47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024
Kent Wascom: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Presentation
Festival Date
10-7-2024
Location
University Theatre, Old Dominion University
Author/Artist Bio
Kent Wascom was born in New Orleans and raised in Pensacola, Florida. Wascom’s first novel, The Blood of Heaven, was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and NPR. It was a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction and selected as one of Gambit‘s 40 Under 40. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he directs the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University.
Description
The reading took place on Monday, October 7, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University. Wascom read as part of the MFA Faculty Readings session which included Luisa A. Igloria and Marianne Chan.
Recommended Citation
Wascom, Kent, "Kent Wascom: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2024). 47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024. 20.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2024/20
