
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 27, 1994                   TAG: 9403010201
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

HOLLINS LITERARY FESTIVAL MARCH 12|

Novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill will be the featured author at this year's Hollins College Literary Festival on March 12. She also will teach classes as this year's writer-in-residence at the college.

Gaitskill's works include ``Bad Behavior,'' a collection of short stories, and ``Two Girls, Fat and Thin.'' Other short stories have been published in Mirabella, Threepenny Review and Esquire. Most recently, ``On Not Being a Victim'' was the lead essay in the March issue of Harper's.

The day-long festival, which also will bring poet Henry Taylor and writer Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn to the Roanoke campus, will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration and coffee in Main Building. The first reading by the authors follows at 10:30 a.m. in Babcock Auditorium of the Dana Science Building. An afternoon panel discussion of selected poems will be led by R.H.W. Dillard, Jeanne Larsen and Henry Taylor.

The festival is free.

by CNB