NEON Festival: Poetry Reading with ODU Writers in Community
Join The Muse Writers Center and ODU Writers in Community at this year’s NEON Festival for a poetry reading, held live and in person at the Hugh Copeland Center in…
Read MoreWilliamsburg Book Festival
The Williamsburg Book Festival’s mission is to promote and support the art of literary composition in the Williamsburg area and expose writers to the reading public. This free event includes authors…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Live Virtual Reading with Tom Lin
Tom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was 4. A graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program at the…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Reading with Sheri Reynolds & Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Sheri Reynolds‘ newest novel, The Tender Grave, was released in March 2021. She also wrote the novels Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah book club selection and New…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Gabrielle Calvocoressi Poetry Reading
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart; Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic, winner of…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Live Virtual Reading with Matt Bell
This event will live-stream on the ODU Literary Festival Facebook page. Matt Bell‘s latest novel, Appleseed, was released in July 2021 from Custom House. His craft book Refuse to Be…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Live Virtual Reading with Dantiel W. Moniz
This event will live-stream on the ODU Literary Festival Facebook page. Dantiel W. Moniz has received the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Live Virtual Reading with Mansoor Adayfi
This event will live-stream on the ODU Literary Festival Facebook page. At age 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned.…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Live Virtual Reading with Lynn Waltz & Amanda Galvan Huynh
This event will live-stream on the ODU Literary Festival Facebook page. Lynn Waltz is a writer, journalist, and professor of journalism at Hampton University. She is the author of Hog…
Read MoreODU LitFest: Playwright & Director Kareem Fahmy
This event will live-stream on the ODU Literary Festival Facebook page, featuring ODU Department of Communication & Theatre Arts Students reading a scene from “A Distinct Society” at University Theatre.…
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