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Writers' Festival

Writers' Festival

42nd Annual Writers' Festival April 4-5, 2013

A Creative Tradition

This year, the 42nd Annual Agnes Scott Writers' Festival will continue to live up to the standards it has set as Georgia's oldest continuously running writers' festival. The college has welcomed such guests as Margaret Atwood, Junot Diaz, Jamaica Kincaid, John Updike and Julia Alvarez to our campus. This year, the festival will welcome three exciting guests to campus at the beginning of April: Gish Jen, Cristina Garcia and Anjail Rashida Ahmad '92.

Past Speakers

Julia Alvarez
Margaret Atwood
Eavan Boland
Peter Carey
James Dickey
Chitra Divakaruni
Rita Dove
Carolyn Forché
Jamaica Kincaid
Li-Young Lee
Gloria Naylor
Anita Desai
Quiara Alegria Hudes
Marsha Norman ’69X, H’05
Joyce Carol Oates
Tim O’Brien
Tillie Olsen
Bapsi Sidhwa
Jane Smiley
John Updike
Robert Penn Warren
Richard Wilbur
Joy Williams
Junot Diaz
Memye Curtis Tucker
and many others