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The Fifth Annual Arts & Letters Festival is Thursday-Saturday, March 20-22, 2003. Li-Young Lee, Rosa Shand, and Natasha Trethewey are among our guests for the festival, which features the spring 2003 issue of Arts & Letters. Our 2002 prize-winning play “Blood Memory” by Chuck Spoler appears in that issue, as well as an interview with the drama prize final judge John Guare (author of Six Degrees of Separation). Mr. Spoler will attend the production of his play at the 2003 festival. For details about our festival guests, the festival schedule, the Georgia Poetry Circuit High School workshops on Friday, Saturday morning workshops with visiting writers, and festival registration, see below. Festival Writers Information Print the Festival Registration Form

Li-Young Lee highlights the 2003 Arts & Letters Festival Participants at the Festival may visit Andalusia, the family farm where Milledgeville native Flannery O’Connor wrote most of her mature fiction, and other historic Milledgeville sites

Rosa Shand is the author of The Gravity of Sunlight, a 2000 New York Times Notable Book Natasha Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Prize in 1999, selected by Rita Dove. Info on Festival Writers

Thursday, March 20 6:00 p.m. • Courtyard Buffet & Reception 7:30 p.m. • Li-Young Lee Friday, March 21 Morning • Visit Historic Milledgeville 12:30 p.m. • Lunch with Novelist Rosa Shand 1:30 p.m. • A Reading by Rosa Shand 2:30 p.m. • Open Readings 4:00 p.m. • Visit Downtown Restaurants 8:00 p.m. • Arts & Letters Prize Play Saturday, March 22 8:00 a.m. • Check-in at GC&SU Welcome Center 9:00 a.m. • Workshops with Li-Young Lee, Rosa Shand, Natasha Trethewey, GC&SU’s MFA faculty 12:00 p.m. • Picnic Lunch with Visiting Writers 1:00 p.m. • A Reading by Natasha Trethewey 2:00 p.m. • Open Readings 8:00 p.m. • Encore Performance of Prize Play

Many events at the festival take place in the College of Arts & Sciences Building, home of GC&SU’s MFA program in the Department of English, Speech & Journalism. Other events take place off campus, including Allen’s Market, restored and renovated by Milledgeville/Baldwin County Allied Arts. Festival Registration Form

GC&SU Campus in Spring Festival participants will have opportunities to explore the GC&SU campus, which is in the heart of Milledgeville’s downtown historic district. There are many nearby hotels that offer reasonable rates. For more information about the GC&SU and the Milledgeville community, see below. Front Campus at Night

The Arts & Letters Festival is open to all participants. Readings by our featured guests on Thursday night (Li-Young Lee), Friday afternoon (Rosa Shand), and Saturday afternoon (Natasha Trethewey) are free & open to the public. The Georgia Poetry Circuit High School Workshops are also free but require that students register for the program (see information below). Prize-winning Play tickets (as available) may be purchased separately ($5 for adults, $2 for students). Festival Registration includes: Thursday Buffet/Reception with Li-Young Lee Friday afternoon luncheon with Rosa Shand Prize-Winning Play Performance Saturday morning workshop (choose one) Saturday afternoon picnic lunch Participation in Open Readings Copy of spring 2003 issue of Arts & Letters Print the Festival Registration Form Registration: $65 general admission, $35 students; checks payable to “GC&SU”

The Arts & Letters Festival and Arts & Letters Journal are supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly. The council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more about the Georgia Council for the Arts. Authors’s books will be available at GC&SU’s PawPrints Bookstore and also at readings. Festival Registration Form

David Muschell is the Workshops Coordinator and drama editor for Arts & Letters Natasha Trethewey is our special guest. She will meet with students to talk about poetry and read from her poems. Info on Festival Writers

The Georgia Poetry Circuit sponsors workshops for high school students at the Arts & Letters Festival. The workshops are conducted by faculty and students in our Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, and our featured guest this year is Natasha Trethewey, a distinguished poet who teaches at Emory University in Atlanta. Registration for these workshops is limited and usually arranged by students’ teachers. For more information, contact Professor David Muschell, the workshops coordinator, at (478) 445-4018, or by e-mail. Information about Prizes for High School Writers “The Write Moves” Summer Workshops

GC&SU’s Creative Writing students edit The Peacock’s Feet, participate in readings both on and off campus, compete for writing awards, and may major in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Click here for information about our undergraduate program. The Write Moves workshops for high school students now offer upgraded housing. Follow the link for more information.

A short drive from downtown is Lockerly Arboretum and Lockerly Hall. Memory Hill Cemetery is just three blocks from downtown. Georgia College & State University is home to only the second MFA in Creative Writing Program in the state, and is Georgia’s Public Liberal Arts University. In 2001, GC&SU became only the 19th member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, joining such other schools as the College of Charleston, the Evergreen State College, Sonoma State University, and UNC at Asheville. Learn more about the MFA in Creative Writing at GC&SU

Milledgeville was Georgia’s state capital from 1803 to 1868 and is the home of many historic sites. Georgia College & State University, a member of the University System of Georgia, is the state’s public liberal arts university and alma mater to distinguished author Flannery O’Connor. Downtown Milledgeville features many restaurants, taverns and shops, as well as historic homes and other sites. Convention & Visitor’s Bureau web site Georgia College & State University Directions, Maps, and other Information About Flannery O’Connor News About Other Arts & Letters events

The Marlor House Arts Center is the home of Allied Arts, just across the street from Allen’s Market The Milledgeville and Baldwin County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau conducts trolley tours of the town. A new tour is now available to Andalusia, the family farm where Flannery O’Connor lived and wrote. The Old Governor’s Mansion is currently being restored (circa 1850’s condition)

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