While you’re waiting for the Writers’ Festival here at Agnes Scott, I highly encourage everyone to come out to a poetry reading next Tuesday! Adrian Matejka will be joining us on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Fireplace Lounge located in the Student Center. Professor Matejka’s most recent book, Mixology, was selected by Kevin Young for the 2008 National Poetry Series. Hope to see you there!

English Professor, Christine Cozzens sent me a little glimpse of her experience here at Agnes Scott and working with the Writers’ Festival over the years! Enjoy I’ve been a professor in the Agnes Scott English department for 23 years, and so 2010 will mark my 23rd Writers’ Festival (hard to believe!). Each year I still look forward with excitement and curiosity to meet the visiting writers, see what they will be like in person, hear Read more…

I’ve changed the blog just a little bit to make it a bit easier to use and see but I do want to remind everyone to visit Shannon and Olivia over at the Writers’ Festival Design Blog as well!

Scott Russell Sanders studied physics and English at Brown University and, as a Marshall Scholar, completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Cambridge.  In 1971 he joined the faculty of Indiana University, where he taught until 2009, retiring as Distinguished Professor of English. Among his more than twenty books are novels, collections of stories, works of personal nonfiction, and storybooks for children. His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, Read more…

I hope everyone out there is having a wonderful start to the semester but I do want to remind everyone that the Writers’ Festival is coming up at Agnes Scott! Look out for many more posts this semester regarding the Festival!

Don’t forget: the deadline for the Writers’ Festival Contest is TONIGHT at midnight! You may submit up to five poems, two short stories, two creative nonfiction essays, and one one-act play (Samuel French format, please). Submit files to Rachel Trousdale via e-mail (rtrousdale@agnesscott.edu). DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME IN THE FILE. In the e-mail, please include your name, address, phone, e-mail, school you attend, contest categories entered (ie fiction, nonfiction, poem, play), and titles/categories of the entries. Read more…

39th Annual Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival March 25-26, 2010 Thursday, March 25, 8 p.m., Winter Theatre, Dana Reading by Scott Russell Sanders Scott Russell Sanders studied physics and English at Brown University and, as a Marshall Scholar, completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Cambridge.  In 1971 he joined the faculty of Indiana University, where he taught until 2009, retiring as Distinguished Professor of English. Among his more than twenty books are novels, Read more…

We’ve finally kicked off the committee for advertising everything about this year’s Writers’ Festival and I can’t be more excited! So who am “I”? I’m Bhumi Patel, an Agnes Scott student in her sophomore year. I’m currently a double major in English: Creative Writing and Dance. On this blog I’ll be posting information about the Writers, the Festival events, students and professors past experiences as well as a number of other things! Keep on the Read more…