Category: Creative Writing
Young Artists Set to Wrap BLUR Debut
On July 9, 26 high school students representing 13 states will say goodbye after spending three weeks together — three intensive weeks among kindred spirits at Sweet Briar College’s first Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists. The residential program was held on the College’s 3,250-acre campus, where in their free time participants could take [...]
Junior is Indonesia Bound for Summer Internship
Sweet Briar College junior Corinne Adams of Acton, Mass., is preparing to spend her summer helping to prevent domestic violence as an intern at a women’s crisis center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Adams, who is majoring in English and creative writing with a minor in government, won the competitive grant from the Freeman Indonesian Non-profit Internship [...]
Conference Brings Wealth of Writers to Campus
Student writers who have been chosen from among their peers at colleges and universities across the country will gather at Sweet Briar College to take part in an intensive four-day workshop. Sweet Briar’s third annual Creative Writing Conference for undergraduates will be held Thursday, April 7 through Sunday, April 10 at the Elston Inn Conference [...]
Students Invited to Poetry Symposium
Four Sweet Briar students were invited to present original poetry or papers on poetry at Virginia Military Institutes’s fourth annual Poetry Symposium. This year’s symposium, which focused on war poetry, began Friday, March 4 with a reading by Iraq War poet Brian Turner, author of the award-winning “Here, Bullet” (2005). A winner of the Alice [...]
2010 Alumna Nominated for Pushcart
Carina Finn ’10, currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program in poetry at the University of Notre Dame, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, an annual award that recognizes the best poetry, short fiction and literary nonfiction published each year by independent presses and magazines. Selections from Finn’s poem cycle “I Heart [...]
Students spend time with best-selling author for Q&A
Writer Rebecca Skloot spent time answering questions for a roomful of students, faculty and staff at Sweet Briar on Monday afternoon, just a few hours ahead of her scheduled public lecture in Murchison Lane Auditorium on Nov. 8. She is the author of the best-selling “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”
A true story of immortal life
Sweet Briar College will host a lecture and book signing by Rebecca Skloot, author of the best-selling “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 in Murchison Lane Auditorium. Admission is free.
Faculty Publications
Rob Granger Linus Books recently released two textbooks by professor of chemistry Rob Granger, entitled “Chemistry: A Decidedly Pre- Organic Approach” and “Chemistry: An Introduction to Advanced Topics.” The set is designed for an emerging curricular trend in college chemistry, which splits the general chemistry curriculum in two with organic chemistry sandwiched in between. The [...]
Carrie Brown: The Best American Short Stories
The 2010 edition of “The Best American Short Stories,” released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, lists Carrie Brown’s “A Splendid Life” among its most notable stories of the year. The list appears at the back of the printed edition, now available in stores and online. This prestigious series has been printing anthologies of American authors’ most [...]
Basbanes Award Recognizes Students for Book Collections
Sweet Briar College students Sarah Strapp and Laura Dietrich were recognized recently as winners of the College’s annual Nicole Basbanes Student Book Collecting Contest.
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