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Georgia Perimeter College

Georgia Perimeter College, the third largest institution of the University System of Georgia, serves more than 20,000 students through six locations in metro Atlanta, Alpharetta, Clarkston, Dunwoody, Decatur, Lawrenceville and Newton County. GPC boasts one of the most diverse populations in the USG system, with students representing more than 140 countries. GPC offers degrees in 39 liberal arts programs; degrees and certificates in career programs; Continuing Education and Corporate Training Certificate Programs. We are one of the top 100 associate degree-granting institutions in the nation and the 20th fastest-growing two-year college in the United States. GPC offers the most online courses of any educational institution in Georgia, and has the most Joint Enrollment students. The Chattahoochee Review literary magazine is a nationally recognized literary journal sponsored by Georgia Perimeter College. Our purpose, a twenty-five year literary tradition, is to publish original writing of literary merit. Each quarter, we publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, literary criticisms; everything you've come to expect from a celebrated literary magazine. The Writers Institute brings together the College's writers and literary publications to create a new center for the literary arts at GPC.

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  • Lita Hooper is joined by other academicians to read from her poem, *The Journal of Sojourner Truth*. The poem is based on *The Narrative of Sojourner Truth* by Olive Gilbert, and brings to life a woman's journey from slavery to freedom.
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  • Author Karin Slaughter talks off the cuff about her latest installment, *Fractured*. This event comes to AFN from The Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College and the Atlanta Writers Club.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Georgia Perimeter College honors student Victoria White presents her work on how Chinese propaganda was used by that government to help control the behavior of its citizenry. The event is part of the *The 20th Annual Dr. Francine King Social Science Colloquium*.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Afghan American novelist Khaled Hosseini discusses *A Thousand Splendid Suns*, the follow-up to his best-seller, *The Kite Runner*. The new book is another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Writer Jack Riggs discusses his journey to "discovering" the novel *When the Finch Rises*, how the historical and social issues of the time (1968), as well as those of the present, influenced the writing.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Lawrence Hill talks about his new book, *Someone Knows My Name* at The Writers Institute of Georgia Perimeter College. Also known as *The Book of Negroes* in Canada, it is a work of fiction based on an actual British ledger of the same name that lists black loyalists who were relocated after the American Revolutionary War.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Luis Alberto Urrea, a member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction discusses his latest novel, *The Hummingbird's Daughter*, set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. By addressing historical and cross-cultural issues in his fiction and presentation, Urrea provides insight into the controversy that surrounds immigration today. Co-sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Jill McCorkle shares what she thinks is distinctive about the South, including humor, nostalgia, iced tea, and the fine art of storytelling. This is the keynote address of Georgia's 2006 Townsend Prize for Fiction. The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially to the Georgia writer judged to have published the best work of fiction in the previous two years. The prize was founded in 1980 in honor of founding editor of Atlanta Magazine, Jim Townsend. Past recipients include respected Georgia authors Celestine Sibley, Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, and others. Books are brought to the attention of the judges through communication from publishers, agents, and in some cases authors themselves. The final nominees are then selected by The Chattahoochee Review.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Lutheran minister Bradley Schmeling discusses the political, social, and moral ramifications of being an openly gay pastor.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • Terry Kay and Judson Mitcham, both winners of the Townsend Prize, are celebrated for combining powerful language and a keen insight into humanity in their work.
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    Georgia Perimeter College