Old Dominion University

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Annual Literary Festival will offer a weeklong slate of literary readings, theater and music performances, and visual artist exhibitions. Writers, musicians, and artists from across the country, working in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, dance, and photography will give readings, performances, workshops, exhibitions, and presentations of their work to students and residents of Virginia, on campus and in the community. Founded in 1977, ODU’s Annual Literary Festival brings major contemporary authors to the Hampton Roads Community so that their ideas and creativity are made available to students of the university and to the community through readings, performances, and other less formal conversations. The festival creates a community of writers and readers energized by the knowledge they share. The Lit Fest will include two dance performances of “What We Ask of Flesh,” inspired by Remica Bingham-Risher’s poetry and choreographed by Christal Brown.