Hello everyone! This year, joining us on campus will be Joy Harjo, Benjamin Percy, and Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger for the 41st Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival! We’re so excited to have these amazing writers on campus with us come March 2012 and we’re already getting the buzz going around campus. Look out for some information on each of these writers in the coming days!
This is coming up at Agnes Scott College and I hope to see all of you there!
Happy third birthday to the WF blog! We’ve just started the year over here at Agnes Scott and we’re already getting pumped up for the Writers’ Fest! Look out in the next week for info on the writers, a new layout for this year and so much more! This is my last year here at Agnes so this blog will be in both my hands and another’s for this year so that we’ll have a Read more
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 Senna, Arda Collins, and Agnes Scott Alum, Jennifer Nettles. I had such a beautiful experience the two days of the Festival and I couldn’t believe 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, writers, and thinker. I’m really looking forward to getting the chance to speak with the writers that are coming to campus because I’m always striving 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 Desk for ticket availability. Come out at 4 p.m. to the Winter Theatre to hear Danzy Senna read. There will be a booksigning and reception 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’ Festival Contest and Magazine in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, one-act play, and songwriting. They will read excerpts from their works at this reading. 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!)
