October is flying by! So make sure you hit up one of the many literary events in town before it's over.

Friday night at 6 p.m., Johns Hopkins University is hosting a trio of Southern writers: Bryant Voight, Josephine Humphreys and the very Southern-named Bobbie Ann Mason. (This is coming for a girl named Nancy Jo.) The event, held at Remsen Hall, will include readings from each of the authors' works.

Saturday night brings us another 510 Reading Series event, hosted by Michael Kimball and Jen Michalski at Minas Gallery. Starting at 5 p.m., spend some time with writers Dan Fesperman, Karen Ellis and Charles Rammelkamp.

On Sunday at 2 p.m., join Sharon Knecht, archivist for the Oblate Sisters of Providence, at the Enoch Pratt Library. She's presenting her new book, which details the history of the world's first sustained order of religious women of African descent.

For our poetry lovers, Towson University is hosting a reading for Kurt S. Olsson, the 2007-2008 winner of the school's Prize for Literature. The event begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday night.

For more details on these and many other bookish events, visit the Read Street calendar.