Conference on College

Literary and Visual Arts

Magazines

 

Friday, April 13, 2007

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Tifton, Georgia

 

Schedule of Events

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The Cordell Conference Rooms are in the bottom floor of the Baldwin Library building. All sessions will be held in Cordell A. The Book and Magazine Fair will be held in Cordell C.

 

8:00-9:00    Setup for Book Fair

 

8:30             Registration Begins

 

9:00-10:30  Opening Session

Welcome from ABAC President David Bridges Opening Remarks, Pegasus Advisors

 

Keynote Address: “From Saddle Stapled to Tenure Track: The Student Literary Magazine as Stepping Stone,” Sara Pennington, Editor of The Southeast Review

 

10:45-11:45       “Quality and Identity: Student Magazines Look Beyond the Campus Gates,” Sharan Strange, Opal Moore, Chantal James, Luretha Chames, Rochelle Spencer of Spelman College

 

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Donaldson Dining Hall (included in Registration Fee)

 

1:00-2:00    Performance Poetry, The Black Dog Java Girls: Donna Decker, Lynne Knight, Melanie Rawls, Laura Newton, Mary Jane Ryals of Tallahassee, Florida

 

2:15-3:15    Editors Panel: Roundtable Discussion

 

3:30-4:30    “From Perceptions to the Chestatee Review: The Evolution of the Student Literary Journal at Gainesville State College,” Jack Taylor, Tana Suggs, Dorothy Blais, Anita Turlington of Gainesville State College

 

4:30-5:00    Closing  Session

Information on the College Literary Magazine Association, Pegasus Advisors

             

Open Mike Reading

 

Sponsored by the College Literary Magazine Association, Stafford Fine Arts Series,

ABAC Humanities, and Pegasus, ABAC’s Literary Magazine