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This year, the 41st Annual Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival will continue to live up to the standards that have been set by the longest Writers’ Festival in the state. In the past we’ve been able to welcome such guests as Margaret Atwood, Junot Diaz, Jamacia Kincaid, John Updike, and Julia Alvarez to our campus. This year we are looking forward to welcoming three exciting guests coming to campus at the end of March 2012: Joy Read more

Hey everyone, Don’t forget that the WF Contest deadline is tomorrow December 1, 2011! Contest Rules Contest rules appear below. Entries not following these rules will not be considered. For more information, please contact Rachel Trousdale, associate professor of English, at rtrousdale@agnesscott.edu.   This contest is open to anyone currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program in a college or university in the state of Georgia. Works submitted may have been previously published in campus newspapers Read more

Tomorrow evening there will be a reading at Agnes Scott College. We hope to see you there! Stacey Brown Reading her poetry Tuesday, October 11 7 p.m., Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge, Alston Campus Center Book signing to follow Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and received her MFA in Poetry from The University of Oregon. A poet, playwright, and essayist, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, Read more

Benjamin Percy is the author of “The Wilding,” “Refresh, Refresh,” and “The Language of Elk.” Most of his fiction is set in Oregon, where he grew up, and when talking about this as his setting he said, “I close my eyes and naturally go there. That’s my stage. I’ll always have that tether. It’s there every day when I write.” In Publishers’ Weekly, Percy confides that he never dreamed he’d be a writer. Check out Read more

  Joy Harjo is an American poet and musician, who is influenced by her Native American heritage, feminist and social concerns, and her background in the arts. She once commented,  “I feel strongly that I have a responsibility to all the sources that I am: to all past and future ancestors, to my home country, to all places that I touch down on and that are myself, to all voices, all women, all of my Read more