Great writers, readers, fans and friends will gather on three Wednesday nights this October for the Fall Literary Festival at the University of South Carolina. Now in its twenty-second year, the festival continues to bring unique and inspiring writing voices to campus.
This year, the virtual festival welcomes children’s and young adult book author Jacqueline Woodson, poet Robyn Schiff and Aminatta Forna, novelist and memoirist. The festival events begin at 7 p.m. on three consecutive Wednesdays in October.
Schiff, our second guest, will read Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Robyn Schiff is the author of three poetry collections, Worth, Revolver, and A Woman of Property. Published in 2016, A Woman of Property was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune and selected as an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere. In 2016 she was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. Schiff is also co-editor of Canarium Books, a small press dedicated to the publication of books of poetry.
The Fall Literary Festival is a partnership between University Libraries and the Department of English, supported by the generous legacy of Libraries’ friend Dorothy B. Smith. Mrs. Smith was a lifelong book lover who wanted to share her passion with others. The festival is free and just one of many university programs she and her family make possible.