52nd Writers’ Festival Contest Open

Agnes Scott College’s 52nd Annual Writers’ Festival will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 30-31, 2023. Finalist entries in the Steven R. Guthrie Memorial Writers’ Festival Contest will be judged by guest writers Elizabeth Acevedo, Caryl Phillips, and Samantha Jayne Allen ‘11. Contest categories are poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. A prize of $500 will be awarded Read more…

This Week in Celebrating the Writers’ Festival

Good morning, everyone. This week, The New York Times’ A. O. Scott profiles Tilile Olsen in his essay series, The Americans, in which he makes the case that Olsen’s work epitomizes something essential about American literature. Having recently read Yonnondio and remembering the awe I felt reading and teaching “I Stand Here Ironing,” he’s absolutely right! It’s Read more…

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