Words Awake 2!

Get ready! Words Awake is back!

Wake Forest reprises WordsAwake!, the alumni/ae-faculty-staff celebration of Wake Forest writing past, present, and future,April 8-9 on the Reynolda Campus.  There will be presentations on the history of writers in NC (including at Wake Forest); panels on literacy issues both local and national; the challenges in writing about “ISMs” (racism, sexism, homophobia, more); and how to think about and prepare for an MFA graduate program in writing.  Recent NC Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti will read, as will student winners of the Wake Up to Poetry competition.  Also presenting will be the student participants in the 2016 ZSR Writers Camp.  A Hall of Fame banquet and Poetry/Spoken Word Slam! are also included.  All events free and open to the public.  Come meet and engage professional writers from around the world who are here to give back to their alma mater.  (Over 25 of these authors will be out in WSFC schools on April 8 offering readings, workshops, and inspiration.)  Friday night at Byrum Hall; all day Saturday in the Benson Center.

For more information visit http://wordsawake.events.wfu.edu/ or call Tom Phillips, x 5180.