Dear Scholars of Flannery O'Connor--

March is Flannery O'Connor's birthday month, and we are thrilled to be celebrating her Centennial this year in style with a week of festivities from March 25-29. Perhaps most exciting is the unique art opening with newly-discovered and recently acquired visual art of O'Connor, including paintings and drawings, that have never been seen! The VIP opening is Tuesday March 25, and on Wednesday March 26, the art will be on view all day in the Magnolia Ballroom on the GCSU campus. Make plans to come at 4 pm to hear scholar Bob Donahoo's talk in the gallery space entitled "O'Connor's Other Art." Free and open to the public. The week's festivities also include live musical performances, a screening of Wildcat, free tours of Andalusia, birthday cake for Flannery, and much more. Check out the complete calendar and more information below!! It would be our pleasure to host you in Milledgeville for the birthday bash of the century!

Dr. Katie Simon

Interim Executive Director of the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities

Carol Loeb Shloss, former Acting Professor of English at Stanford University, has written widely and variously about literary modernism. The author of one of the first books about Flannery O’Connor, she is returning to the field after award winning works on the families of James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Changing her focus from fathers and daughters to mothers and daughters, her current book is called Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles.

To join us for the online book club at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom, please register online.

The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities presents a poetry reading in celebration of Sarah Gordon’s new poetry collection, Six White Horses, published by Mercer University Press. This event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Gordon is the author of widely published poems and two previous collections of poetry: Distances and The Lost Thing as well as Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. Gordon is professor emerita of English at Georgia College & State University where she chaired five O’Connor symposia and was named Distinguished Professor. She is a recipient of The Governor’s Award in the Humanities and lives in Athens, Georgia.

Support for this event comes from the Habit of Art Foundation account established by Dr. Bruce Gentry. Books will be for sale thanks to Barnes & Noble.

Check out our YouTube channel for recordings of our virtual events.

Check the Flannery at 100 website hub for up to date event information across the entire campus! Click the Flannery at 100 logo to see the year's events.

Bring your completed BINGO card to the music festival on Saturday, March 29 and receive a prize from the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities! Print BINGO cards will be available at earlier events in the week and at the Milledgeville Visitors Center.

Robert Donahoo is a Professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Texas. He has been active in Flannery O'Connor studies for other 30 years, co-editing two collections of essays on O'Connor, most recently Approaches to Teaching Flannery O'Connor, published by the Modern Language Association in 2019. He has co-directed with Marshall Bruce Gentry two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes on "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor" (2014 and 2023). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on O'Connor as well as on the drama of Horton Foote, Southern novelists Harper Lee, Larry Brown, and Clyde Edgerton, Postmodern Science Fiction, and Tolstoy's Resurrection. As a teacher, he focuses on American Literature, particularly Southern fiction and drama. As a hobby, he reviews theater productions in the Houston area for a suburban paper. He's currently working on a long-delayed monograph focused on O'Connor and regional history.

Join producers of the film to hear about the making of the movie and then watch it on the big screen, a la "Late Encounter with the Enemy."

Sally Jaye and special guest Rob Sumowski, Colin Cutler and the Hot Pepper Jam, and the GCSU Music Department will give an outdoor concert. Tours will be free and there will be plenty of family-friendly fun!

Copies can be purchased by mailing a check or money order for $15 made out to "Flannery O'Connor Review" to:

Bruce Gentry, Editor

Flannery O'Connor Review

English Dept., Campus Box 44

Georgia College

410 W. Greene St.

Milledgeville, GA 31061