Now that you’ve got all your creative writing submitted to the contest check out this event at Agnes Scott tonight! Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and three collections of poetry, Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard—for which she was awarded Read more
Hello again! Don’t forget! Tomorrow, November 15th is the deadline for the Writers’ Festival competition. For more info see http://www.agnesscott.edu/events/writersfestival/creativewritingcompetition.aspx The contest is open to all college and university students in Georgia. Each year students have the opportunity to submit their written works for recognition at the Writers’ Festival. The categories are: Creative Read more
Hello, hello once more to all you literary lovers out there! I’m back to kick off the Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival this year. The Festival takes place at the end of March 2011, but right now we have some big news over here! We are currently accepting submissions for the Read more
This weekend’s Writers’ Festival was a great success thanks to all of the hard work of Agnes Scott College, The English department and all of the students who committed time to helping out with the Festival. On behalf of the Writers’ Festival I would like to give a big thank Read more
The Writers’ Festival is upon on! I hope many of you were able to join us this morning for a lovely reading from the Agnes Scott Finalists for the Creative Writing Competition. If you weren’t able to make it this morning, never fear! There are three events tomorrow that are Read more
Tomorrow officially we kick off the Writers’ Festival here at Agnes Scott with a 10am reading from the Agnes Scott students who are finalists in the Writers’ Festival Creative Writing Competition. I encourage everyone to come out to the event tomorrow morning! Creative Writing Competition: Finalists’ Readings Wednesday, March 24, Read more
The week of the Festival is here! I hope everyone is excited for the events that are going on later this week. Just as a reminder below I’ve included the schedule of events again! Please feel free to comment any questions or concerns you have about the events and I’ll Read more
Grist is an environmental news website that featured an interview with Scott Russell Sanders and I thought it might be fun to share a little bit of this. Below are a few questions and answers from the interview. Check out the full interview here. Q. You write about settling in Read more
As I shared before, From the Fishouse is a great website highlighting up and coming poets and keeping an audio archive of many of their works. Upon my exploration I found a short audio clip of Paul Guest talking about his own writing rituals and I wanted to share! Check Read more
Let me just preface this by saying I will probably post this numerous times over the next week but…here is the schedule of events for the Writers’ Festival which is only seven days away! Scheduled 2010 Writers’ Festival events are free and open to the public including: Reading by writing Read more
