On Campus
Literary Festival
(above) Annu Subramanian, Blake Bailey, Robert Zorn ’75, Ed Mabrey, and Ann Napolitano at the Literary Festival panel discussion.
As the spring semester got underway, St. Mark’s welcomed five extraordinary writers to campus for the eighth annual Literary Festival. This year’s distinguished guests included biographer Blake
(left) Robert Zorn ’75 discusses his book Cemetery John.
Bailey, poet Ed Mabrey, novelist Ann Napolitano, human-rights advocate and novelist Annu Subramanian, and St. Mark’s graduate and
(bottom left) Ed Mabrey reads some of his poetry for students.
nonfiction author Robert Zorn ’75. Ed Mabrey arrived a day early and treated the Upper School to an oral presentation of some of his poems, drawing big laughs for his cultural observations and proving why he was the threetime World Poetry Slam Champion. The next day, all five writers sat on a panel discussion hosted by Literary Festival co-chairs Will Garden ’16 and Gopal Raman ’17, who is himself a published author. The writers discussed a wide range
After an afternoon of classroom discussions, the
of topics, including how they have come to
authors gathered in the Green Library for a special
incorporate every subject they learned in school,
reception and to announce the winners of the
even math, into their writing. They also stressed
annual writing contest. Numerous student entries
that writing is a discipline that requires lots of
in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
practice and patience.
were judged by a panel of Upper School teachers and the five visiting writers.
St. Mark’s School of Texas
Spring 2015 | On Campus
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