Emory University - Emerging Student Writers

Join us in the Fourth Floor Gallery & Event Space at the Decatur Library for the Emerging Student Writers Stage! This special event features talented student writers from Georgia colleges reading their original work in 45-minute sessions throughout the day. The stage will be situated alongside The Book As Art v.13: Mixed Messages exhibit, creating a vibrant atmosphere where visual art and creative writing come together.

This event will be held on the Fourth Floor of Decatur Library. To reach the Fourth Floor, you'll need to take the elevator on the right (when you're facing the elevators--it's labeled). If the other elevator opens when you call, please take it to the third floor, exit, and press the up button again to call the correct elevator.

About the Emory Emerging Student Writers

Nasneen Abdalim is completing her undergraduate degree at Emory University studying Creative Writing and Biology. Her interests surround memoir, fiction, children's literature, and botanical sciences.

Amelia Ali is a third-year, English doctoral student whose research centers the environment and gender to investigate literary and cultural constructions of what it means to be considered “native” to a space, particularly in the context of a climate changing world. She is curious about how law and literature intersect Afro-Indigenous women's lives, their children, and property. 

Abigail Charak is an undergraduate at Emory University, majoring in English and creative writing with a minor in economics. She is currently a researcher with Emory’s Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project and is in the early stages of writing a fiction novella for her senior honors thesis.

Gregory C. Ellison, III is a first year Emory student with a passion for science and writing.  He is in the early stages of writing a Sci-fi novel set on a post-apocalyptic Earth. He is a passionate writer, seeking ongoing opportunities to refine his writing skills and imagination. 

Aaron Rachel Selby is a poet living in Atlanta, Georgia. Their work has appeared in Stone of Madness Press, Peachfuzz Journal, and Zaum.

Full Schedule:

• 10:00 – 10:45 AM: Emory University

• 11:00 – 11:45 AM: Mercer University

• 12:00 – 12:45 PM: Kennesaw State University

• 1:00 – 1:45 PM: Agnes Scott College

• 2:00 – 2:45 PM: Georgia State University

• 3:00 – 3:45 PM: University of Georgia

• 4:00 – 4:45 PM: Georgia College & State University

  
  

Come celebrate the next generation of writers as they share their work!