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Agnes Scott Writers' Festival - Reading by Author Benjamin Percy

Noted author Benjamin Percy will speak at Agnes Scott College on March 29 at 4 p.m. in the Winter Theatre, Dana Fine Arts Building for Agnes Scott’s 41st Annual Writers’ Festival, the oldest continuous literary event in Georgia.

The event is free and open to the public. There will be a book signing following the event.

Percy is the author of a novel, The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Fiction; and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006). His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space and published by Esquire, where he is a regular contributor, Men's Journal, Outside, the Paris Review, Tin House, Chicago Tribune, Orion, GQ, Men's Health, The Wall Street Journal, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and many other magazines and journals.

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His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. He is at work on his second novel, a psychological thriller titled Red Moon. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University.

Held annually since 1972, Agnes Scott’s Writers’ Festival brings nationally acclaimed writers to campus in an atmosphere of community with student writers from the colleges and universities of Georgia. Past visiting writers to the festival include Eudora Welty, Julia Alvarez, Anita Desai, Junot Diaz, Suzan-Lori Parks, Percival Everett, Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, Michael S. Harper and Marsha Norman ’69x, H’05.

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