The 2016 Spring Literary Festival, held April 6-8, features authors Kelly Link, Stuart Dybek, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Kevin Prufer.
The festival is sponsored by the Creative Writing program in the English Department at Ohio University, in conjunction with Alden Library,
All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. 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.
Watch Live on April 7
Ohio University alumni and friends are invited to view Kevin Prufer’s readings live on Thursday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m.—or watch the archived video at any time after the event.
Meet the Authors
- Meet Kevin Prufer, Poet of the Spooky-Sad and Mysteriously Funny
- Meet Phillip Lopate, ‘Guru of the Modern Essay’
- Introducing the Fantastic Fiction of Kelly Link
- “Perfectly Crooked”: The Transcendent Poetry of Ellen Bryant Voigt
This Year’s Visiting Writers
Wednesday, April 6
7:30 p.m., Kelly Link lecture (in Baker Theater)
8:30 p.m., Stuart Dybek reading (in Baker Theater)
Thursday, April 7
11 a.m., Ellen Bryant Voigt lecture (in Baker Ballroom)
noon, Phillip Lopate lecture (In Baker Ballroom)
7:30 p.m., Kevin Prufer reading (in Baker Ballroom)
8:30 p.m., Kelly Link reading (in Baker Ballroom)
Friday, April 8
11 a.m.: Kevin Prufer lecture (in Alden 4)
noon, Stuart Dybek lecture (in Alden 4)
7:30 p.m., Phillip Lopate reading (in Baker Ballroom)
8:30 p.m., Ellen Bryant Voigt reading (in Baker Ballroom)
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