This weekend’s Writers’ Festival was a great success thanks to all of the hard work of Agnes Scott College, The English department and all of the students who committed time to helping out with the Festival. On behalf of the Writers’ Festival I would like to give a big thank you to Scott Russell Sanders, Paul Guest and Sarah Scoles for coming out to Agnes Scott College and sharing their gifts with us. Finally, I Read more
The Writers’ Festival is upon on! I hope many of you were able to join us this morning for a lovely reading from the Agnes Scott Finalists for the Creative Writing Competition. If you weren’t able to make it this morning, never fear! There are three events tomorrow that are sure to sate the hungriest of literary appetites. The afternoon will begin with a Q and A with guest authors, Scott Russell Sanders, Paul Guest and Read more
Tomorrow officially we kick off the Writers’ Festival here at Agnes Scott with a 10am reading from the Agnes Scott students who are finalists in the Writers’ Festival Creative Writing Competition. I encourage everyone to come out to the event tomorrow morning! Creative Writing Competition: Finalists’ Readings Wednesday, March 24, 10 a.m. Amelia Davis Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge, Alston Campus Center Fiction: Justine Schwartz, “The Dog Catcher” Michelle Haddad, “Mercy” Nonfiction: Joanna Carver, “The Passerby” Kayla Read more
The week of the Festival is here! I hope everyone is excited for the events that are going on later this week. Just as a reminder below I’ve included the schedule of events again! Please feel free to comment any questions or concerns you have about the events and I’ll either have an answer or find an answer for you! Scheduled 2010 Writers’ Festival events are free and open to the public including: Reading by Read more
Grist is an environmental news website that featured an interview with Scott Russell Sanders and I thought it might be fun to share a little bit of this. Below are a few questions and answers from the interview. Check out the full interview here. Q. You write about settling in southern Indiana in 1971 and trying to be a conscientious citizen since then. How have you seen the environmental movement, or attitudes toward conservation, change Read more
As I shared before, From the Fishouse is a great website highlighting up and coming poets and keeping an audio archive of many of their works. Upon my exploration I found a short audio clip of Paul Guest talking about his own writing rituals and I wanted to share! Check it out here. Don’t forget that Paul Guest will be reading Thursday, March 25th at 4 p.m. in the Julia Thompson Smith Chapel. There will Read more
Let me just preface this by saying I will probably post this numerous times over the next week but…here is the schedule of events for the Writers’ Festival which is only seven days away! Scheduled 2010 Writers’ Festival events are free and open to the public including: Reading by writing contest finalists from Agnes Scott Wed, Mar 24, 2010, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Alston Campus Center, Amelia Davis Luchsinger Lounge Q and A with Read more
Scott Russell Sanders arrived on campus today and dined with students and professors in Evans Dining Hall. I, myself, had the privilege of having lunch with Mr. Sanders and I can’t be more ecstatic that he is here at Agnes Scott! If you see him around campus be sure to welcome him, he’s really quite nice! Below is an excerpt from a short story by Sarah Scoles featured in Fringe Magazine in their Fall ’09 Read more
From the Fishouse is a website that features emerging poets and an audio archive of many of their works. Paul Guest is featured on this page and I definitely recommend you check it out! Below is an excerpt from one of Guest’s poems, Lullaby. To hear the audio clip of the poem visit page here. I care even less for it , it must be said, tonight, while you sleep on the couch, your body Read more
