The SAS Poetry Contest, presented by the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, is an annual call for original, unpublished poetry that engages LGBTQ+ content through the broad thematic lens of 'Saints and Sinners.' The contest seeks work that interrogates the sacred and the profane, the revered and the reviled, and the complex moral territories that LGBTQ+ writers have long navigated. Submissions may consist of up to 400 lines total, allowing for a sequence, a long poem, or a cohesive group of shorter pieces. The entry fee is $20 USD. The 2026–2027 judge is Ruben Quesada, a poet, editor, and critic whose own work traverses revelation and extinction, desire and loss. Quesada is the author of Revelations (2018) and Next Extinct Mammal (2011), and the editor of the landmark anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (2023). His collection Brutal Companion (2024) won the Barrow Street Editors Prize and was recognized as a Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California. His translations of Luis Cernuda and his recent commission for Goodman Theater attest to a curatorial intelligence that honors both lyric precision and historical consciousness. Writers selected by Quesada will join a lineage of voices that the Festival has platformed for decades. The Festival, rooted in the literary and cultural legacy of Tennessee Williams, provides a stage for poetry that is as unflinching as it is crafted. While the prize details are not specified in the provided information, the contest's value lies in the visibility it affords within a festival known for celebrating risk-taking and emotional truth. This is not a call for polite verse; it is an invitation to submit work that wrestles with the angels and demons of queer experience, however they may be named.