Tennessee Williams Key West Festival & Birthday Party 🖊️

Tennessee Williams Key West Festival

To honor Tennessee Williams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary figure who relocated to Key West in 1949 and lived there for 34 years, the Tennessee Williams Museum and the Key West Art & Historical Society organize an annual festival. This month-long celebration, known as the Tennessee Williams Key West Festival, features a range of arts and cultural events held every March.

​This yearly festival of events includes a themed fundraiser, plein air painting contest, poetry and short story writing contests, lectures, museum tours, film screenings, live theater events and a birthday party complete with cake and bubbly.  This is done to honor the life and accomplishments of Williams, whose rise to stardom began with The Glass Menagerie and continued with A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and other dramatic masterpieces.

Tennessee Williams Birthday Party 🥂

At the party, we will announce the first and second place winners of the short story and poetry contests. The poetry winners will share their poems, while the short story winners will read excerpts from their manuscripts.

For more KEY WEST EVENTS, please check our 2025 KEY WEST EVENTS CALENDAR