About 10 ASU authors will be featured in this year’s Arts in the Heart of Augusta festival, Sept. 19-21, with Dr. Robert Parham, dean of the Pamplin College of Arts and Sciences, kicking off the events in the Literary Café. Dr. Parham, who also serves as editor of the Southern Poetry Review, will present a program at the Meet and Greet Author Reception, 6-9 p.m., on Friday, Sept. 19, in the café. Saturday’s events run from 11 a.m. through 8:45 p.m., beginning with a panel discussion at 11 a.m., Publishers Perspective for Writers.
The panel will address the publishing process from the publishers’ perspective, from query letter to advances and contracts and will feature three publishers/editors. At noon, Dr. Jim Garvey, chair of the Department of Communications and Professional Writing; Professor Michael Searles, Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy; and Ms. Karen Gillespie will discuss How to Find Success as a Writer, giving tips on various ways writers can find their successful niche. At 2 p.m., Professor Doug Joiner, communications and professional writing, will present Forbidden Broadway, a spoof of Broadway hits; from 3-3:45 p.m., Dr. Hubert van Tuyll, chair of the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy, and Dr. Debra van Tuyll, Department of Communications and Professional Writing, will discuss On Writing and Researching the Civil War; and from 4-4:45 p.m., Professor Nancy Sutherland, Department of English and Foreign Languages, and Lynette Samuel, Children’s Literature Panel. From 5-5:45 p.m., Dr. Lee Ann Caldwell, director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History, will speak on Writing and Researching the History of Augusta; from 6-6:45 p.m., Rick Davis, Department of Communications and Professional Writing, will present a monologue he authored, The Sword Swallower’s Husband. The evening concludes with a 7 p.m. concert. On Sunday, Sept. 21, book signings begin at noon, and at 2:30, Dr. Ted Atkinson, Department of English and Foreign Languages, will read from his book Faulkner and The Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics.
The Literary Café is being sponsored by the university and the event is being coordinated by Ms. Leza Witherington, Department of Communications and Professional Writing.
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