Thanks to alum Marta Powell we have been able to recover some missing spots in the Writers’ Festival history! We have now been able to add the winners for poetry and short story for 1973 and the winner for poetry in 1974 as well as part of both of the Aurora magazines for those years (see Magazine Archive). We were also sent a newspaper clipping from the Atlanta Journal announcing the ’74 winners (see below). Read more…
The 53rd Annual Writers’ Festival Contest is officially open for submissions! See submission information below: Entry Deadline: December 1, 2023 Agnes Scott College’s 53rd ANNUAL WRITERS’ FESTIVAL will be held on Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, 2024. Finalist entries in the Festival Contest will be judged by guest writers Beth Ann Fennelly, Sholeh Wolpé, and and Leticia Urieta ‘09. Contest categories are poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. A prize of $500 will be awarded during the festival to the winning entry in each category. Read more…
The pdf link to the 2023 Writers’ Festival Magazine is here! Thank you so much for your patience! Enjoy!
Unfortunately, due to supply issues, the hard copy of this year’s Writers’ Festival magazines will not be here in time for the festival itself. If you are interested in receiving a hard copy here is the link to the form to fill out to receive a hard copy of the 2023 Writers’ Festival Magazine. The pdf of the magazine will be posted on this blog as soon as it is received. Thank you so much Read more…
Join The English Department in celebrating the 52nd Annual Writers’ Festival next Thursday and Friday! At long last, we are thrilled to be able to commemorate and mark this milestone with you. We hope you enjoy the lineup of events we’ve scheduled through which to look back at the Festival’s history, celebrate its present, and glimpse its future. If you’re looking to post on social media, please use #ASCWritersFestival to tag yourself! See the times and Read more…
Agnes Scott College’s 52nd Annual Writers’ Festival will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 30-31, 2023. Finalist entries in the Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Writers’ Festival Contest will be judged by guest writers Elizabeth Acevedo, Caryl Phillips, and Samantha Jayne Allen ‘11. Contest categories are poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. A prize of $500 will be awarded during the festival to the winning entry in each category. Finalists will be notified by email in January. Their work will be included in the Agnes Read more…
For more information about the 51st Annual Writers’ Festival, please see our calendar of events. We are hosting Lidia Yuknavitch, Tina Chang, and Anna Cabe ’13 this week, along with Georgia Poetry Circuit writer Lauren Alleyne. You won’t want to miss a minute!
Good morning, everyone. This week, The New York Times’ A. O. Scott profiles Tilile Olsen in his essay series, The Americans, in which he makes the case that Olsen’s work epitomizes something essential about American literature. Having recently read Yonnondio and remembering the awe I felt reading and teaching “I Stand Here Ironing,” he’s absolutely right! It’s a marvelous profile that details some of the challenges Olsen–and many women writers, in particular–have faced managing familial responsibilities with writing. Olsen was a Writers’ Festival Guest Read more…
Happy spring, everyone! Everything in Decatur is blooming, which means that the Writers’ Festival is just around the corner. I hope you’re getting as excited as we are! Did you see Claudia Rankine and Jericho Brown in the Times’ 125th Book Review retrospective? Rankine was a Festival Guest in 2017, and Brown has visited Agnes Scott in our Writer’s & Scholars series more than once. I also love that the Academy of American Poets is featuring Poetry & Environmental Justice as its March Read more…
Good morning, everyone, and–for Agnes Scott community members: Happy Peak Week. Today finds many of us traveling, virtually, on our global journeys; working, remotely, at SCALE (Sophomore Class Atlanta Leadership Experience) sites; collaborating on Applied Career Experiences (ACE courses); and, I hope for many, some much-needed mid-semester rejuvenation. My students and I are working our way through Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices, which we all agree is a delightful and surprising novel (she was Read more…
