WILSON, N.C. — Sept. 26, 2024 — Barton College is excited to welcome fiction writer and essayist Marjorie Hudson as the featured speaker for the 2024 Joyce T. Boone Southern Authors Series Lecture this fall. The program will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in Howard Chapel on campus. This event is open to the public at no charge, and the community is invited to attend.
About the Speaker —
Hudson was born in the Midwest, grew up in Washington, D.C., and now makes her home in North Carolina. Her novel “Indigo Field,” winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, a Great Group Read Selection of the Women’s National Book Association, and a Crooks Corner Prize Finalist, has been called “an impressive, sprawling novel about love and hate, life and death, sin and redemption,” by the Southern Literary Review. Her story collection, “Accidental Birds of the Carolinas,” was a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention, and her creative nonfiction book, “Searching for Virginia Dare,” was a North Carolina Notable Book.
Hudson’s essays have been published in the North Carolina Literary Review and four anthologies, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Hemingway Foundation, Ucross Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the North Carolina Arts Council.
She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Warren Wilson College.
Hudson currently lives on a historic family farm in Chatham County with her husband, Sam, and their terrier DJ Calhoun.
To learn more about the fascinating work of Hudson, which includes teaching, community outreach, and mentoring writers, visit https://marjoriehudson.com/about/
About the Joyce T. Boone Southern Authors Series —
Joyce T. Boone graduated from Atlantic Christian College with degrees in business administration (1978) and nursing (1988). An enthusiastic advocate for students and alumni of Barton College, Boone believed in the mission of the small, private, liberal arts college. She served on both the Barton College Board of Trustees and the Barton Alumni Council. Boone was president-elect of the Barton College Alumni Council when she passed away in October 2004.
For additional information, contact Michael Brantley, Elizabeth H. Jordan Chair of Southern Literature, associate professor of English, and director of the Barton College Writers Series, at mkbrantley@barton.edu or 252-399-6370.
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