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Georgia Perimeter College

Georgia Perimeter College, the third largest institution of the University System of Georgia, serves more than 20,000 students through six locations in metro Atlanta, Alpharetta, Clarkston, Dunwoody, Decatur, Lawrenceville and Newton County. GPC boasts one of the most diverse populations in the USG system, with students representing more than 140 countries. GPC offers degrees in 39 liberal arts programs; degrees and certificates in career programs; Continuing Education and Corporate Training Certificate Programs. We are one of the top 100 associate degree-granting institutions in the nation and the 20th fastest-growing two-year college in the United States. GPC offers the most online courses of any educational institution in Georgia, and has the most Joint Enrollment students. The Chattahoochee Review literary magazine is a nationally recognized literary journal sponsored by Georgia Perimeter College. Our purpose, a twenty-five year literary tradition, is to publish original writing of literary merit. Each quarter, we publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, literary criticisms; everything you've come to expect from a celebrated literary magazine. The Writers Institute brings together the College's writers and literary publications to create a new center for the literary arts at GPC.

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  • Georgia Perimeter College Professor Shawn L. Williams leads a slavery symposium discussion on The Willie Lynch Syndrome: Consequences of Mythologizing History. The Willie Lynch Syndrome has been devised to explain the psychological problems and disunity among black people. Williams debunks the myth of Lynch's existence and urges careful analysis of history for understanding the impact of slavery and white supremacy on African Americans.
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  • Harold Katner, chief of infectious diseases and professor of internal medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, presents a graphic explanation of HIV/AIDS. This event is part of the 2008 HIV Prevention Symposium held in conjunction with World AIDS Day.
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  • Townsend Prize-winning author Renee Dodd discusses her novel, *A Cabinet of Wonders*, which tells the stories of all the "Wonders" who work in a 1920s sideshow.
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  • Steve Fitzpatrick: Wildfires, A Necessary Hazard. Steve explains wild fires to a class at Georgia Perimeter College. He talks about the causes, characteristics, the importance and the concerns regarding forest fires.
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  • Fred Buls talks about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that is currently orbiting the moon.
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    Georgia Perimeter College
  • William Kelly, a wholesale diamond broker, tells the story of his near death experience of having a stroke during a baseball game.
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  • Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, read poems from two of her collections, Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard, and explained the history of her poems. She discussed the research that she does to compose her poems and using the dictionary to explore meanings of words. Her advice to burgeoning poets was to “fall in love with sentences.”
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  • Writer Pat Conroy tells the story of his life in the South. He tells about writing his new book, *The Death of Santini*, about his father's death.
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  • National bestselling novelist, Cassandra King, author of *The Same Sweet Girls*, *Making Waves*, and *The Sunday Wife* addresses the Georgia Perimeter College’s Writers Institute.
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  • Writer Travis Hunter discusses his writing career and his writing process.
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