
Thursday, January 15, 2015
2015 Scissortail: Author Biographies
Dorothy
Alexander is a poet, storyteller and
editor/publisher of a small independent press. Author of four poetry
collections, and a memoir in prose and poetry, Dorothy is a founding member of
the Woody Guthrie Poetry Readings in Okemah, Oklahoma. Inspired by the agrarian
literary tradition and the populist political movements in the rural United
States. She embraces primarily the narrative form, what she calls
“narcissistic” narrative, and “selfie” poetry. The Oklahoma Center for the Book
selected Dorothy as recipient of the Carlile Distinguished Service Award for
her services to the Oklahoma literary community in 2013.
Rilla Askew received
a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her essays and short fiction have appeared in a variety of journals, and her
story "The Killing Blanket" was selected for Prize Stories 1993: The
O. Henry Awards. Askew's first novel, The
Mercy Seat, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dublin IMPAC
Prize, was a Boston Globe Notable Book, and received the Oklahoma Book Award
and the Western Heritage Award in 1998. Fire
in Beulah, her novel about the Tulsa Race Riot, received the American Book
Award and the Myers Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Bigotry and Human Rights. She was a 2004 fellow at Civiella Ranieri in
Umbertide, Italy, and in 2008 her novel Harpsong
received the Oklahoma Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the WILLA Award
from Women Writing the West, and the Violet Crown Award from the Writers League
of Texas. Askew received the 2011 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Her latest novel is Kind of Kin (Ecco Press, 2013 and in the UK by Atlantic Books).
Paul Austin has acted and
directed On and Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, summer stock, and regional
theatres around the nation, as well as acting for television and film,
including roles on West Wing, Law and
Order, Cosby, and the films, Palookaville,
Thirteen Conversations, Tune in Tomorrow, and Sommersby. Among recent stage
appearances were Neil's Bohr in Copenhagen,
the title role in Krapp’s Last Tape,
the Foreman in Vaclav Havel’s Audience
and Late Night Conspiracies, a
collection of his own writings at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he
is a long time member. Mr. Austin has
directed first productions of a number of new plays, including Percy Granger’s Eminent Domain at the Circle in the
Square on Broadway. He has written for and about the theatre in essays, poetry,
plays, and Spontaneous Behavior, a
book on acting. Dreaming Angel, was included in More
Monologues for Men by Men and was also published as a prose poem in Newport Review. A poem, chet baker’s return, will be published
by This Land Press. He was for many years the Artistic Director of The Image Theatre
in New York, where he produced plays and taught acting. In addition to teaching privately in NY, he
has also taught at Rutgers University, the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma
Summer Arts Institute and was a tenured faculty member at Sarah Lawrence
College for twenty years. He recently received the Teachers who Make a
Difference award from the Creative Coalition. Mr. Austin is currently Artistic
Director of The Liberty Free Theatre in upstate New York.
2015 Scissortail: Schedule of Readings
Scissortail
Creative Writing Festival
10th
Annual: April 2 – 4, 2015
East
Central University – Ada, Oklahoma
Thursday,
April 2
I.
9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium
Hank Jones – Tarleton State University
If
You Put Words Together Just Right
Jessica Isaacs – Seminole State
College
Deep
August
Ben Myers – Oklahoma Baptist University
New
Poems from One-Horse Oklahoma
II.
11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium
karla k morton – Denton, Texas
Constant
State of Leaping
George McCormick – Cameron University
Inland
Empire
Raquel Rivera –McKinney, Texas
Heathen
*** Lunch ***
III.
2:00 – 3: 30 North Lounge
Carol Hamilton – Midwest City,
Oklahoma
Such
Deaths
Terry Dalrymple – Angelo State
University
Dead
Dogs
Jennifer Kidney – Norman, Oklahoma
Some Things I Lost
Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas
Dust
IV.
2:00 – 3:30 Estep Auditorium
Rilla Askew – Kauneonga
Lake, New York
Rhumba
Mark Allen Jenkins – Univ Texas at Dallas
Worse
Places than Zanesville Ohio
Mary Stone – Missouri Western State
University
Mythology
of Touch
Alan Berecka – Del Mar College
Invested
& Other Poems
V.
3:45 – 5:00 Estep Auditorium
Gary Worth Moody – Santa
Fe, New Mexico
Skinned Light
A.J.
Tierney – Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Cell
Alan
Gann – Plano, Texas
A Teaching Artist Reflects
VI. 3:45 – 5:00 North Lounge
Andrew Geyer – Univ South Carolina -Aiken
Flight
Charlotte Renk – Athens, Texas
The Tenderest
Petal Hears
Jim Wilson – Seminole State College
Koroviev and
Behemoth
VII.
7:00 – Estep Auditorium
(Music by Jonathan Isaacs begins at 6:30)
Featuring Mary Kay Zuraleff
(Reception for Authors to follow)
Featuring Mary Kay Zuraleff
(Reception for Authors to follow)
Thursday, January 1, 2015
The 12th Annual R. Darryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest
East Central University
Presents
Oklahoma’s Most Prestigious High School Writing CompetitionPrizes awarded at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, March 31 – April 2, 2016
Fiction: 1st Place $200, 2nd Place $150, 3rd Place $100, 16 Honorable Mention Awards of $25 each
Poetry: 1st Place $200, 2nd Place $150, 3rd Place $100, 16 Honorable Mention Awards of $25 each
Guidelines:
* All Oklahoma
high school students (9th - 12th grade) are eligible.
* Poetry (up to 100 lines) or Short Fiction (up to 6,000 words) is
acceptable.
* Limit 3 poems and 1 short fiction piece per student.
* All entries must be the original work of the student.
* All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space fiction
entries.
* Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.
* No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except
for the title.
* Provide cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s name;
2) Teacher’s name; 3) School 4)
Classification 5) Phone number, Email and mailing address.
* Work may be submitted through conventional mail or email.
DEADLINE: Conventional mail must be postmarked on or before February 5, 2016. Email entries must be sent
by 11:59 p.m. on February 5, 2016. There will be no
exceptions.
Winners will be notified in early March,
and awards will be presented Saturday, April 2 at the Scissortail Writing
Festival held on the East Central University campus, March 31 - April 2, 2016.
A list of winners and winning entries may be posted on this website, which also has festival and contest history and previous award-winning Fisher contest entries.
Poetry
Submissions: send work electronically as
attached files to jgrasso@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Joshua Grasso, East Central
University , Dept. of
English & Languages, 1100 E.
14th St. , Ada , OK
74820
Fiction
Submissions: send work electronically as
attached files to mwalling@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Mark Walling, East Central
University , Dept. of
English and Languages, 1100 E.
14th St. , Ada , OK
74820
Contest Information: Dr. Joshua Grasso (580-235-3197); Dr. Mark Walling
(580-559-5440). Scissortail Creative
Writing Festival Information: Dr. Ken Hada
(580-559-5557)
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