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Flannery O’Connor’s fervid following

The Flannery O’Connor look-alike contest in Lafayette Square, Savannah, Georgia, on March 23, 2025. Denise Flojo (the lady at center in brown polka-dotted dress) was declared the winner, beating out the “Flannery O’Connor Spice Girls” quintet to the left. 

Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) had her biggest-ever annual birthday celebration in Savannah, Georgia, last weekend, on the occasion of her 100th birthday. The Southern Gothic writer from Savannah was feted with three days of events, starting with soirées on Friday night and ending with a New Orleans-style procession through Lafayette Square led by Savannah’s Sweet Thunder Band late Sunday afternoon. It was a blast.

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