Ohio University’s annual Spring Literary Festival will take place next week, Wednesday May 9 through Friday May 11, featuring readings and lectures from Denise Duhamel, Terrance Hayes (pictured), Amy Hempel, Richard Rodriguez, and Susan Orlean.

From the website: “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 May on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. We invite you to join us.”

Full info on the festival can be found here.