In this piece, Jiahui Zheng, Agnes Scott ’15, shares her experiences attending a Native American dance with last year’s Writers’ Festival guest and lecturer Jay Harjo.
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Here’s the schedule for today’s Writers’ Festival events! 1:00 PM: Reading by Jacqueline Goldfinger Winter Theatre Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building 2:00 PM: Jacqueline Goldfinger Reception and Book Signing The Dalton Gallery Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building See you there!
Here’s today’s schedule of events for the Writers’ Festival! 4:00 PM: Reading by Benjamin Percy Winter Theatre Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building 5:00 PM: Benjamin Percy Reception and Book Signing The Dalton Gallery Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building 8:00 PM: Reading by Joy Harjo Gaines Chapel Presser Hall 9:30 PM: Joy Harjo Reception and Book Signing Katharine Woltz Reception Room Rebekah Scott Hall See you there!
Don’t forget to attend the Writers’ Festival Finalists Reading today at 4 PM in the Luchsingers Lounge in the Alston Campus Center!
Check it out—Agnes Scott librarian Casey Long has compiled a guide for the 2012 Writers’ Festival, including profiles for each author and links to their work!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSWnmuaOz64] In 2009, Maieutic Theatre Works produced Jacqueline Goldfinger’s The Oath—this video goes behind the scenes of that production, naturally talking about Goldfinger’s script in the process! If you’re interested in more of Goldfinger’s Southern Gothic, check out EXIT 209, her blog that collections all her short fiction in that genre.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqC629S328] Benjamin Percy interviewed by Max Pearlstein in January of last year.
Every year the Center for Writing and Speaking at Agnes Scott hosts a reading for the student finalists from ASC! Big shout out to the CWS for putting this together and we hope to see you there!
I just realized this hadn’t been published here! Here’s the long awaited list: We are pleased to announce that the finalists are: Drama: Will Carter, “Anthropophagy,” Oglethorpe Phoebe Perry, “The Qi to Success,” Agnes Scott College Mark Willard, “Within the Shadows,” UGA Poetry: Hank Backer, “Unions,” GSU Sydney Bolding, “Epilogue” U West Georgia Jennifer Brown, “Penguins,” GSU Alicia Marie Brandewie, “Pearls,” Emory Trista Marie Edwards, “Seventeen” and “Safeword,” U West Georgia Laura Nelray Lilly, “Goodnight, Read more
