Etowah Valley Writers Institute To Host Nationally Acclaimed Authors

WALESKA, GA -- Reinhardt University’s Etowah Valley Writers Institute will bring an impressive lineup of nationally recognized authors to the school's campus in Waleska.

The Institute will host events featuring authors Richard Blanco, Stephane Dunn, Christopher Dickey and more this summer.

Blanco, the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in American history, opens the 2017 series at 7:30 p.m. July 6 in the Dobbs Science Building on Reinhardt’s campus. The July 6-14 events will include Dunn, whose comments and writings have appeared in national media, including NPR, The Atlantic and CNN.com.

Dunn is director of the Morehouse College Cinema, Television and Emerging Media Studies Program.
Christopher Dickey will kick off the James Dickey Colloquium July 12. This event will celebrate author James Dickey on Reinhardt’s campus, which also is home to the “James Dickey Review.”

"The writing program brings together some of the best writers in the country to discuss techniques on how to tell a better story, how to be more creative, how to pull a reader into your life/story and grab them," said Bill Walsh of Reinhardt's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. "We have poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, creative non-fiction, all areas of interest."

Other notable authors include Earl Braggs, George Singleton, Leon Stokesbury, John Holman, Anne Corbitt, Dr. Pearl McHaney, Dr. Tom McHaney, David Bottoms and Ellen Malphrus.

All summer readings are free and open to the public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Dobbs Science Building on the Reinhardt campus, unless otherwise noted. More information on the Etowah Valley Writers Institute, including featured writer and application information, can be found online.

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