Crossing Thresholds

What can we learn from each other by examining our lives and stories, moving from the outside and coming in, opening a door, extending a hand?

What does it really cost to say something rather than nothing, to listen rather than yelp, then decide to take action rather than holding back?

We’re living in an urgent time: a world on the brink, on the edge of possibility. We look to writers whose work reaches across our imaginary divides, who offer us ways to learn from the past and apply those lessons to the future.

How can we cross into new states of being without losing what we value? How is the threshold a gift? Let’s listen and look again at this world because it is all we have to live in.

~ Remica Bingham-Risher and Luisa A. Igloria, 2019 Festival Directors

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Brochure: 42th Annual Literary Festival, 2019: Crossing Thresholds,, Shara Weber

Elaine Castillo, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Elaine Castillo

Elaine Fletcher Chapman, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Elaine Fletcher Chapman

Chen Chen, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Chen Chen

Breena Clarke 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Breena Clarke

Desiree Cooper, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Desiree Cooper

Safia Elhillo, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Safia Elhillo

Tayari Jones, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Tayari Jones

Ilya Kaminsky, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, IIya Kaminsky

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Mary Jean Kledzik, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Mary Jean Kledzik

Diana Khoi Nguyen, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Diana Khoi Nguyen

Renee Olander, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Renee Olander

José Olivarez, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, José Olivarez

Philip Raisor, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Philip Raisor

Noah Renn, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Noah Renn

Deborah Wallace, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Deborah Wallace

Xuan Juliana Wang, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Xuan Juliana Wang

Kent Wascom, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival, Kent Wascom