2014: Scissortail Schedule of Readings

Scissortail Creative Writing Festival
9^th Annual: April 3 – 5, 2014

East Central University – Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, April 3

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium

Ron Wallace – Durant, Oklahoma

Of Horses, Hawks and the World in Between

Maureen DuRant – Medicine Park, Oklahoma

Collect Call Home

Larry Thomas – Alpine, Texas

The Lobsterman's Dream (Poems of the Coast of Maine)

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

J.C. “Catfish” Mahan – Edmond, Oklahoma

The Truth about The Truth

Elizabeth Raby – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ransomed Voices

Alan Berecka – Del Mar College

With our Baggage

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 – 3: 30 North Lounge

John Morris – Cameron University

Bereft of Fluency in the Language of Grace

Jessica Isaacs – Seminole State College

deep August

Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University

The Case of the Barn Burnt

Rob Roensch – Oklahoma City University

The Wildflowers of Baltimore

IV. 2:00 – 3:30 Estep Auditorium

Steve Garrison – Univ. of Central Oklahoma

Revival

Charlotte Renk – Athens, Texas

This Fifth Season of the Heavenly Pivot

Hank Jones – Tarleton State University

Close Kin

William Peter Grasso – Tulsa, Oklahoma

War and the Common Man

V. 3:45 – 5:00 Estep Auditorium

Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, Arkansas

Confessions from The Mother Road: Okie-inspired Haibun

Jennifer Kidney – Norman, Oklahoma

This is the Truth

Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas

Hiding Out in Las Vegas, NM

VI. 3:45 – 5:00 North Lounge

Brent Newsom - Oklahoma Baptist University

Body and Mind, from Saving Face

Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas

Creation and Other Myths

Arn Henderson – Norman, Oklahoma

Veterans: Prologue from the Dead Sea Scrolls

VII. 7:00 – Estep Auditorium

Featuring James Hoggard

(Reception for authors to follow)

Friday, April 4

VIII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

Clarence Wolfshol – Fulton, Missouri

Chupacabra

Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth, Texas

It’s Political

IX. 9:00 – 9:50 North Lounge

Kevin Clay – Tarrant County College

A Funerary Contemplation & other poems

Connie Squires – University of Central Oklahoma

Dopamine Agonistes

X. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

George McCormick – Cameron University

Inland Empire

Carol Coffee Reposa – San Antonio, Texas

Underground Musicians

XI. 10:00 -10:50 North Lounge

Andrew Geyer – Univ. of South Carolina

Love Songs from Lesser Mountains

Dorothy Alexander – Oklahoma City, Ok.

The Art of Digression: Memoir in Scraps,

Orts & Fragments

XII. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Featuring Carolyne Wright

*** Lunch ***

XIII. 2:00 – 3:30 North Lounge

Tim Bradford – Oklahoma State Univ.

Carnet de Voyage

Sy Hoahwah – Benton, Arkansas

Wind River & other poems

Jennifer Luckenbill – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

slipstreaming

Jim Wilson – Seminole State College

Beirut Spring

XIV. 2:00 -3:30 Estep Auditorium

Steven & Regina Schroeder - Chicago & Boston

e pluribus unum: the new Parmenides

Sally Rhoads – Albany, New York

My Father’s Slippers & other poems

Carl Sennhenn – Rose State College

Trespass in Ephesus

James Brubaker – Oklahoma State University

Pilot Season

XV. 3:45 – 5:00 Estep Auditorium

Jim Spurr – Shawnee, Oklahoma

Live Loud, Live Long

Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University

Crevasses, Fissures, Rifts, and Abysses

Phil Estes – Oklahoma State University

Daddio(s)

XVI. 3:45 – 5:00 North Lounge

Jason Poudrier – Cameron University, Oklahoma

What Didn’t Happen

Karen Eileen Sisk – Oklahoma State University

In A Glass Casket

Hugh Tribbey – East Central University

Wrinkle and Mechanism

XVII. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

Featuring Jonas Zdanys

           

Page One Literary Art Gallery & Open Mic

(Ada Arts & Heritage Center)

Saturday, April 5

XVIII. 9:00– 10:30 Estep Auditorium

John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Poems

Bayard Godsave – Cameron University

The Trilling Wire

Abigail Keegan – Oklahoma City University

Transport

Ben Myers – Oklahoma Baptist University

What to do after a Tornado

XIX. 10:45 -12:00 Estep Auditorium

Hardy Jones – Cameron University

A New Bike for Little Mike

Haesong Kwon – Oklahoma State University

A Day’s Worth of Thistle

LeAnne Howe – Ada, Oklahoma

Choctalking on Other Realities

XX. 12:15 – 1:15 Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Featuring Nathan Brown

(Fisher High School Contest Winners)