Campus Events
2017 Writers’ Festival Events
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…
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Letters About Literature at the Decatur Library
Letters About Literature is a annual nation-wide competition that asks “students in grades 4-12 … to write a letter to the author — living or dead — whose work has had the most impact on their lives or influenced their view of the world.” Tonight, the Decatur Library will be Read more…
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Sheri Joseph at the Decatur Library
Sheri Joseph, a creative writing professor at Georgia State, will be hosting a launch party for her new novel, Where You Can Find Me, tonight at 7:15 PM at the Decatur Library Auditorium. The event is totally free! Here’s the book’s summary, via Amazon: A searing exploration of a family’s struggle Read more…
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Jamie Quatro at the Decatur Library
Jamie Quatro will be reading from her debut collection of short stories, I Want To Show You More, at 7:15 PM tonight at the Decatur Library Auditorium. This is a great opportunity to hear from and support a new Georgia author! Here’s the book’s summary, via Amazon: “A brilliant new voice Read more…
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Jessica Hagy at the Decatur Library
Jessica Hagy, author of the blog Indexed, is promoting her new book How To Be Interesting, and she’ll be talking at the Decatur Library Auditorium tonight at 7:15 PM. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the signing that will follow the talk. Check out the blog that Read more…
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Ayana Mathis at the Decatur Library
Ayana Mathis will be reading from her debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, tonight at the Decatur Library Auditorium (bottom-most level!) at 7:15 PM. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is the first selection by Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. The event is completely free! Here’s the novel’s summary, via Amazon: The newest Oprah’s Read more…
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Tara Conklin at Eagle Eye Bookshop
Tara Conklin will be signing copies of her new book, The House Girl, at Eagle Eye Bookshop (drive up Clairemont, it’s on the left once you see the Publix on your right) tonight at 7 PM. The event is free. Here’s the novel’s summary, via Amazon: Two remarkable women, separated by more Read more…
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Maureen Johnson at Little Shop of Stories
Little Shop of Stories will be hosting young adult author Maureen Johnson today at 2 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel, The Madness Underneath. The book is the second in her Shades of London series, which started with last year’s In the Name of the Star. Here’s the summary, via Amazon: Read more…
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Brandon Sanderson at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center
Author Brandon Sanderson will be signing copies of The Memory of Light, the final book in The Wheel of Time series, at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center tonight at 7:15 PM. Accompanying Sanderson will be series editor Harriet McDougal. Limited edition leatherbound copies of the book will be available. It’s only Read more…