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41st Annual Writers' Festival
March 29-30, 2012

A Creative Tradition
Agnes Scott College is known for fostering the creative spirit through the written word and the Writers’ Festival has brought renowned novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists to the campus.

2012 Schedule  

Thursday, March 29
Reading by Benjamin Percy
Winter Theatre
4:00 p.m.
 
Benjamin Percy reception and book signing
The Dalton Gallery
5:00 p.m.
 
Reading by Joy Harjo
Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall
8:00 p.m.
For tickets, call 404 471-6430
 
Joy Harjo reception
Rebekah Scott Hall
9:30 p.m.
 
Friday, March 30
Reading by Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger
Winter Theatre
1:00-2:00 p.m.
 
Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger reception and book signing
Dalton Gallery
2:00 p.m.


* Photo of Benjamin Percy © Jennifer May


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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

 

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