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PAGE 4, ODU COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPT 25, 1981

Well-known writers featured at literary festival
Eight well-known poets, fiction writers and editors will be featured at ODU's fourth annual Literary Festival, Oct. 5-8. "A good festival has variety," explained Anthony Ardizzone, assistant professor of English and co-director of the festival. "The primary focus of this year's festival will be on writers whose current works are especially strong," he added. Planning for the 1981 festival began last April. The festival will begin at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, with a reading by novelist David Bradley in Kaufman Hall auditorium. Bradley, a professor of English at Temple University, is the author of "The Chaneysville Incident," a work about a young black historian's search for the truth of his ancestors' deaths. Bradley will also speak on" 'The Self and the Writing Process" it 2 p.m. Tuesday. Oct. 6, in room 't48-150 of Webb Center, He appears courtesy of the Cultural Events and Convocation Committee Diane Wakoski, author of more than a dozen	collections of poetry, will speak on poetry at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Kaufman Hall auditorium. Wakoski frequently writes about the difficulty of being a woman in an age of changing values, in addition to an array of other contemporary subjects and themes. That same day, Wakoski will also present a reading of her work at 8:30 p.m. in the Kaufman Hall auditorium. She appears courtesy of the Activities Programming Board. "Should Writers be on the Government Payroll? The Saga of the Federal Writers' Project" will be the topic of a talk by Jerre Mangione, former national coordinating editor of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. He will speak at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in room 148-150 of Webb Center. Mangione is the author of 10 books, including the best-selling memoirs "Mount Allegro" and "An Ethnic At Large." His talk will be drawn from his book "The Dream and the Deal," hailed as one of the best social histories of American writers in our time."	At 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, poet Bruce A. Weigl and novelist Lee Zacharias will present readings in the Kaufman Hall auditorium. An assistant professor of English at ODU, Weigl was formerly director of the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His published works include two chapbooks and a collection of poetry titled "A Romance." Zacharias, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and president of the national Associated Writing Programs, will read from her recently published novel "Lessons." Described as "funny, tragic, sassy and lyrical," the novel centers on the tale of a feisty co-ed who becomes a faculty wife at the age of 18 and sets out on her own 14 years later. On Thursday, Oct. 8, Nan Talese will speak on editing at 10 a.m. in room 154-156 of Webb Center. Talese is the executive editor and vice president of the Houghton Mifflin Company. She has also served as senior editor and vice president of Simon and Schuster Authors she has worked with include Margaret Atwood,	Judith Rossner, and Susan Cheever. 154-156 of Webb Center, Paul Zimmer will join Talese in a discussion on the state of contemporary American publishing, from both the trade and university points of view. Zimmer is director of the University of Georgia Press and a vice president of the Associated Writing Programs. He is the author of four books of poetry. Zimmer will join poet Heather McHugh in a poetry reading at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kaufman Hall auditorium. McHugh, the author of "Dangers" and "A World of Difference," teaches at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is a member of the board of directors of the AWP. Zacharias, Zimmer and McHugh appear courtesy of the AWP. The festival is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of English and Community Services Program, the festival is one of the largest annual literary events in Tidewater For more information call Dr. Conrad D. Festa or Anthony Ardizzone at 440-3991.