Thank you to everyone who has made this Writers’ Festival such a great success! Big thanks to Agnes Scott College, the English Department, Dr.s Thompson, Cozzens and Dermont, and my fellow students on the Publicity Team — WE DID IT! In addition, here’s to the wonderful guests we had, Danzy Read more
For me, last year was an incredible Festival. I had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time with each of the authors and couldn’t have been happier. From Paul Guest’s hilarious poetry, to Scott Russell Sanders’ heartwarming History of Awe, I was inspired and moved as a student, Read more
I can’t believe that the Writers’ Festival is here! Yesterday we kicked off with Agnes Scott Finalist readings in the Fireplace Lounge and tomorrow is a HUGE day of events! At 1 p.m. our guests will be participating in a Q&A. This is a ticketed event. Check the Alston Information Read more
The Writers’ Festival IS HERE! We kick off tomorrow with a student reading of Finalist work! Check out the facebook event here. Tuesday, March 29 · 4:00pm – 6:00pm Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge, Alston Campus Center Eighteen Agnes Scott students have had their works selected by off-campus judges for the 40th Annual Writers’ Read more
Here’s a clip of Arda Collin’s Poem Pool #13 being read! I think this poem is beautiful and I can’t wait to hear Arda read from her book, It Is Daylight next week. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOb5uFJGKCY]
This year is the 40th Writers’ Festival. The Agnes Scott College Library has created a “LibGuide” for everything Writers’ Festival related and it has quite a few great links on the guests for this Festival. Check it out here.
Here’s a video of Jennifer Nettles on Chelsea Lately. I think it’s quite amusing! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzo9Vwy2qFk] I love what Jennifer says about being an artist and pulling from different mediums to be creative. (It doesn’t hurt that we share a favourite 80’s movie!)
The Writers’ Festival begins in exactly one week (from yesterday)!! I am so excited to have such wonderful artists on Agnes Scott Campus! For those who may be a bit behind the bandwagon, here’s the schedule of events Tuesday, March 29th, 4 – 6 p.m. Luchsinger Lounge — ASC Read more
The very lovely, Miss May May Kaufman is interning with the Decatur Book Festival this year and she has done some advertising for us over at Daren Wang’s blog, VERB. Check out the article on the Writers’ Festival and keep getting excited!
Just wanted to take this time to post some links about Jennifer Nettles. This one is from October 2010, on the release of her band’s new album. This next one is on some of the mysteries behind her, mostly fan-fueled, and how she responds to them. Hope you’re all looking Read more
