11th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival
Thursday, March 31
I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium
Michael Howarth – Missouri
Southern University
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
Dorothy Alexander- Santa Fe,
Oklahoma
Coming & Going: Departures & Homecomings
Paul Austin – Norman,
Oklahoma
Monk, and other poems
II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium
Andrew Geyer – University of
South Carolina - Aiken
Pink Elephants
Jenny Yang Cropp – Cameron
University
String Theory
Shaun Perkins – Locust Grove,
Oklahoma
Poem Life
III. 11:00 -12:15 North Lounge
Steven Schroeder – Chicago, Illinois
The Moon, not the Finger, Pointing
Kerri Vinson Snell –
McPherson College
Topography of the Light-Filled
Nathan Brown – Wimberly,
Texas
To Sing Hallucinated: First Thoughts on Last Word
Words
*** Lunch ***
IV. 2:00 – 3: 15 North Lounge
Charlotte Renk – Athens, Texas
This Great
Turtle Heart: The Tao of Turtlism
John Morris –
Cameron University
One of the Things You Wouldn’t Think a Man Would Remember
William Peter Grasso – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Operation Fishwrapper
V. 2:00 – 3:15 Estep Auditorium
Sally Rhoades –
Albany, New York
Where Light Falls
Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton,
Missouri
Three-Corner Catch
Yvonne Carpenter – Clinton,
Oklahoma
From an Oklahoma Farm
VI. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium
Brent Newsom – Oklahoma
Baptist University
You a Good Man
Mary Anna Evans – University of Oklahoma
A Nice
Atheist Boy
Tom Murphy – Texas A & M
– Corpus Christi
American History
VII. 3:30 –
4:45 North Lounge
Joey Brown – Missouri
Southern State University
Tyler
Rayshell Clapper
– Seminole State College
Not a Bad Girl
Charles Etheridge – TX A
&M – Corpus Christi
The Brenner Pass
VIII. 7:00 – Estep Auditorium
(Musical Prelude: OPUS 1, begins at 6:30)
Larry D. Thomas – Alpine,
Texas
As If Light Actually Matters
Rilla Askew – University of
Oklahoma
Home Territory
Paul Bowers – Northern
Oklahoma College
The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life
(Authors’ Reception follows
at Vintage 22)
Friday, April 1
IX. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium
Alan Gann – Dallas, Texas
Literary Springboards
Jason Poudrier – Cameron
University
What about
Fitch?
Jennifer Long – Eufaula,
Oklahoma
I Swim Upstream
X. 9:00 – 9:50 North Lounge
Hank Jones
–Tarleton State University
More Life to Lead, More Books to Read
Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas
Rock and Friends
Robert Broyles – Oklahoma
City, OK
Love Lost
XI. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium
Bayard Godsave – Cameron
University
The Clay Eaters
Jennifer Kidney –
Norman, Oklahoma
Tempus Fugit
A.W. Marshall – Tulsa,
Oklahoma
Simple Pleasures
XII. 10:00 -10:50 North Lounge
Ann Howells – Carrolton,
Texas
Under a Lone Star
John Yozzo –
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Broaching Wife & Epithalamia Over Time
Chera Hammons –
Amarillo, Texas
The Poetry of Bomb City
XIII. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium
Michael Dooley –
Tarleton State University
The Cowboy and the Hippy Chick
Terri Cummings – Oklahoma
City, OK
A New Season
Todd Fuller – University of
Oklahoma
Binaries at the End of Nostalgia
XIV. 11:00 -11:50 North Lounge
George McCormick – Cameron
University
Inland Empire
Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth,
Texas
My Inheritance & other poems
JC “Catfish”
Mahan– Edmond, OK
Autumn on Costa Brava
*** Lunch ***
XV. 2:00 – 3:15 North Lounge
Rebecca Hatcher Travis –
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Constant Fires
Haesong Kwon – Little Priest
Tribal College
Independence Fighter
Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe,
New Mexico
The Burnings
XVI. 2:00 -3:15 Estep Auditorium
Walter Bargen – Ashland, Missouri
Did You Say That! – Persona Prose Poems
Brady Peterson – Belton,
Texas
He Writes Poetry and Makes Soup
Maryann Hurtt –
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices
XVII. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium
Chris Ellery – Angelo State
University
Sunday of Divine Mercy
Chip Dameron –
Brownsville, Texas
Drinking from the River
Robin Carstensen – TX A &
M-Corpus Christi
Ode to Before We Were Dance and Form
XVIII. 3:30 – 4:45 North Lounge
Hardy Jones – Cameron
University
Praying Hands
Lucie Smoker – Enid, Oklahoma
Make More With Your Short Sticks
Debbi Brody –
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2nd Generation American: Ancestor
Influences
XIX. 7:00 Estep Auditorium
Featuring Naomi Shihab Nye
(Music by Rowdy Folk begins at 6:30 pm)
followed by Moonlighter’s
Combo
& Awarding Collegiate
Writers’ Contest
at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center
(the corner of 14th
& Rennie Streets)
Saturday, April 2
XX. 9:15– 10:15 Estep Auditorium
karla k. morton – Fort Worth,
Texas
For the Love of the Horse
For the Love of the Horse
Ron Wallace – Southeastern
State University
A Song for Lesser Gods
Julie Chappell – Tarleton
State University
Mad Habits of a Life
XXI. 10:30 -12:00 Estep Auditorium
Elizabeth Raby –
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dodging Ice
Terry Dalrymple – Angelo
State University
Dead Dogs
Jessica Isaacs – Seminole
State College
Dumplins & other poems
Alan Berecka –
Del Mar College
Post Modern Nostalgia
XXII. 12:15– 1:15pm Estep Auditorium
Grand Finale: Featuring Ben Myers
& Awarding the
Dr. Darryl Fisher
State High School
Contest Winners
