The Books Along the Teche Literary Festival is proud to announce its plans for the 6th annual festival on April 1-3, 2022.

The featured Great Southern Writer is Osha Gray Davidson, author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, which was turned into a major motion picture.

The festival has many events to choose from that will delight fans of Southern literature, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, theater and children’s books.

Attendees can follow James Lee Burke’s character Dave Robicheaux through the streets of New Iberia at the Dave’s Haunts and Jaunts bus tour, take a guided walking tour under New Iberia’s historic live oaks, and visit authors from around the country at the Author’s Book Fair.

Participants will learn the secrets to good Louisiana cooking at a morning food demo, attend free movie screenings of The Best of Enemies, and be a part of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Symposium on James Lee Burke and the Center Stage Readers’ Theater featuring one of his chosen titles.

There will also be a tribute to Ernest Gaines, children’s workshops, a bourée tournament, 5K run, art exhibits and a lecture on Iberia’s African American history.

Two evening receptions will give festival goers a chance to taste Southern Louisiana delicacies while being serenaded by the Bunk Johnson Brazz Band and Terry Huval and the Jambalaya Cajun Band. They can also take a ride down the Bayou Teche with T-Boy’s Bayou Adventure Tour and savor the sounds at the free Symphony Sunday in the Park.

All of these events celebrate South Louisiana’s unique literary history, culture, and cuisine in the New Iberia National Register Historic District.