The readers, generally FSU faculty and members of the FSU writing program, offer their own work. The annual Spring Festival of Writers brings to FSU poets, novelists, short story writers, and editors to share the secrets of their craft. Students are welcome at readings, lectures, and panel discussions focused on the problems and rewards of writing. Flesh and blood editors explain what they're looking for. Real live poets explain what they meant.
Informal discussions take place between breaks for coffee and wine and cake.
Visiting writers in recent years included, among many others, Leslie Fiedler, John Barth, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Maxine Kumin, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovani, Stephen Spender, James Dickey, Alice Walker, William Styron, Tom Stoppard, George Plimpton, Frederick Crews, and Stephen Greenblatt.