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CSU's Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians

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CSU's Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians

Dedicated to preserving the legacy of Carson McCullers; to nurturing American writers and musicians;

02/19/2026

Come help us celebrate Carson's 109th birthday at tonight's screening of Wunderkind Carson McCullers: A Film by Claudia Müller! Following the screening will be a conversation between Georgia Public Broadcasting's Orlando Montoya and McCullers Center Director Nick Norwood.

Location: Columbus Public Library Auditorium, 3000 Macon Rd
Time: 6:00 PM

01/08/2026

Are you a high school student in the state of Georgia or Alabama, or a student at Columbus State University, that loves to write?

The Carson McCullers Literary Awards offer prizes in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, expository essay, playwriting, and screenwriting.

Prizes: $300 first place, $200 second place, $100 third place in each category.

Learn more and submit entries at: https://www.columbusstate.edu/english/mccullers-awards.php

Submission Deadline: Friday, January 19, 2026

11/24/2025

On Monday, December 1, 2025 at 9 pm, Georgia Public Broadcasting will be airing Wunderkind Carson McCullers, the first-ever documentary about the author, co-produced by the Carson McCullers Center.

11/13/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Lummus Chapel at Historic Linwood Cemetery for the reading by Monica Macansantos, the 20th annual Writer in Residence!

Special thanks to the Bound Bookshop for supporting the event!

11/05/2025

Join us in the Lummus Chapel at the Historic Linwood Cemetery for a reading by Monica Macansantos, the 20th Annual Writer in Residence.

Wednesday, November 12th at 6:00 pm
721 Linwood Blvd, Columbus, GA

Monica Macansantos is the author of "Returning to My Father's Kitchen: Essays" and "Love and Other Rituals: Stories."

Free and open to the public.

10/30/2025

Join us for a poetry reading by Georgia Poetry Circuit poet Diamond Forde!

Tuesday, November 4th at 12:15 pm
Location: Columbus State University, Arnold Hall #113

Dr. Diamond Forde‘s debut collection, Mother Body, was chosen by Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Her second book, The Book of Alice, will be released in January 2026. She has received numerous awards & prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize & CLA‘s Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. She is a Callaloo, Tin House, & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, whose work has appeared in Boston Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter & elsewhere. She serves as the interviews editor for Honey Literary. Diamond earned her Bachelors in English from the University of West Georgia, an MFA from The University of Alabama & her PhD in African American Poetics & Fat Studies at Florida State University. She is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University.

10/28/2025

Event Tomorrow!
David Diamond Reading & Recital Series

Featuring:
CSU Horn Studio
Evie Fletcher, Poetry & Prose

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Location: Studio Theatre in the River Center for the Performing Arts

Named in honor of Carson McCullers’s close friend, world-renowned composer David Diamond, the David Diamond Reading & Recital Series pairs a Columbus State University creative writing student with a soloist or small ensemble from the Schwob School of Music for a reading of original work by the writer and a performance of reportorial pieces by the musicians.

10/14/2025

Join us next week at the Columbus Public Library for a reading and signing by Padraig Rooney!

Padraig Rooney was born in Ireland and lives in the Pyrenées Orientales in France. He was a teacher of English literature in international schools for many decades and is an award-winning poet. The Gilded Chalet: Travels in Literary Switzerland was described in the TLS as “Brilliant. Thoroughly absorbing.” His articles have appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Scotsman and The New European.

10/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to the David Diamond Reading & Recital yesterday! Sal Woessner read beautiful prose and Caleb Ferreira played two wonderful pieces on piano.

Don't miss the next recital on October 29th, 6 pm at the Studio Theatre in the River Center for the Performing Arts!

09/24/2025

Upcoming Event:

David Diamond Reading & Recital Series
Caleb Ferreira, Piano
Sal Woessner, Poetry & Prose

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Location: Schwob School of Music, Studio Theatre

Named in honor of Carson McCullers’s close friend, world-renowned composer David Diamond, the David Diamond Reading & Recital Series pairs a Columbus State University creative writing student with a soloist or small ensemble from the Schwob School of Music for a reading of original work by the writer and a performance of reportorial pieces by the musicians.

09/10/2025

Please join us for a reception to welcome this year's Writing Fellow: Monica Macansantos!

Wednesday, September 17 at 5:00 pm at the Smith-McCullers House, 1519 Stark Ave, Columbus, Georgia.

Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Monica Macansantos is the author of Returning to My Father's Kitchen: Essays (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2025), and Love and Other Rituals: Stories (2022). Her honors include a 2024-25 Shearing Fellowship with the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and residencies at Hedgebrook, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and Monson Arts. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, Michener Center for Writers, and a PhD from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, River Styx, Bennington Review, The Hopkins Review, Electric Lit, and Lit Hub, among others, and has been named Notable in the Best American Essays 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2016.

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1519 Stark Avenue
Columbus, GA
31906

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Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+17063295955

Website

http://www.mccullerscenter.org/

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