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Ohio University Spring Literary Festival
March 29 @ 7:00 pm - March 30 @ 6:00 pm EDT
2023 Spring Literary Festival
March 29-30
The Ohio University English Department plans to hold 2023 Spring Literary Festival on the Athens campus on March 29-30.
Authors scheduled to attend include Barrie Jean Borich, Denise Duhamel, and Megan Giddings.
The schedule also is posted to the university calendar(opens in a new window).
Wednesday, March 29
7:30 p.m. Barrie Jean Borich lecture
8:30 p.m. Denise Duhamel reading
Thursday, March 30
10 a.m.: Megan Giddings lecture
11 a.m.: Denise Duhamel lecture
5 p.m.: Barrie Jean Borich reading
6 p.m.: Megan Giddings reading
About the Spring Literary Festival at Ohio University
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 April on the Ohio University main campus in Athens, OH.
The festival is sponsored by the Creative Writing program in the English Department and is generously funded by the College of Arts & Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public.
The five visiting writers are present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors are available for purchase after each program, and at Little Professor Book Center in Athens.
For more information, contact David Wanczyk(opens in a new window), Spring Literary Festival Coordinator.
Past Spring Literary Festival attendees include Paul Auster, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, Billy Collins, Lydia Davis, William Gass, Donald Hall, Barry Hannah, Terrance Hayes, 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, Susan Orlean, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Francine Prose, Richard Rodriguez, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charles Simic, James Tate, John Edgar Wideman, Geoffrey Wolff. See more in the Past Speakers Archives.
