Magic Vision & Transformation

The word is full of magic. The word is the wand. The word is a crystal ball. Look into the word and see your grandmother changed into a wolf. Look again, and you're floating down the Mississippi on a raft. Look a third time, and you're a cockroach or a queen. Abracadabra. What could be more powerful than the word?

The 24th Annual Literary Festival celebrates "Magic, Vision, and Transformation." Each writer participating in the week's events is a kind of magician, using words to expose the undersides of all that seems ordinary in life. Their words teach us to see beyond the obvious, and their words change us by helping us imagine new ways of seeing. Like pulling a rabbit from the top-hat, each writer creates meaning out of what seems like air. Through words, we see beyond the illusions of our lives. And for a moment, we can become and experience more than what we are.

~ Sheri Reynolds, Festival Director

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Brochure: 24th Annual Literary Festival, 2001: Magic Vision & Transformation, Publications Department, Old Dominion University

Marjorie Agosin, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Marjorie Agosin

President's Lecture Series: Edward Albee, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Edward Albee

Edward Albee Productions "The Sandbox" and "The Zoo Story" by the ODU Theatre Department, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Edward Albee (Author), Gerard Schwartz (Director), Christopher Hanna (Director), and Old Dominion University Theatre Department

Dorothy Allison, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Dorothy Allison

Roberley Bell, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival - Literary Festival Preview, Roberley Bell

Greg Bottoms, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Greg Bottoms

Matilda Cox, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Matilda Cox

Juliet Crichton, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Juliet Crichton

Eugene Gloria, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Eugene Gloria

Holly Hughes, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Holly Hughes

Agymah Kamau, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Agymah Kamau

Eugene McAvoy, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Eugene McAvoy

Karen Salyer McElmurray, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Karen Salyer McElmurray

Renee Olander, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Renee Olander

Terry Perrel, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Terry Perrel

Roseann Runte, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Roseann Runte

Joseph Skibell, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Joseph Skibell

Sheryl St. Germain, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Sheryl St. Germain

Amy Tudor, 24th Annual Literary Festival, Amy Tudor

Temple West, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Temple West

Tom Yuill, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Tom Yuill