Three distinguished authors will be on campus April 4-7, 2017, for Agnes Scott College’s 45th Annual Writers’ Festival, the oldest continuous literary event in Georgia. The 2017 visiting authors are poet Claudia Rankine, writer and poet Patrick Phillips, and Agnes Scott alumna writer, poet Kayla Miller ’11. CLAUDIA RANKINE Claudia Rankine Read more…
We are very excited about this year’s distinguished guests, and we hope that you join us for one or more of the public events listed below. Please note that each of these events are free and open to the public, with no ticket required. Reading by Agnes Scott Student Finalists in the Writers’ Read more…
In 2015 Robby Nadler won the Writer’s Festival. He is a graduate of UCLA and University of Montana, and he is currently a PhD student at University of Georgia. Interviewer: Why did you decide to enter the Writers’ Festival? Robby Nadler: The first time I entered the contest was simply based on Read more…
Andrea Rogers won the Agnes Scott Writer’s Festival Poetry Prize in 2015. She is currently a Ph.D. Poetry student at Georgia State University, where she is an Advanced Teaching Fellow. Rogers is currently a writing instructor at GSU and Agnes Scott College, and works as a Writing Consultant at Emory University’s Read more…
In 2014 Stella Zhou won the Writer’s Festival in the category Dramatic Writing. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in 2015 and is now in Los Angeles attending a screenwriting program at the American Film Institute. Interviewer: What made you enter the Writers’ Festival? Stella Zhou: It was a great opportunity Read more…
Join us for the first Writers & Scholars event of 2016!
The forty-fifth annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival will be held April 7-8, 2016. This year we will have three distinguished guest writers on campus to speak to the public: Richard Blanco, Dani Shapiro, and Charleen McClure. Richard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in US history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, Read more…
John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water(2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U Michigan P, 2012). He received Read more…
