We would like to extend our thanks, gratitude, and appreciation of the following people for their help in making the Festival a wonderful success: The English Department plans and advises the Festival every year; and their advice and creativity make it the wonderful event it is. This year Professor Nicole Read more…
The results are in! Our contest winners were announced on Thursday, April 6 prior to Claudia Rankine’s reading. We thank each of our finalists for their submissions, and send many congratulations to our winners! Each winner was awarded a $500 prize, which is made possible by our donors’ generous support. Read more…
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…
We’re a little over a week away from the 46th Annual ASC Writers’ Festival! Mark your calendars today!
Kamilah Aisha Moon won the 25th Annual Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival contest in Poetry in 1997. Since then, she’s established herself as a serious and published poet, and now is returning to Agnes Scott this fall as an instructor. Kamilah will join the ASC English Department as an Assistant Professor Read more…
Storify is a great platform to share a variety of content from across the web. Check out our story by intern Abigail Biles, and then, during this year’s festival, share your memories with us to help our story grow! https://storify.com/abbajane/the-agnes-scott-writers-festival
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…
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…
