We’re already at the middle of February — can you believe it? I hope you’ve picked up your ticket for Jennifer Nettles’ Reading or the Author Q&A at the Alston Information Desk. If you haven’t, you should do it soon! This year, Arda Collins will be our visiting poet, and Read more
I hope that some of you made it out to the Tony Morris reading that was this evening! As we approach the Writers’ Festival, I wanted to share another event that’s happening at Agnes Scott. Scott Newstok will be speaking at Agnes Scott on February 22nd, at 7pm in Rebekah Read more
Thursday, February 10th at 7pm, Poet Tony Morris will be reading in the Agnes Scott College Fireplace Lounge in the Alston Student Center. Please come out and enjoy this wonderful reading. Professor Morris’s first book of poems, Fugue’s End won the 2004 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award, Read more
For those of you who don’t know, there will be two ticketed events at the Writers’ Festival this year. The first is the Reading-Performance by Jennifer Nettles in Presser Hall on Thursday, March 31st at 8pm. The second is the Q & A with Jennifer Nettles, Danzy Senna, and Arda Read more
Arda Collins’s collection of poems, It Is Daylight, won the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Judge Louise Gluck describes the volume as “a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.” Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Reviewand A Public Space. A former Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at Read more
I just finished updating the look of the site with the publicity poster that we’re using this year. What do you think? Want to see the whole thing? I think it looks great! Today is the first day of the Spring semester which means the Writers’ Festival is going Read more
Jennifer Nettles is a triple crown-winning song writer with “song of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards and then best country song at the Grammys” in 2009. We’ve never had a songwriter headline the Festival before, so this is a real Read more
For those who are snowed-in in the Atlanta area, here’s an excerpt from Danzy Senna’s “Mulatto Millenium”… Here. Hope everyone is safe and sound on this cold, snowy day!
After the release of Where Did You Sleep Last Night in 2009, Danzy Senna did an interview with SmithMag on her memoir. Below is an excerpt from the interview on how she chose the name for her memoir. When did you first hear the folk song “Where Did You Sleep Read more
Hello all you litlovers out there! Happy New Year! Here’s to kicking off the semester right and getting started with some Writers’ Festival Guest Profiles! But before I get ahead of myself…Do you know who the guests are this year? As the lovely Agnes Scott Website describes them, they are Read more
