Thank you to everyone for another successful Writers’ Festival! We had amazing turnouts at each event, great audience questions, and lots of books signed. Thank you to everyone who came out to support the Festival and hear our amazing guests. Agnes Scott Finalists’ Reading Tuesday April 5, 2016 Festival Guest Read more…
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…
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…
On Wednesday, October 14, Professor Charlotte Artese will present on her new book Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources (University of Delaware Press, 2015). This Writers & Scholars event will take place at 7 pm in the Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge of the Alston Campus Center at Agnes Scott College. Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that Read more…
The 44th Annual Writers’ Festivals is finally here! Now that our guest writers are here, let us welcome back alumna writer, Jennifer Bartell ’05. Jennifer Bartell graduated from Agnes Scott with a degree in English-Literature & Creative Writing, focusing in poetry and nonfiction. She initially left Agnes thinking she wanted to be a nurse; however, Read more…
Over our winter break, Lightspeed Magazine published an interview with past Writers’ Festival guest Junot Diaz, discussing speculative fiction and his latest book, This is How You Lose Her. It’s a transcript of an interview done on The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which you can listen to here.
In 2006, the Paris Review interviewed Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Peter Carey about his work, especially Theft: A Love Story. Check it out!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSWnmuaOz64] In 2009, Maieutic Theatre Works produced Jacqueline Goldfinger’s The Oath—this video goes behind the scenes of that production, naturally talking about Goldfinger’s script in the process! If you’re interested in more of Goldfinger’s Southern Gothic, check out EXIT 209, her blog that collections all her short fiction in that Read more…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqC629S328] Benjamin Percy interviewed by Max Pearlstein in January of last year.
