Our Upcoming Events
Please join us on Zoom starting in August for new discussions on Flannery O'Connor. Recorded sessions from 2024 are available on our YouTube channel.
See the following to register:
FALL 2024 ZOOM SESSIONS:
All events open to the public. Virtual events are co-sponsored by The Georgia Writers Museum and Allied Arts of Milledgeville.
Tuesday, December 3 Guest Lecture at 7pm: “Driving While Black?: Mobility, Race, and Travel in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find,’” Katie Simon, Interim Director, the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities (Register via Smartsheet)
Thursday, December 12 Book Club: Join us to discuss Dear Regina by Monica Miller. Miller has collected O’Connor’s letters home during her years in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Iowa. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, January 23 Book Club: Join us to discuss Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read the Prologue, and Chapters 1-3. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, February 20 Book Club: Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read chapters 4-7. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday ,March 20 Book Club: Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read chapters 8-10. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, April 17 Book Club: Join us to discuss O’Connor’s famous essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.” (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)
Thursday, May 15 Book Club: Join us to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the Memoir of Mary Ann, about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.” (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)