God is an American “I still love words. When we make love in the morning, your skin damp from a shower, the day calms. Shadenfreude may be the best way to name the covering of adulthood, the powdered sugar on a black shirt. I am alone now on the top floor pulled by obsession, the ink on my fingers.” This is the opening few lines of Terrance Haye’s poem “God is an American” published in Read more
The Decatur Library will be hosting an evening with Southern poets at 7:15 PM in the Decatur Library Auditorium, reading from the new book, The Southern Anthology of Poetry: Georgia. Among the poets reading will be Agnes Scotts’ own James May and his wife, Chelsea Rathburn, so come out and support them! This program is totally free.
Letters About Literature is a annual nation-wide competition that asks “students in grades 4-12 … to write a letter to the author — living or dead — whose work has had the most impact on their lives or influenced their view of the world.” Tonight, the Decatur Library will be hosting an awards ceremony for Georgia participants at 2 PM in the Decatur Library Auditorium. They’ll read from their work, and there’ll be a surprise Read more
Sheri Joseph, a creative writing professor at Georgia State, will be hosting a launch party for her new novel, Where You Can Find Me, tonight at 7:15 PM at the Decatur Library Auditorium. The event is totally free! Here’s the book’s summary, via Amazon: A searing exploration of a family’s struggle to heal in the wake of unthinkable tragedy A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, Read more
Jamie Quatro will be reading from her debut collection of short stories, I Want To Show You More, at 7:15 PM tonight at the Decatur Library Auditorium. This is a great opportunity to hear from and support a new Georgia author! Here’s the book’s summary, via Amazon: “A brilliant new voice in American fiction has arrived. Bright, sharp, startling, utterly distinctive, passionate, and secretive, Quatro’s stories are missives from deep within the landscape of American womanhood. Read more
The last event for the 42nd Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival will be Anjail Rashida Ahmad’s reading in the Winter Theatre in the Dana Fine Arts Building at 1 PM today. The event will be followed by a reception and a book signing. Ahmad is Agnes Scott Class of ’92, so come support your fellow Scottie!
Today’s a huge day for the 42nd Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival—I hope you’re prepared to run around campus. Things get started at 12:30 PM in the Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge with a reception for our contest finalists. At 1 PM, our visiting writers will field any questions you might have about the writing process, publishing, or anything else (within reason, of course!). The Q & A is also in the Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge. At 4 PM, join us in the Winter Read more
Join us in the Luchsinger Fireplace Lounge in the Alston Student Center this evening at 5 PM to hear Agnes Scott’s finalists in the writing contest read their work! Come and support our Scottie writers.
Join us in the Buttrick Film Room (G-4) at 1 PM today to hear faculty read their work, including Christine Cozzens and James May. This event will get you psyched for the Writers’ Festival next week!
Jessica Hagy, author of the blog Indexed, is promoting her new book How To Be Interesting, and she’ll be talking at the Decatur Library Auditorium tonight at 7:15 PM. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the signing that will follow the talk. Check out the blog that started it all here!
