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| October 17, 2014 - October 19, 2014 |
Time:
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Location: Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center
Auburn Writers Conference: The Inspired South
October 17-18, 2014
The Auburn Writers Conference presents our 5th annual gathering of writers and readers, October 17th and 18th in Auburn, Alabama. We’re calling it The Inspired
South, but we’re talking about more than a geographic location. Whether local, global, or diasporic, the writers living in the South, and those whose roots are in the South, find in this place a particular richness that keeps the neurons firing and
the ink running. The authors that have called the South home are known to us formally—Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Natasha Tretheway—and informally, too, as if we might call them kin—“Buddy” Nordan, “Nelle” Lee. It’s a place that carries the troubled weight
of history along. It’s a place that bears witness. It’s a place that knows the value of sweet tea in a cold, sweating glass. It’s Muscle Shoals and Little Five Points, Nashville and Savannah, Baton Rouge and Tuscaloosa. It’s gleaming new buildings and bumpy
clay roads. It’s poets and memoirists, graphic novelists and short story writers, bringing all of these things together in new and important ways. It’s The Inspired South, and it’s happening in Auburn, Alabama this fall. You don’t want to miss
it.
For more information, visit: http://cla.auburn.edu/awc/
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