Welcome, Chattahoochee Writers Conference!

I very much enjoyed hosting participants in the Chattahoochee Writers Conference on Saturday night. In fact, I enjoyed myself so much that I forgot to take photos!  Not to worry, though, because one of the participants took a photo or two and wrote about the event:
http://wynne-huddleston.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-chattahoochee-valley-writers.html

News from McCullersland

Variety magazine announces news of McCullers biopic:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118024507.html?categoryId=2431&cs=1

Conference registration page up!

We realize that February seems like a long time away, but it'll be here before you know it. And you know you don't want to miss the Carson McCullers conference. Check it out at
http://conted.colstate.edu//CarsonMcCullersConference_.php

Welcome, Jessica Garratt!

The Carson McCullers Center extends the warmest of welcomes to Jessica Garratt, our 2010 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Writing Fellow. Having arrived yesterday, Jessica will spend the next three months in residence at the McCullers House.  Jessica's first book, Fire Pond, won the 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, selected by poet Medbh McGuckian, and was published by the University of Utah Press in April 2009. Currently Jessica is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri where she holds a creative writing fellowship. She also received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin, where she earned her MFA.