Over our winter break, Lightspeed Magazine published an interview with past Writers’ Festival guest Junot Diaz, discussing speculative fiction and his latest book, This is How You Lose Her. It’s a transcript of an interview done on The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which you can listen to here.
The Center for Student Engagement will be hosting a discussion on Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl on February 19th at 1 PM in Alston 216. The book is in the public domain and available online here.
Author Tananarive Due will be giving a fiction reading tomorrow night in Dana at 7 PM. A book signing will follow the event. Due is the author of twelve novels, as well as a recipient of the NAACP Image Award. The event is free, so you’ve got no excuse!
In 2006, the Paris Review interviewed Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Peter Carey about his work, especially Theft: A Love Story. Check it out!
Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Eavan Boland reads her poem, “The Wife’s Lament“.
In 2009, Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Julia Alverez was awarded the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award by Montgomery College; Professor Heurgo interviews the author.
Earlier this year, Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her was released; the Rumpus interviews the author about his new novel and his past work.
Contrast and compare Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Joyce Carol Oates’ “A Long Way Home“, written when she was just seventeen, to a much more recent work, “I.D.“, from 2010.
Check out this 2011 short story by previous Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival guest Margaret Atwood.
Megan Cieri ’13 is a senior creative writing major who took Joy Harjo’s weeklong writing workshop during the 2012 Writers Festival. I sat down with Megan to talk about her experiences with Harjo, Native American poet, writer, and musician. Harjo is the author of the recently-released memoir Crazy Brave, as well as many other collections of poetry, music albums, children’s books, and memoirs.
