Mom Brings Coveted Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship to Converse
Graduation days are all about success stories, and when Blue Ridge Community College graduates walked across the stage Friday night, one among them received, in …
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Author Joyce Carol Oates, Artist Jane Creech Combine Talents at Converse
One of America’s most distinguished authors will combine talents with Converse alumna for a reading, book signing and art exhibition in Twichell Auditorium on Friday, …
Peterkin Award Winner to Give Reading, Book Signing
Author and 2011 Julia Peterkin Award Winner Jennifer S. Davis will give a free public reading of her recent works of fiction at Converse College …
Bringing Literature to Life: Dr. Erin Templeton
Scholarly Interest Transatlantic Modernism, focusing on American, British and Irish literature written between the years 1900-1950. Travel “I’ve traveled to libraries and archives all over …
Top Poetry Prize Awarded to Converse Alumna
Converse College alumna Amanda Burgess earned the top award in the 2008 Hub City Creative Writing Contest. Her prize is a full scholarship to the …
Women, Travel, and Nationalism
Dr. Jeanne Moskal, Professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill, will present a public lecture on travel writing Thursday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Hartness …
Converse College Introduces Nisbet Honors Program
Converse alumna Marian Nisbet ’62, and her husband, Olin, of Charlotte, NC, have given $500,000 to endow a new Honors Program at Converse College. The …