Kenyon College hosted its annual LitFest on April 11-12, with a closing session on the 18th. The festival is organized yearly by students in the Literary Citizenship Class.
Saturday, the first day, featured several workshops, including “Writing as Resistance: A Political Expression Workshop,” designed for writers who wanted to use their voices in their work to promote social change. Special guest Professor Orchid Tierny was in attendance.
The second scheduled workshop, “Writers on Writers: Professional Development for Young Writers,” was designed to help young writers learn to market themselves in the professional world.
The last workshop was the “Found Poetry Collage Workshop.” Found poetry is a form of writing in which authors take words, phrases, and passages from non‑poetic texts and arrange them to create a poem.
Saturday’s schedule also included a mixer for book recommendations.
On Sunday, the program featured “Meet the Mags,” a poster fair where campus literary organizations were celebrated and had the chance to mingle.
The festival concluded on April 18 with a screening of Ampe, a story about Black girlhood, paired with a reading of In These Bones I Am Shifting.
