Sponsors and Special Thanks

We would like to thank the Office of the President and the President's Lecture Series, the Hugo A. Owens African-American Cultural Center, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of English, the Department of Foreign Languages, the Institute for the Study of Minority Issues, Norfolk Commission for the Arts and Humanities, the Office of the Provost, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Special Appreciation -- Old Dominion University thanks Mrs. Edie White for her longtime support of creative endeavors, in particular for establishing an endowment for the Literary Festival in memory of her husband, Dr. Forrest P. White.