February ‘First Wednesdays’ Showcases Students’ Work

From staff reports

A “First Wednesdays” event featuring readings by Sweet Briar College students will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the Wailes Lounge at the Florence Elston Inn & Conference Center.

The reading is sponsored by “Red Clay,” the College’s literary journal. Students who will read from their work include Emma Meador ‘09, Melissa Hardison ‘08 and students in the fiction and creative non-fiction classes.

Admission is free, and a reception will follow.

In addition, The Inklings, a student literary club on campus, will be collecting books for the Camel Book Drive. Children’s books in English, as well as young adult and adult literature, are needed.

The books will be shipped to Kenya and carried by camel to their final destinations. Donations for shipping costs will also be accepted.

For more information on the monthly “First Wednesdays” series, contact Carrie Brown, SBC’s Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence, at Ext. 6236 or cbrown@sbc.edu .