Join The English Department in celebrating the 52nd Annual Writers’ Festival next Thursday and Friday! At long last, we are thrilled to be able to commemorate and mark this milestone with you. We hope you enjoy the lineup of events we’ve scheduled through which to look back at the Festival’s Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
The 44th Annual Writers’ Festivals is finally here! Now that our guest writers are here, let us welcome back alumna writer, Jennifer Bartell ’05. Jennifer Bartell graduated from Agnes Scott with a degree in English-Literature & Creative Writing, focusing in poetry and nonfiction. She initially left Agnes thinking she wanted to be a nurse; however, Read more…
