USC Fall Literary Festival with Cinelle Barnes

Great writers, readers and friends will gather for three author visits in September and October for the University of South Carolina Fall Literary Festival. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the festival brings unique and inspiring literary voices to campus.

The 2024 festival welcomes two-time National Book Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Jesmyn Ward, Edgar Grand Master award winner Walter Mosley, and Charleston-based memoirist and essayist Cinelle Barnes. They join more than 60 award-winning authors who have visited the USC campus for the festival, participating in readings, book signings and other events – all free and open to the community.

The Fall Literary Festival is a partnership between University Libraries and the Department of English, supported by the generous legacy of Libraries friend Dorothy D. Smith. Mrs. Smith was a lifelong book lover who wanted to share her passion with others. This year we are very pleased to partner with the Richland Library to bring Jesmyn Ward to campus and with the South Carolina Writers Association on Cinelle Barnes’ visit.

Sunday, September 29, 2024 - Cinelle Barnes

Reading/lecture, Q&A, book signing

Charleston-based writer Cinelle Barnes is a memoirist, essayist and educator from the Philippines. Her debut memoir, Monsoon Mansion, was Bustle’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018. She is the author of Malaya: Essays on Freedom and the editor of the New York Times New & Noteworthy book A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South. Her writing has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed Reader, Literary Hub, Hyphen and CNN Philippines, and she has received fellowships and grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, VONA, Kundiman, the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund, the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant and Capita.

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