beth Ann Fennelly + Joe Formichella + Patricia Foster + Tom Franklin + Robert Gatewood + Jason Headley + Jim Gilbert + Frank Turner Hollon + Suzanne Hudson + Joshilyn Jackson + Bret Anthony Johnston + Abbott Kahler + Doug Kelley + Cassandra King + Suzanne Kingsbury + Dawn Major + Bev Marshall + Michael Morris + Janet Nodar + Jennifer Paddock + Theodore Pitsios + Lynn Pruett + Ron Rash + Michelle Richmond + R. P. Safire + Dayne Sherman + George Singleton + Robert St. John + Sidney Thompson + Daniel Wallace + Daren Wang + James Whorton, Jr. + Mac Walcott + Karen Spears Zacharias