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2009-09-21 Annual Reece Lecture to Feature Alumni Writers Panel
Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Denise Cook
(706) 379-5237, bdcook@yhc.edu
Young Harris College’s Annual Reece Lecture to Feature Alumni Writers Panel
YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – The Annual Reece Lecture at Young Harris College will feature an alumni writers panel of Jeremy Collins, Meg Franklin and Rosemary Royston on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. in Wilson Lecture Hall of Goolsby Center on the Young Harris College campus. Presented by the Division of Humanities, the event is free and open to the public.
Jeremy Collins graduated from Young Harris College in 1997 before attending the University of Georgia, where he graduated with degrees in English and religious studies. He later attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he received his M.F.A. in creative writing. In 2007, his essay “Shadow Boxing” was published in The Georgia Review. The essay was later chosen for a Pushcart Prize and republished in the 2009 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Jeremy and his wife, Alice, currently reside in Knoxville, Tenn., where he is at work on a memoir about friendship, loss and his time at Young Harris College.
After joint enrolling at Young Harris College her junior and senior years of high school, Meg Franklin received her B.A. from Washington and Lee University. She then received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared in Stand, Fourteen Hills, Salamander, Contrary and Harpur Palate.
Rosemary Royston lives in northeast Georgia. She graduated from Young Harris College in 1989 and then graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She completed her M.A. degree in organizational management with the University of Phoenix in 2003 and will complete her M.F.A. in poetry with Spalding University in November 2009. Her work has been published in The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag and Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine. She has also had one of her poems featured in a Rollins Planetarium show at Young Harris College. Royston has taught “Tools of the Craft” at the Institute for Continuing Learning at Young Harris College.
Creative writing students at Young Harris College will have the opportunity to meet with the alumni writers on Tuesday afternoon prior to the lecture.
About Young Harris College
Founded in 1886, Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia. Historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts education. Long known for nurturing students during the first two years of college, Young Harris College received accreditation in 2008 to grant bachelor’s degrees. The College currently has approximately 700 students across four divisions—Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Science—and plans to increase enrollment to 1,200 over the next few years. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing major campus improvements to accommodate the College’s growth. For more information, visit www.yhc.edu.
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