2010 Literary Festival lineup announced
From October 4th to October 8th, the ODU MFA program will host the 33rd Annual Literary Festival. This year’s festival, titled “Hard Times in America” will include writers Blake Bailey, Buzz Bissinger,...
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Writer-in-Residence: Bonnie Jo Campbell
Credit: John Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell, the ODU MFA Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 writer-in-residence, will spend two weeks at Old Dominion early in the semester. Campbell’s short-story...
View ArticleErnest Rhodes to Read From “A Coal Miner’s Family at Mooseheart,” Sept. 21 at...
At age 95, Old Dominion University Professor Emeritus of English Ernest Rhodes has published a memoir of growing up in an orphans’ home-school in Illinois, and will give a reading from the book at noon...
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the pilgrimage of the ODU MFA faculty and students to DC for AWP 2011 will be well-underway. You can find us at table F31 in Hall A (check this nifty map if you want to hunt us down more efficiently)....
View ArticleSenior Scholar Lecture: Sheri Reynolds
Sheri Reynolds, one of our professors in the MFA Creative Writing Program, will be giving the College of Arts and Letters Spring 2011 Senior Scholar Lecture this year on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. She’ll...
View ArticleODU POET-IN-RESIDENCE TO GIVE READING MARCH 17 AT BOOKSTORE
Kristin Naca, our writer-in-residence this semester, will be on campus next week. Check out the news posting for more. Old Dominion University visiting poet-in-residence Kristin Naca, the author of...
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ODU – Poetry Society of Virginia – Academy of American Poets 2010-2011...
The MFA Creative Writing Program thanks all the fine poets who participated in this year’s College Poetry Prize, Co-sponsored by the MFA Creative Writing Program, the Poetry Society of Virginia, and...
View ArticleBest-Selling Author Steve Almond to Speak at ODU October 27th
ODU’s Creative Writing MFA program and the Friends of the MFA Program invite you to an afternoon with author Steve Almond! Almond’s new short-story collection God Bless America arrives in bookstores on...
View ArticleFrom “An ‘Ideal Moment’ with Dustin Lance Black”
We here at Barely South Review are excited about the week-long Literary Festival at Old Dominion University. One of the great benefits of this program is the opportunity to interview attending writers...
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