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 Finalists read their works! Thursday, March 31st, 1 p.m. Luchsinger Lounge — Q&A with Jennifer Nettles, Danzy Senna, and Arda Collins Thursday, March 31st, 4 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 forward to her visit and have gotten your tickets!
Check out this article from the University of Denver Magazine from Winter 2009 on Arda Collins’ belief on the importance of poetry. Ask Arda Collins why poetry is important, and the acclaimed poet will be the first to admit it’s not a popular genre that will ever “fly off the shelves.” “I think of it as important in the same way as if you spent a day with someone going to the movies and you Read more
Only three weeks until the 40th Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival! This semester I’m taking Fiction Workshop and I’m really excited to be reading Danzy Senna’s Caucasia. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m loving it so far and I’ll keep you updated when it is finished! On an extremely important note, this year Agnes Scott has 18 finalists in the Writers’ Festival contest — that’s huge for us here at Agnes. Many, many Read more
The Rumpus website features this great interview with Danzy Senna about her work. In addition, this article includes a review of her work, Where did you sleep last night? “We are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell…” Danzy Senna is the author of two novels—Caucasia, which won the 1998 Book-of-the-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and the bestselling psychological thriller Symptomatic (2003). Both deal with the complexities of race Read more
Each Festival, I like to solicit the English Department Professors into telling me stories about previous Festivals that they have attended, and I always learn the most interesting/thrilling/beautiful things about the personalities of visiting authors. Dr. Peggy Thompson, Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English/Chair of the Department, shared with me this morning, a story about Jamaica Kincaid’s visit to Agnes Scott. The campus is usually in full bloom during the Writers’ Festival, and almost every visiting Read more
We’re already at the middle of February — can you believe it? I hope you’ve picked up your ticket for Jennifer Nettles’ Reading or the Author Q&A at the Alston Information Desk. If you haven’t, you should do it soon! This year, Arda Collins will be our visiting poet, and I’m very excited to hear her read! Powell’s Books features a blog entry by Arda Collins about her book, It Is Daylight. In this entry Read more
I hope that some of you made it out to the Tony Morris reading that was this evening! As we approach the Writers’ Festival, I wanted to share another event that’s happening at Agnes Scott. Scott Newstok will be speaking at Agnes Scott on February 22nd, at 7pm in Rebekah Scott Hall. His talk is titled “How Macbeth Became Black”. Check out the flyer below! Hope you can all make it!
Thursday, February 10th at 7pm, Poet Tony Morris will be reading in the Agnes Scott College Fireplace Lounge in the Alston Student Center. Please come out and enjoy this wonderful reading. Professor Morris’s first book of poems, Fugue’s End won the 2004 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award, and was published by Birch Brook Press in September, 2004. His most recent book, Back to Cain, was published by The Olive Press in October, Read more
