9th
Annual Scissortail Festival, April 3-5, 2014
A
showcase of Oklahoma creative writing, the Scissortail Festival welcomes
submissions from creative writers in Oklahoma and across the country. In
addition to feature authors (highlighted on the flyer and press release) the
festival celebrates published, established and emerging authors reading
original poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
Guidelines:
Please read closely and follow exactly. Please look at your calendar before submitting!
Due to the increasing popularity of the festival, it is very difficult to
accommodate special scheduling requests. Please do not ask. Please understand
that Ada, Oklahoma is a small town with very limited public transportation and
has a limited number of hotel rooms. Ada is a two-hour drive from the Oklahoma
City airport, three hours from Dallas and two and half hours from Tulsa,
Oklahoma. The Scissortail Festival is unable to provide shuttle service to and
from these airports, so please consider these factors before submitting to the
festival.
Also:
Scissortail
is a reading festival. No workshops, how-to, propaganda or pre-arranged panels
are acceptable.
Reading
sessions feature a mixture of authors and genre.
Sessions
usually consist of 3 or 4 readers per session. Authors should plan for either 15 or 20 minutes total time at the mic (including prose) depending on how the
session is scheduled. In other words, some readers will get 15 minutes, and
some will get 20 minutes. Please respect your audience and fellow readers and
follow your allotted time diligently.
Email
submissions are encouraged. Submit: 1) complete contact information 2) the
title of your program and sample/s of work to be considered – please consider
the time restraints per reader
3)
a paragraph-length biographical narrative summarizing publications and significant
accomplishments (please write bios in 3rd person).
Deadline for
submission is January 7, 2014. The schedule will be announced by
February.
Send
email submissions to: khada@ecok.edu. Identify
“Scissortail Submission” in the subject line. (It is also a good idea to copy
your submission to khadakhada@gmail.com. If you prefer,
you may send submissions to: Dr. Ken Hada, Department of English &
Languages, East Central University, 1100 E. 14th St., Ada, OK 74820.
Please
check your calendar before submitting. Participants are not charged
registration fees. Please subscribe by email at http://www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com in order to
receive notice of information regarding the festival and related events.
Updates are posted at that site.
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