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.

Schedule

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 Theater)

8:30 p.m., Ellen Bryant Voigt reading (in Baker Theater)