Spring Literary Festival
Wednesday, May 9th through Friday, May 11th, 2012
The 2012 Spring Literary Festival will showcase the talents of Denise Duhamel, Terrance Hayes, Amy Hempel, Richard Rodriguez, and Susan Orlean.
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Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The three-day festival is held in May on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. We invite you to join us.
The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program and at Little Professor Book Center.
For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at davidwanczyk@gmail.com.
Past Spring Literary Festival attendees include Paul Auster, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, Billy Collins, Lydia Davis, William Gass, Donald Hall, Barry Hannah, Elizabeth Hardwick, Amy Hempel, Tony Hoagland, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Barry Lopez, Heather McHugh, W.S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, N. Scott Momaday, Lorrie Moore, Mary Oliver, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Francine Prose, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charles Simic, James Tate, John Edgar Wideman, Geoffrey Wolff.
See complete Spring Literary Festival History here.
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Last Year's Schedule
Wednesday, May 4th (All events in Baker Center Theater)
Lecture by Rita Dove, 7:30
Reading by Rosellen Brown, 8:30
Thursday, May 5th
Lecture by Rosellen Brown, 11:00
Lecture by Tobias Wolff, 12:00
Reading by Debra Marquart, 7:30
Reading by Padgett Powell, 8:30
Friday, May 6th
Lecture by Padgett Powell, 11:00
Lecture by Debra Marquart, 12:00
Reading by Rita Dove, 7:30
Reading by Tobias Wolff, 8:30
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Photos from Spring Literary Festival 2011, courtesy of Fred Viebahn
Clockwise from top left: Rita Dove and Tobias Wolff before their reading on Friday night. // Rita Dove, Zakes Mda, Debra Marquart, Amrit Singh, and Dinty W. Moore, at Zoe in Athens. // Mark Halliday, Rita Dove, Rosellen Brown, Dinty W. Moore, and Eric LeMay enjoy the Lit Fest after-party. // Padgett Powell (with his daughter) chats with Rita Dove outside Restaurant Salaam. //