Student authors read their published works and discussed Internet publishing.

Eighteen USF students will become published writers on Saturday, May 2nd when the editorial staff releases the 2008-2009 issue of the Ignatian, USF’s literary magazine. The Ignatian is published annually and features a few genres of student art, including fiction, poems, and photographs.

“Writing is like an apprenticeship,” said Anthony Varallo, winner of the 2005 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and author of the new short story collection “Out Loud.” Varallo was one of four writers that came to USF last Wednesday and Thursday as part of the annual Emerging Writers Festival sponsored by the English department and the African American studies minor.