Agnes Scott College is now accepting entries for the 44th annual writers’ festival! The entry deadline is December 1, 2014. Contest categories include poetry, short fiction, personal essay, and one-act play. A prize of $500 will be awarded during the festival to the winning entry in each category. Contest finalists will be notified by email in January. Their work will be included in the Festival Magazine, which is published in March, and they will be Read more

Being Flynn is a beautifully haunting yet captivating film that tells the story of lives falling apart and coming together. It displays the relationship between a man and his father, and how they really don’t have a relationship at all. Like a wire that has been coiled around and around for so long, then suddenly, slowly unravels. On the screen in front of our eyes is the unwinding story of Nick Flynn, one of the Read more

Poet and memoirist Nick Flynn has just finished an engagement at the 10th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival which ran from January 20th-25th. Nick Flynn appeared along with Carolyn Forché, Linda Gregg, Thomas Lux, Campbell McGrath, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Mary Ruefle & Tim Seibles. This Festival had the opportunity to invite one more special guest: current Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway. Nick Flynn will be coming to speak at Agnes Scott College in March for the 43rd Read more

For those of you looking for another place to publish your work, check out the Aurora Arts & Literary Magazine! All Georgia undergraduates are welcome to submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and micro-fiction. http://ow.ly/i/4iTiU

We here at the Writers’ Festival want to congratulate this year’s finalists! In Fiction: Robby Nadler, Jessica Mejia, Halden Ingwersen, Casey Cox, Christopher Hayter In Poetry: Robby Nadler, Sydney Bolding, Diamond Forde, Jacob Collum, William Walsh, Brian Heston, Jessica Melilli-Hand, Hank Backer, Rachelle Bowser In Drama: Heather Poole, Stella Zhou In Nonfiction: Robby Nadler, Sybil McLain-Topel, Vivian K. Phillips, Monica Prince, Karmen Cook We also want to congratulate all of our entrants. Every piece read Read more

As we come into the spring, we want to introduce everyone to our final cast list for this year’s Writers’ Festival! With a new concept and design, this year we have four student artists contributing to the layout of the book. Here’s some sneak peeks: Name: Sebastien Occupation: Firefighter Favorite Author: George Orwell Description: A Romani immigrant in his mid-30s from Romania, he came to the States on asylum years ago. With his experience in Read more

We can count down the days until the 43rd Annual Writer’s Festival at Agnes Scott College, as submissions are being reviewed and finalists will be contacted in January 2014. On Nick Flynn’s website (nickflynn.org) his weeklong residency at Agnes Scott College is listed under his upcoming events. While the Writer’s Festival is from March 27th-28th 2014, each year Agnes Scott holds a Writer’s Festival Seminar taught by one of the visiting writers for the week Read more

This Christmas, we remember the great poet Robert Frost, whose regular visits to Agnes Scott inspired the Writers Festival. Below is one of his poems, “Christmas Trees.” A Christmas Circular Letter The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove A stranger to our yard, who looked the city, Yet did Read more

http://ow.ly/r3VZX Agnes Scott College is proud to welcome Nick Flynn as one of the visiting writers for the 43rd Annual Writer’s Festival, March 27-28 2014. Nick Flynn is a memoirist known for his memoir trilogy Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Ticking is the Bomb, and The Reenactments. Flynn’s most recent memoir, The Reenactments, focuses on his experience with the making of the film Being Flynn that came out in 2012. Being Flynn is Read more