2018: Schedule of Readings

13^th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival

April 5-7, 2018

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, April 5

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium 

Jason Poudrier - Cameron University

Pvt Pau & We All Had Our Wives

Terri Cummings – Nichols Hills, Oklahoma

Voyeur

Alan Gann – Dallas, Texas

Field Notes: Love, Politics & Movie Musicals

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Don Stinson – Northern Oklahoma College

from Flatline Horizon

Gay Pasley – Edmond, Oklahoma

Fact Finding

John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma

for havin' gotten rid of me: love-lyrics Flip-side B: all the goodbyes

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 – 3:20 North Lounge

Hank Jones – Tarleton State University

A Rash of Poetry

Dorothy Alexander – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Nevertheless: The Art of Persistence

Christopher Soden – Dallas, Texas

Little Bird

Bill McCloud – Pryor, Oklahoma

Recovering the Rhythm of War

IV. 2:00 – 3:20 Estep Auditorium

Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, Arkansas

For My Ancestors

Aaron Glover – Dallas, Texas

They Say the Plains are Lonely

Laurence Musgrove – Angelo State University

One Kind of Recording

Daniel Miller – Amarillo, Texas

To Shoot a Rattlesnake

V. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Ann Howells – Carrollton, Texas

Softly Beating Wings

Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lolita, The Bird and the Black-Tongued Dog

Rebecca Hatcher Travis – Sulphur,
Oklahoma from Constant Fires

Roy Beckemeyer – Wichita, Kansas

Amanuensis Angel

VI. 7:00 – 8:15 Estep Auditorium

                   

Carol Coffee Reposa – San Antonio, Texas

In Oklahoma & other poems

Andrew Geyer – Univ. of South Carolina-Aiken

Tangled Up in Blue

Robin Carstensen –Texas A&M - Corpus Christi

Poetry: Histories and Wars

Alan Berecka – Del Mar College

Finally, The Hamlet of Stittville

(Authors’ Reception TBA)

Friday, April 6

VII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

William Peter Grasso –Tulsa, Oklahoma

from Our Ally, Our Enemy

Maureen DuRant – Cameron University

Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border

Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas

García Lorca Is Somewhere in Produce.

VIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Eddie Malone – University of Oklahoma

The Healing Project

Rilla Askew – University of Oklahoma

They Live Meanly Here

IX. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Larry D. Thomas – Las Cruces, New Mexico

The Innkeeper

Roxie Faulkner Kirk - Morris, Oklahoma

from Save Yourself

  

X. 11:00 – 11:50 North Lounge

Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University

Drowning the Monsters

Joey Brown - Missouri Southern State Univ.

Content Subject to Change

Chris Murphy – Northeastern State University

Roscoe & flash fiction

XI. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Paul Juhasz – Allentown, Pennsylvania

Proxy

Steven Schroeder - Chicago, Illinois

In the Path of Totality

Richard Dixon – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Leaving Home

*** Lunch ***

XII. 2:00 – 3:20 North Lounge

Sally Rhoades – Albany, New York

Don’t Put Plastic Flowers on My Grave

Thomas Murphy- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

The Barron Park Diwan

Yvonne Carpenter – Clinton, Oklahoma

Poems from the Prairie

Preston Marshall – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

from Regicide

XIII. 2:00 -3:20 Estep Auditorium

John Morris – Cameron University

Selflessly Through the End of the Steps

Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas

Red Riding Hood’s Sister

Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, Missouri

from Queries and Wonderments

Robert Dean Jr. – Augusta, Kansas

At the Lake with Heisenberg

XIV. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Sly Alley – Tecumseh, Oklahoma

That Good Medicine & other poems

Cindy Huyser – Austin, Texas

Siren Hours

Chris Ellery – Angelo State University

America Is Having an Existential Crisis

Ron Wallace – Southeastern Ok State U.

from Renegade

XV. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

Featuring George Bilgere

                   

Saturday, April 7

XVI. 9:00– 10:15 Estep Auditorium

Nathan Brown – Wimberley, Texas

An Honest Day’s Confession

Michael Howarth – Missouri Southern State U.

A Scoundrel Looks at Forty

Maryann Hurtt – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

How My Heart Learned to Bleed Orange

Paul Austin – Norman, Oklahoma

Notes for Hard Times

XVII. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium

Abigail Keegan – Oklahoma City University

I Could Turn and Live with Animals

Simon Han – Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Impossible Task of Remembering the Nanking Massacre

Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University

Cairns, Cigars, and the Blues

Paul Bowers – Northern Oklahoma College

Quiet and Loud

XVIII. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

* Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher State High School Contest Winners