Interview with Former Winner Robby Nadler

In 2015 Robby Nadler won the Writer’s Festival. He is a graduate of UCLA and University of Montana, and he is currently a PhD student at University of Georgia. Interviewer: Why did you decide to enter the Writers’ Festival? Robby Nadler: The first time I entered the contest was simply based on it being a contest, and I thought to myself, why not. However, after becoming a finalist and experiencing the entire festival, I developed a great Read more

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Interview with Former Winner Andrea Rogers

Andrea Rogers won the Agnes Scott Writer’s Festival Poetry Prize in 2015. She is currently a Ph.D. Poetry student at Georgia State University, where she is an Advanced Teaching Fellow. Rogers is currently a writing instructor at GSU and Agnes Scott College, and works as a Writing Consultant at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Outside of teaching and tutoring, she has also worked for literary journals (Five Points, Odradek) and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Her Read more

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Interview with 2014 Winner Stella Zhou

In 2014 Stella Zhou won the Writer’s Festival in the category Dramatic Writing. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in 2015 and is now in Los Angeles attending a screenwriting program at the American Film Institute. Interviewer: What made you enter the Writers’ Festival? Stella Zhou: It was a great opportunity to share my work among more writers. What is the most difficult part of the writing process for you?   The rewriting process.  It’s very Read more

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2016 Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Guests

The forty-fifth annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival will be held April 7-8, 2016. This year we will have three distinguished guest writers on campus to speak to the public: Richard Blanco, Dani Shapiro, and Charleen McClure. Richard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in US history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Born in Madrid to Cuban-exiled parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and Read more

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Writers & Scholars: Poet John Hoppenthaler

John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water(2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U Michigan P, 2012). He received his MFA in Poetry Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and for twelve years he served as Poetry Editor for Kestrel, and for the cultural journal Read more

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Writers & Scholars Event: Monique Truong, Kirk Writer-in-Residence

Please join us for our third Writers & Scholars event of the semester, as Monique Truong, Kirk Writer-in-Residence, gives a reading from her work. Monique Truong is the author of two novels, Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Bitter in the Mouth, one reviewer writes, “uses the tension between outsider and insider as a way of examining a tightly knit, indeed claustrophobic, family and village,” while The Book of Read more

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Writers & Scholars: Professor Charlotte Artese

On Wednesday, October 14, Professor Charlotte Artese will present on her new book Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources (University of Delaware Press, 2015). This Writers & Scholars event will take place at 7 pm in the Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge of the Alston Campus Center at Agnes Scott College. Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that seven plays—The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Read more

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