LITERARY FESTIVAL March 28-30
SOUTHERN Lovers of the written word will want to
set aside March 28-30 to attend Southern Literary Festival 2013. Columbus State University’s Creative Writing program is only three years old; yet, it’s already bring- ing to Columbus both the National Poet Laureate
and Pulitzer Prize-winner in
addition to a National Book Award win- ner. “We’ve got a very special thing going here,” says Nick Norwood, a CSU professor responsible for forming the department. CSU’s Creative Writing department is
hosting the Southern Literary Festival, one of the oldest and most prestigious undergraduate conferences in the nation. Among this year’s list of featured writers are poet Natasha Trethewey and fiction writer Tim O’Brien. Since their placement on the schedule,
Trethewey was named U.S. Poet Laure- ate and O’Brien’s Te Tings Tey Car- ried became 2013’s Big Read Book for the area and the Freshman Common Reader at CSU.
Fiction writer Kevin Wilson, poet
Daniel Albergotti and nonfiction writer Madge McKeithen will also give public readings at the festival. While it is an undergraduate confer-
ence, each writer will have public read- ings and there will also be a public Q &A session with Trethewey and Albergotti. “We encourage students from all area
high schools to attend,” says Norwood. “Anytime you get to listen to Tim
O’Brien or Natasha Trethewey in the same weekend, it’s a good thing,” shares Aaron Sanders, a CSU professor. “Plus there will be opportunities to have personal interactions with these same people. I think this will be something CSU’s creative writing students and all of Columbus will remember.” Events will take place at CSU’s Studio
Theatre of Riverside Theatre Complex with the exception of O’Brien’s reading, which will be held at the Springer Opera House. All events are free and the public is invited. For more information contact
norwood_nick@columbusstate.edu or call 706.569.2507.
Candace Lawrence contributed to this story.
Old Russell County Courthouse
STARLIGHT DANCE April 20
If your dancing shoes have a few miles
leſt on them, head down to Seale where the Old Russell County Courthouse Asso- ciation will hold its twenty-sixth annual Starlight Dance. Tis year’s event will be April 20 starting at 8 p.m. EST. Dance to the music of the Tag Williams Band in the old courtroom, which has one of the best dance floors in the Chattahoochee Valley. Tickets are $25 each. Proceeds from the dance go toward upkeep of the historic building, which was built in 1868 and saved from ruin in the 1970s by a group of local preservation-minded Russell Coun- tians. For more information or tickets call 706.575.5668.
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