tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43717504614151540732024-03-18T09:34:39.835-05:00scissortail creative writing festivalThe 19th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival will be held April 4-6, 2024 in Ada, Oklahoma. Submission guidelines are posted below.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-41674152973814477792024-01-18T17:36:00.000-06:002024-01-18T17:37:00.844-06:0019th Annual Scissortail: The Poster<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKa4gP3R-PgwSGK8FPjL2WtXvPGOMt9qTDOeyzMUeckDG3p1Dw6QGrQQd1JWy0ptvcCNZ6mRWlEjTEuz5LzcidOc2bKSIdWQ2rTH29JpaRw5oYgdcoRa99HBxNtNmEikyQcbLe6LbQrlfawx5WYxlClj4saqgUEpLfXer3X2cZSw1p-mmri3_Zqyqjf1ng/s792/Final%20Draft_Scissortail%20Creative%20Writing%20Festival_2024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKa4gP3R-PgwSGK8FPjL2WtXvPGOMt9qTDOeyzMUeckDG3p1Dw6QGrQQd1JWy0ptvcCNZ6mRWlEjTEuz5LzcidOc2bKSIdWQ2rTH29JpaRw5oYgdcoRa99HBxNtNmEikyQcbLe6LbQrlfawx5WYxlClj4saqgUEpLfXer3X2cZSw1p-mmri3_Zqyqjf1ng/s16000/Final%20Draft_Scissortail%20Creative%20Writing%20Festival_2024.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-49777565850053241742024-01-18T17:35:00.012-06:002024-03-07T16:21:06.941-06:002024: Schedule of Readings<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">19<sup>th</sup>
Annual</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">:
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Scissortail </b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Creative Writing
Festival<br /></b></span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">April
4 - 6, 2024</b><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">East
Central University<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ada,
Oklahoma</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday, April 4</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep
Auditorium </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tina Carlson: Santa Fe, New Mexico<br /><i>A
Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery<br /></i>Walter
Bargen: Ashland, Missouri<br /><i>Down the Rabbit Hole of War<br /></i>Mark
Walling: East Central University<br /><i>One Dalmatian</i><i><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">II. 11:00 – 12: 10 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nikki Herrin: Wayne, Oklahoma<br /><i>Progression<br /></i>Wendy
Dunmeyer: Lawton, Oklahoma<br /><i>Importance of Words<br /></i>Alan
Berecka: Sinton, Texas<br /><i>Selected Poems</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">III. 11:00 - 12:10 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Clarence
Wolfshohl: Fulton, Missouri<br /><i>Lo, the Gods<br /></i>Sally
Rhoades: Albany, New York<br /><i>When the Roses are in Bloom<br /></i>Josh
Grasso: East Central University<br /><i>The
Domovoi</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">IV. 11:00 – 12:10 Boswell Chapel</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lyman
Grant: Harrisonburg, Virginia<br /><i>November
Constellation<br /></i>Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>From
Here<br /></i>Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas<br /><i>Letters from the Edge of the Round
Earth</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">***
Lunch ***<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">V. 2:10 – 3:20 Estep Auditorium <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leah
Chaffins: Cameron University<br /><i>Army Brats & other poems<br /></i>Audell
Shelburne: Northeastern State University<br /><i>A Fine Line: Art,
Literature, & Life<br /></i>Robert
Wynne: Burleson, Texas<br /><i>Popsicles, Paintings & Poetry</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">VI. 2:10 – 3:20 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Marc
DiPaolo: SWOSU<br /><i>Ballad of a Dago Okie<br /></i>Sharon
Edge Martin: Oilton, Oklahoma<br /><i>No Boundaries<br /></i>Britton
Morgan: Wagoner, Oklahoma<br /><i>Song of the Red 46</i><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">VII. 3:30 – 4:40 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tom
Murphy: Corpus Christi, Texas<br /><i>Site 13<br /></i>Ann
Howells: Carrollton, Texas<br /><i>Specters and Other Visitors<br /></i>Bill
McCloud: Rogers State University<br /><i>The Illusionist’s Assistant</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">VIII. 3:30 – 4:40 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shaun
Perkins: Locust Grove, OK<br /><i>Witchery<br /></i>Paul
Austin: Norman, Oklahoma<br /><i>Plopping Down Steep Hill<br /></i>Christopher
Soden: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>Swaddling, and other poems</i><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">IX. 7:00 – 8:30 Estep Auditorium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Featuring: Kai Coggin<br /></b>(Authors’
Reception – Polo’s Restaurant)<br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Friday, April 5</b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">X. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ben
Myers: Oklahoma Baptist University<br /><i>Historical Markers<br /></i>Rubeena
Anjum: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>Venoms and Antidotes</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XI. 9:00 - 9:50 Regents Room <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Angela
Hooper: Oklahoma City, OK<br /><i>Where the Sky is a Wall<br /></i>Nathan
Brown: Wimberly, Texas<br /><i>The Broken Summer: Birth of a
Vagabond</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julie
Chappell: Lake Keystone, Oklahoma<br /><i>Vulgate</i>Psalm 39:3.5</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p>Chase
Dearinger: Pittsburg State University<br /><i>This New Dark</i><i><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></i>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew
Geyer: U. South Carolina - Aiken<br /><i>The Rainbow is Salty and Smells of
the Sea<br /></i>Joey
Brown: Missouri Southern State U.<br /><i>The Inconveniences of Love</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XIV. 10:00 – 10:50 Boswell Chapel</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Woodstok
Farley: Tarleton State University<br /><i>Falling Into My Nightmare<br /></i>Audrey
Kallenberger, Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>The Year of Our Lady of Surrender</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XV. 11:00 – 12:10 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John
Morris: Cameron University<br /><i>Bodies Littering the Floor &
other poems<br /></i>Jessica
Huntley: Krebs, Oklahoma<br /><i>Palms Out<br /></i>Quinn
Carver Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Before it Sets In, & other
poems</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVI. 11:00 – 12:10 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ron
Wallace: Durant, Oklahoma<br /><i>Life is a Disappearing Act<br /></i>Yvonne
Carpenter: Arapaho, Oklahoma<br /><i>Bringing in the Sheaves<br /></i>Stanton Yeakley: Tulsa,
Oklahoma</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><i>Below the Bible Belt</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVII. 11:00 -12:10 Boswell Chapel</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David
Meischen: Albuquerque, New Mexico<br /><i>What a Body can Bear: Nopalito,
Texas Stories<br /></i>Claire
Collins: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>What Freedom is This?<br /></i>Jim
Roberts: Paris, Texas<br /><i>Of Fathers & Gods</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">***
Lunch ***<b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVIII. 2:10 – 3:20 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Bublitz:
Cameron University<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><i>Combat Pay<br /></i>Nell
Johnson: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<br /><i>What is Now Mine<br /></i>Alan
Gann: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>I am not an Avocado</i><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XIX. 2:10 -3:20<span style="color: red;"> </span>Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heather
Levy: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<br />from <i>Hurt for Me<br /></i>Cody
Baggerly: East Central University<br /><i>Somewhere Between<br /></i>Remi
Recchia: Stillwater, Oklahoma<br /><i>Stardust</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XX. 3:35 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rob
Roensch: Oklahoma City University<br />from<i> In the Morning, the City is the Prairie<br /></i><strong>Cullen
Whisenhunt: Eastern OK State College<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></strong><i>Until Air Itself is Tinted<br /></i>Rilla
Askew: University of Oklahoma<br /><i>They Tell it Wrong – poems</i><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXI. 7:00 – 8:30 pm Estep
Auditorium </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Featuring: Steve Yarbrough</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recognition
of Undergraduate Writers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Reception
for Authors & Guests at: Ross-Osborn Family Foundation Event Center <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Saturday, April 6</b><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXII. 9:00 – 10:25 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul
Juhasz: Seminole State College<br /><i>The Fires of Heraclitus<br /></i>Roseanna
Alice Boswell: Stillwater, Oklahoma<br /><i>In
the House | In the Woods<br /></i>Corbett
Buchly: Richardson, Texas<br /><i>Finding New Portals<br /></i>Molly
Sizer: Lawton, Oklahoma<br /><i>The Pain of Being</i><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXIII. 9:00 – 10:25 Regents Room</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hank
Jones: Tarleton State University<br /><i>Press the Soil Down<br /></i>Aly
Allen: Oklahoma State University<br /><i>Paying for Gas with Quarters<br /></i>John
Yozzo: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Rhythms & Riddles: Loss &
What Follows<br /></i>D.L.
Lang: Vallejo, California<br /><i>The Journey and the Destinations</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXIV. 10:35 -11:50 Estep Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul
Bowers: Northern Oklahoma College<br /><i>Tortuga Jorge<br /></i>Denise
Tolan: San Antonio, Texas<br /><i>from Italian Blood<br /></i>Chris Murphy: Northeastern State University<br /><i>Mazza<br /></i>Ky
George: Gallup, New Mexico<br /><i>Fire in the Pulpit</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXV. 12:15 – 1:00 pm Estep
Auditorium</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grand Finale, Featuring:<br /></b><b>Quraysh Ali Lansana</b><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Click <a href="https://ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-scissortail-biographies.html">here</a> for complete bios of all authors.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-83287564154133740022024-01-18T17:35:00.011-06:002024-01-22T13:30:09.266-06:0019th Annual Scissortail: Featured Authors<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"></span></span></div><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUEaqGUC9Udr3mKhet-SFr48dElwYe_-KHMYQbqxfq_932u2VjYowJgMmS5mm1OuPY_J9uwVkvQBijAJuPBRHPBWM9avMPoFVXtMDl-vQBh7y5h_AlbeZ19PyFdfv_zOwlnjda4U-lSnS1Kd4m4bpatCKSgsdWqv4QblJhucbNLUTBde3_ZVFDziY5eov0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUEaqGUC9Udr3mKhet-SFr48dElwYe_-KHMYQbqxfq_932u2VjYowJgMmS5mm1OuPY_J9uwVkvQBijAJuPBRHPBWM9avMPoFVXtMDl-vQBh7y5h_AlbeZ19PyFdfv_zOwlnjda4U-lSnS1Kd4m4bpatCKSgsdWqv4QblJhucbNLUTBde3_ZVFDziY5eov0=w272-h400" width="272" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kai Coggin </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(she/her) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of
Hot Springs, and author of four collections, most recently <i>Mining for
Stardust</i> (FlowerSong Press 2021). She is a Certified Master
Naturalist, a K-12 Teaching Artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, an
CATALYZE Grant Fellow with the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and host of the
longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WednesdayNightPoetry" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Wednesday Night Poetry</span></a><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">.</span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
<br />
<span class="wixui-rich-texttext">Recently awarded the Don Munro Leadership in
the Arts Award, the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award, twice named “Best Poet in
Arkansas” by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arkansas Times</i>, and
nominated for Arkansas State Poet Laureate and Hot Springs Woman of the Year,
her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated six times for The Pushcart
Prize, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016,
2018, 2021— awarded in 2022. Ten of Kai’s poems are going to the moon with the<span style="color: #18b2db;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.lunarcodex.com/" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Lunar Codex</span></a><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> project, and on earth
they have appeared or are forthcoming in <i>POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Best
of the Net, Cultural Weekly, SOLSTICE, Bellevue Literary Review, TAB, The Night
Heron Barks, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Tupelo Press</i>, and elsewhere.
Coggin is Editor at large at <i>SWWIM</i> and is Associate Editor
at <i>The Rise Up Review</i>. She also serves on the Board of Directors of
the</span></span><a href="https://hsdfi.org/" target="_blank"><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span color="windowtext" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #18b2db; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hot Springs Documentary
Film Festival.</span></span></a><span class="wixui-rich-texttext"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> She lives with her wife
and their two adorable Fu dogs in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.</span></span></span><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTBhTMYMYQngFyIpJME3vRuImuer6jJ7D3JxFjGUrsFFLz1bYB33i7XvmYLMjKWr1T2v_TUCaBcETPVys3kDFGvb-q7Pco4OdOX7HWRHtGk9sfoq2JPdF3wZ6Y6ReM8axooaCuEhy-sFQI3_FzEzLediltCjdNIGBy_uVgcQwsL36AA0KSH0BwuRB0JXuq" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTBhTMYMYQngFyIpJME3vRuImuer6jJ7D3JxFjGUrsFFLz1bYB33i7XvmYLMjKWr1T2v_TUCaBcETPVys3kDFGvb-q7Pco4OdOX7HWRHtGk9sfoq2JPdF3wZ6Y6ReM8axooaCuEhy-sFQI3_FzEzLediltCjdNIGBy_uVgcQwsL36AA0KSH0BwuRB0JXuq=w400-h259" width="500" /></a><b>Quraysh Ali Lansana</b> is author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children's literature. Lansana is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow and a Visiting Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. He was formerly a Lecturer in Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa where he also served as Director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation. Lansana is Executive Producer of KOSU/NPR's "Focus: Black Oklahoma" monthly radio program, which is a recipient of a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award, a 2022 NAACP Image Award, a 2022 Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Award and was a Peabody nominee. Lansana is also the recipient of a 2022 Emmy Award, a 2022 Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Award and a 2022 National Educational Telecommunications Association Public Media Award for his roles as host and consultant for the OETA (PBS) documentary film "Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later." Lansana is a three-time International Regional Magazine Award-winning Contributing Editor for <i>Oklahoma Today</i> magazine. A former faculty member of both the the Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drama Division of The Julliard School, Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2012 and was Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing there until 2014. His most recent books include, <i>Opa's Greenwood Oasis</i>, <i>the skin of dreams; new and collected poems, 1994-2018</i>, <i>The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent</i>, and <i>The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop</i>. Forthcoming titles include <i>Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse</i>, with Joel Daniel Phillips, a children's biography of Ralph Ellison, and a series of books on The Black Rodeo. Lansana's work appears in <i>Best American Poetry 2019</i>. He is a founding member of Tri-City Collective and serves on the Board of Directors of the Philbrook Museum of Art and Oklahoma Humanities, is a Curatorial Scholar for The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art and a Curatorial Board Co-Chair for the Ragdale Foundation. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of the first cohort of the Culture of Health Leadership for Racial Healing Fellowship.</div><div><div><br />
<br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span>Steve Yarbrough</span></b><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRVoG5d0lr4AqNHl1VGAHzPgALaFu4U6gn2fRjuuXRk_1ElQ0F8Kf_E0SpBVs9dfMkgKZml884MZD_qHn1xYEaOYwj3c4fdArrUdct_8_JWGD79q0_JvJfsHo8TtzXlVSIMCvIwYa0q3kPUd48In8Ct-ydsMEV9sUZM7Y3WtNnkGlW3Uua2XQ8_vdewenw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRVoG5d0lr4AqNHl1VGAHzPgALaFu4U6gn2fRjuuXRk_1ElQ0F8Kf_E0SpBVs9dfMkgKZml884MZD_qHn1xYEaOYwj3c4fdArrUdct_8_JWGD79q0_JvJfsHo8TtzXlVSIMCvIwYa0q3kPUd48In8Ct-ydsMEV9sUZM7Y3WtNnkGlW3Uua2XQ8_vdewenw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span> is the author of twelve books,
most recently the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stay Gone Days. </i>His
other books are the nonfiction title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bookmarked</i>:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show</i>,
the novels <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unmade</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">World, The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from
the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Visible Spirits</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oxygen Man</i>, and the short story collections <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Veneer, Mississippi History</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Family Men</i>. His work has been published
in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Polish,
and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K. He is the recipient
of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the
Robert Penn Warren Award. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and
is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unmade World</i> won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The son
of Mississippi Delta cotton farmers, Steve is currently a professor in the
Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. He has two
daughters – Lena Yarbrough and Antonina Parris – and is married to the Polish
writer Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
divide their time between Boston and Krakow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve
is an aficionado of jazz and bluegrass music, which he plays on guitar,
mandolin and banjo, often after midnight.</span></p><p></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-33542652866847733282024-01-18T16:20:00.003-06:002024-03-18T09:34:08.891-05:002024: Scissortail Biographies<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">Aly Allen</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> is a trans,
neurodivergent poet, parent, and veteran. She is the author of <i>Paying
for Gas with Quarters</i> (Middle West Press, 2023) and the chapbook <i>Approaching
Valhalla</i> (Bottlecap Press, 2022). She has been an editor, reviewer,
and reader for publications including: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Cimarron Review,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Consequence, Glass
Mountain, & Inkling</i>. She founded the Military Memoirs Workshop (for
veterans, servicemembers, and their families) and Edited the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Military Memoirs Journal,</i> featuring the
work of a Vietnam veteran and their daughter. Her recent publications appear
in: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Art Poetry, Panoply</i>, new
words (press), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Press Pause, Consequence,
New Note Poetry</i>, and @ThreadsLitMag. She won the 2019 Lillie Robertson
Prize for Poetry. She holds an MFA creative writing from Oklahoma State
University, where she now teaches. Follow her on Threads and
Instagram @notasquirrel</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Dr.
Rubeena Anjum</b> is an educator and a psychologist. Now retired,
she is one of the members of the Richardson Poets Group and Dallas Poets
Community. Her work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Ekphrastic Review, The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bosphorus
Review of Books</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Artistic Antidote
UMN Clinical Affairs, Corona Virus Anthology</i> by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Austin International Poetry Festival-2020</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Art on the Trails: Mending 2021 Chapbook, Word City</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Literary Journal, Southwestern American
Literature</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Writer’s
Garret-Common Language Project</i>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Networks
Anthology 2023</i>, among others. Her full-length collection of poems by
Finishing Line Press-2023 is titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My
Photo Album.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rilla Askew</b> is the author of five novels,
a book of stories, and a collection of creative nonfiction. She’s received the
American Book Award, Western Heritage Award, Oklahoma Book Award, and Arts and
Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essays,
poems, and short fiction have appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nimrod, Tin House, World Literature Today, AGNI,</i> and elsewhere. Askew’s novel <i>Prize for the Fire</i>, about Early
Modern English writer Anne Askew, was a finalist for the 2023
Oklahoma Book Award. A new collection of stories, <i>The Hungry & The Haunted</i>, will be published by Belle Point
Press in Fall 2024.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Austin’s</b> most recent book is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spontaneous Behavior, the Art and Craft of
Acting</i>, published by Turning Plow Press in 2022. His poetry collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Notes on Hard Times</i>, was published by
Village Books Press. His work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Land, Sugar Mule, Oklahoma Review, More Monologues by Men,</i> and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newport Review</i>. His poems have also
been included in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Speak Your Mind, the
2019 anthology of</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Woody Guthrie Poets</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bull</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush, an anthology of Oklahoma poetry</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind the mask: Haiku in the Time of
Covid-19, Jerry Jazz Musician</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LEVEL
Land: poems for and about</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the I-35
corridor</i>. Turning Plow Press is preparing is latest collection Mother and
Son for a release TBD. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Late Night
Conspiracies</i>, a collection of his writings, was performed with jazz
ensemble at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. More about his writing and his
life in the theatre can be found on his website: https://paustin.net.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cody Baggerly</b> is a graduate of East Central
University, where he received his degree in English and Literature. He has been
featured in three volumes of ECU’s literary journal, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Originals</i>. He also served as editor of the 2022 volume of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Originals</i> and has had work featured
on The<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> NoSleep</i> Podcast and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rising Phoenix Review,</i> a monthly
online literary magazine. Cody currently serves as ECU’s Communications
Specialist and writer for their Marketing Department with articles featured in
a variety of news outlets. He also has two more poems slated for release by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rising Phoenix Review</i> in the coming
weeks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Walter Bargen </b>has published 27 books of poetry
including: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Other Mother’s Red
Mercedes</i> (Lamar University Press, 2018), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Until Next Time</i> (Singing Bone Press, 2019), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pole Dancing in the Night Club of</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God</i> (Red Mountain Press, 2020), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Wounded Miracle</i>, (Liliom Verlag,
2021), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Too Late to Turn</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back </i>(Singing Bone Press, 2023),
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radiation Diary: Return to the
Sea</i> (Lamar University Press, 2023). He was appointed the first poet
laureate of Missouri (2008-2009). His awards include: a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship, Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and the William
Rockhill Nelson Award. He currently lives outside Ashland, Missouri, with
his wife and too many former feral cats.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alan Berecka</b> is a retired librarian, who lives in Sinton, Texas, with his congenial wife Alice and ornery Belgian Shepherd Ophelia. His sixth full collection, <i>Atlas Sighs: Selected and New Poem </i>was published in late 2023 by Turning Plow Press. From
2017-2019, he served as the first poet laureate of Corpus Christi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Roseanna Alice Boswell</b> is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hiding in a Thimble</i> (Haverthorn
Press, 2021) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imitating
Light </i>(Iron Horse Literary Review, 2021). A Pushcart Prize and Best of
the Net nominee, Roseanna holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and
is a Ph.D. student in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University.
Her work has appeared in: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RHINO,</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whiskey Island, Glass: A Journal of</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry,</i> and elsewhere. Originally
from upstate New York, Roseanna currently haunts Oklahoma with her husband and
their three cats.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Bowers</b> lives with his wife on a ten-acre
farm in Ringwood, Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from The University of Tulsa, M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Oklahoma State University, and he currently teaches
writing and literature at Northern Oklahoma College in Enid. He is the author
of three poetry collections and a short story collection, and is the founder of
Turning Plow Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joey Brown</b> is a poet and a fiction writer.
She has authored two poetry collections: <i>The Feral</i> <i>Love Poems</i>
(Hungry Buzzard Press) and<i> Oklahomaography</i> (Mongrel Empire Press). Her
poems and prose have appeared in <i>The Red Earth Review, Plainsong, Concho
River Review, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Tulsa Review, Oklahoma
Review, The San Pedro River Review</i>, and other journals. She frequently
performs her poetry at festivals and writing conferences around the Midwest,
South, and sometimes beyond. In 2023 Joey was chosen to be featured writer of
the Oswald Writers Series at the University of South Carolina-Aiken. Her poetry
has been selected for several anthologies including <i>Oklahoma Poems and Their
Poets </i>(2014), and <i>The Working Man’s Hand: Poems of Protest and
Resistance</i> (2023). She lives with her husband, prose writer Michael
Howarth.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black;">Nathan Brown</span></b><span style="color: black;"> is
an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He
holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where
he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of
Oklahoma in 2013/14, and now travels fulltime performing readings, concerts,
and workshops. Nathan has published 26 books. Most recent is his new collection
of poems, <i>In the Days of Our Endurance,</i> the fifth in a series
now known as the Pandemic Poems Project, a collection of commissioned poems
that deal with the days of the pandemic, and a travel memoir <i>Just
Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. Karma Crisis: New and
Selected Poems, </i>was a finalist for the <i>Paterson Poetry Prize</i> and
the<i> Oklahoma Book Award</i>. His earlier book, <i>Two Tables Over</i>,
won the <i>Oklahoma Book Award</i>. </span></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David
R. Bublitz</b> is the son of a veteran. He completed an MFA
at the Oklahoma City University Red Earth program. He is a 2015 Pangaea Prize
finalist, a <em>Naugatuck
River Review</em> narrative poetry contest finalist, and a
founding editor of Oklahoma City University’s graduate literary magazine,
the <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Red Earth Review</span></em>. His first collection of poems,
“Combat Pay,” was published by Main Street Rag in May 2020. He has also
published poetry in <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">CONSEQUENCE Magazine</span></em>; <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">O-Dark-Thirty</span></em>; <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">f(r)iction</span></em>; <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks</span></em>;
and <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors</span></em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Corbett Buchly’s</b> poems have appeared in 23
journals, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SLAB, Rio Grande
Review, North</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dakota Quarterly</i>, and Barrow
Street. He is an alumnus of Texas Christian University and the
professional writing program at the University of Southern California. He
currently resides in Northeast Texas with his wife and two children. You can
find him online at <a href="http://buchly.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">buchly.com</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tina Carlson </b>is a New Mexico poet and a
psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in perinatal mental health. She is
the author of three full-length collections of poetr<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">y</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">:</span> <i>Ground,
Wind, This Body</i> (UNM Press, 2017), <i>We Are Meant to Carry Water</i>
(3: A Taos Press), a collaboration with 2 other NM poets, and <i>A Guide to
Tongue Tie Surgery</i> (UNM Press, 2023). Her chapbook, <i>Obsidian</i>, will
be published by Dancing Girl Press in 2024.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yvonne Carpenter’s</b> work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grain</i> (a Canadian literary
journal), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Concho River</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Review, Red Dirt Review, Dragon
Poets, Dos Gatos</i>, several anthologies, and ezines. She has
written three books, managed farm finances, worked for a tax accountant, a
newspaper, and taught school.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leah Chaffins</b> is a short story writer, a
novelist, and a poet. Her primary writings are horror fiction, memoir, poetry,
and journalism. Her work can be found in publications such as the
anthologies <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bull Buffalo and
Indian Paintbrush</span></em>, <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ain’t
Gonna Be Treated This Way: Poems of Protest</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em><em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">& </span></em>Resistance, <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Behind the Yellow Wallpaper</span></em>, and in
the Military Experience & the Arts journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As You</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Were, </i><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Red Earth Review</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, Oklahoma Review, Southwest
Impressions</i> and <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">580
Monthly</span></em>. Leah recently published her first novel, <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The God Seed</span></em>, and is currently
revising her second novel, <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Birthmarks:</span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em><em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucille</span></em> and a chapbook <em><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deep Prairie Bitters</span></em>. She is an
Assistant Professor at Cameron University. In her free time, Leah volunteers
with organizations that are using creative writing to positively impact the
world we share.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In her former life as a professor of medieval
and early modern English literature and creative writing, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Julie Chappell</b> published</span> six books of scholarship; a collection of
her original poetry, <i>Faultlines </i>(Village
Books Press, 2013); and other writings. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a
number of anthologies and journals including <i>Malpaïs Review</i>;<i> Voices
de la Luna; Concho River Review</i>; <i>Stone Renga</i>; <i>Bull
Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush; </i>and <i>The Working Man’s Hand:
Celebrating Woody Guthrie</i>. She has also read her work widely in a variety
of venues from California to Virginia and places in between. In 1994, she was
the Grand Slam Poetry prize winner in Lawrence, Kansas. Since retiring in 2018,
she has published two more collections of poetry, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> (Lamar
University Literary Press, 2019) and <i>As I Pirouette Away</i> (Turning
Plow Press, 2021). Her second collection, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> was
nominated for the Paterson Prize in 2020. She also has two collections of
original short stories, <i>Homecoming and Other Mythic Tales</i> (Fine
Dog Press, 2021) and <i>Contrary Qualities of Elements</i> (Fine Dog
Press, 2023). A third collection of short stories, <i>Perpetual Echoes</i>,
and a fourth collection of poetry, <i>Watermarks: Only Visible in the
Light</i>, are in progress</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Claire Collins</span></b><span style="color: black;"> is a queer poet,
teaching artist and co-founder of Poetic Justice, a program that teaches
literacy and poetry to incarcerated people. They have been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Land Press, Held Zine</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tulsa Voice</i>. They are of Mohawk,
French, and Dutch descent. As a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River,
they are working to reconnect with Kanien'kéha (Mohawk) Language and
literacies. They are currently working on a forthcoming collection of poetry
that will be released in May 2024 by the Calliope Group.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Chase Dearinger </b></span>is
an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country,
including <i>Bayou</i>, <i>The Southampton Review</i>, <i>Short
Story America</i>, and <i>Heavy Feather Review</i>. He currently serves as
the Chief Editor of <i>Emerald City</i>, a quarterly online fiction
magazine, and directs the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, an annual poetry chapbook
contest. He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Pittsburg
State University. His novel, <i>This New Dark</i>, is due out in February
of 2024 from Belle Point Press. </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marc
DiPaolo </b></span>has published <i>Fake Italian: An 83% True
Autobiography with Pseudonyms and Some Tall Tales</i> (Bordighera Press,
2021), and the nonfiction books <i>Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the
Inklings to </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Game of Thrones</span></i> (SUNY Press,
2018), <i>Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film</i> (Peter
Lang, 2007) and the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title <i>War, Politics,
and Superheroes </i>(McFarland, 2011). He has also edited essay
collections about directors Ozu and Mike Leigh with Bloomsbury, on religion in
American culture with Scarecrow, and a literary anthology with Pearson. DiPaolo
has been interviewed on NPR, BBC4, and the AMC docuseries <i>Robert
Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics</i> (s1e4, 2017). He is Associate
Professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and Secretary
for the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United
States</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Woodstok
Farley</b>,
aka <b>Michael Dooley</b>, is an assistant professor at
Tarleton State University-Stephenville, Texas. Having migrated from South
Florida to Texas, Woodstok remains more comfortable in sandals than boots. His
fiction reflects a deep yearning to return to the seacoast. Woodstok’s short
story, “As the Wave Rose,” was published in the online literary journal <i>Cybersoleil. </i>This
story is part of his episodic collection entitled <i>As the Wave Rose:
Florida Tales and Other Wandering Stories, </i>published by Fine Dog Press<i>
</i>(2020). His next collection, <i>The Water Stop Saloon: More Wandering
Tales</i>, also by Fine Dog Press, was published in 2022.</span> Coming soon is Woodstok’s first
full-length novel entitled <i>The Judas Coins.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wendy Dunmeyer’s</b> full-length collection, <i>My
Grandmother’s Last Letter</i>, was recently published by Lamar University Literary
Press. Her poetry has been selected as a finalist for the Morton Marr Poetry
Prize; received honorable mention in NDSU’s Poetry of the Plains and Prairies
Chapbook Contest; and featured in Bismarck Arts & Galleries Association’s
visual-arts exhibition, “The Artistry of Trees.” Her work has appeared in <i>Measure</i>,
<i>Natural Bridge</i>, <i>The Oklahoma Review</i>,<i> Cumberland River Review</i>,
and elsewhere. She nurtures young poets by teaching poetry classes for children
at her local library and volunteers as a visiting writer for National Poetry
Month at local elementary schools.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alan
Gann, </b></span>a teaching artist-poet, tutors and facilitates writing
workshops for underserved youth. His newest collection of poems, <i>Better
Ways to See</i> from Assure Press, features nature and ekphrastic poems
celebrating the wonder-filled attitude his parents instilled in him and his
sister. He is the author of two other volumes of poetry, <i>That’s Entertainment</i> (Lamar
University Press) and <i>Adventures of the Clumsy Juggler</i> (Inkbrush
Press), as well as <i>DaVerse Works, </i>Big Thought’s performance
poetry curriculum. Alan’s nonexistent spare time is spent outdoors: biking,
birding, and trying to photograph some of the cool things he sees there.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ky
George </b></span>is
a poet, essayist, and proud member of the Okie diaspora, living and
working in the high desert of New Mexico. Their work explores
the relationship between the land, her people, and whatever else is out there
in the great beyond. Ky is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA, and has previously
been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Red Mesa
Review, The Oklahoma Review, Insurrection</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lesbians are Miracles. </i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andrew
Geyer’s </b></span>latest individually authored book is the short story
cycle <i>Lesser Mountains</i> (Lamar University Press, 2019). A
member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the South Carolina Academy of
Authors Literary Hall of Fame, he currently serves as English Department Chair
at the University of South Carolina Aiken<i>.</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lyman
Grant </b></span>is an expat Texan living in the Shenandoah Valley. He
was a professor, department chair, and dean at Austin Community College for
over four decades. His poems and essays have appeared in several journals and
anthologies, such as <i>descant, Concho River Review, Comstock Review,
Windhover, Written in Arlington, Unknotting the Line, </i>and<i> The
Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology.</i> His most recent books
are <i>Symptom and Desire: New and Selected Poems</i> and <i>ostraca</i>,
a volume of golden shovel poems. His tenth book, <i>November
Constellation,</i> will be published in 2024.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joshua Grasso</b> is a professor of English at East
Central University, where he teaches classes in everything from Batman to Beowulf.
He has a PhD in eighteenth-century British literature from Miami University,
and many of his academic articles appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oklahoma
Humanities, The Literary</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopedia,</i>
and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MLA Approaches to Teaching</i>
series. When not teaching or grading, he writes speculative fiction stories
which have recently appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jake
Magazine, On Spec, Cosmic Roots</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and
Eldritch Shores</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales to Terrify</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Nikki Herrin </b>is an ECU alum. She had several works published in ECU's literary magazine, Originals, during her time at ECU from 2018-2021. She was worked as an English teacher and softball coach for the last three years. Last May, she was named High School Teacher of the Year for her school district.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Angela Hooper</b> is a life-long resident of
Oklahoma City. She has a BA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma.
For over twenty years she has participated in the various local community
poetry readings which has helped her hone her skills as a poet. She has been
published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mom Egg,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crosstimbers</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Living Out Loud</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ain’t
Ganna Be Treated This Way</i>. This fall she published her inaugural collection
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where the Sky is a Wall </i>(Village
Press Books).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ann
Howells </b></span>edited <i>Illya’s Honey </i>for eighteen years.
Recent books are: <i>So Long As We Speak Their Names</i> (Kelsay
Books, 2019) and<i> Painting the Pinwheel Sky</i> (Assure Press,
2020). Chapbooks include: <i>Black Crow in Flight</i>, Editor’s Choice
in <i>Main Street Rag</i>’s 2007 competition and <i>Softly Beating
Wings</i>, 2017 William D. Barney Chapbook Competition winner (Blackbead
Books). Her work appears in small press and university publications
including <i>Plainsongs, Schuylkill Valley Journal, </i>and<i> San
Pedro River Review</i>. Ann has received multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net
nominations</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jessica Huntley</b> is a visual artist, mother, and
writer based in Krebs, Oklahoma. She is the founder and inaugural president of
the McAlester Public Library Poetry Club in which she is still active and
continually supports the club’s endeavors. She is a founding member of the
Southeastern Oklahoma Creatives Coalition. A number of her poems have been
published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cross Timbers</i> (2022), a
mini-zine co-authored with her friend Britton Morgan, and she is currently
editing her first book.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nell Johnson</b> (Aries Sun, Capricorn Rising) is
graduate of the University of New Mexico, where she majored in English and
Russian. While in attendance, she worked on the staff of three different
student publications: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily
Lobo, Scribendi</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conceptions
Southwest.</i> Nell received the UNM undergraduate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lena Todd Award</i> for creative nonfiction, and her prose
and poetry have been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bending
Genres, Cordella Press, 45th Parallel</i>, and most recently, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rundelania,</i> where the poem
"Parable" was nominated for the Robert Siegel Prize. When not serving
Oklahoma County as an assistant librarian, she's reading interlibrary loans,
playing strategy games, and listening to Eurodance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quinn Carver Johnson </b>(they/them) is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Perfect Bastard</i> (Curbstone
Press, 2023), a poetry collection about queerness and class in the world of
professional wrestling. Their work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rappahannock Review, Right Hand
Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review</i>, and elsewhere.
Carver Johnson currently lives in Tulsa and hosts the People’s Poetry reading
series.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hank Jones</b> backpacked the world in his youth
hoping to find a poet within until lack of funds prompted him to seek a job at
his alma mater, Tarleton State University. He planned to stay a year or two and
get back on the road, but twenty-three years later, he is an assistant
professor at the same university. To keep his creative spirit alive, and to
hone his facility with the written word, he enrolled in the Red Earth MFA
program at Oklahoma City University from which he graduated in 2019. His poetry
has been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cybersoleil: A
Literary Journal, Voices de la Luna, Dragon Poet Review, The Concho
River Review,</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red River
Review.</i> He’s also contributed poems to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology</i> from Lamar
University Literary Press, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Speak
Your Mind: Poems of Protest & Resistance,</i> published by Village Books
Press, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stone Renga Anthology</i> from
Tale Feathers Press, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bull Buffalo and</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Indian Paintbrush (The Poetry of
Oklahoma),</i> edited by Ron Wallace; and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Working Man’s Hand: Celebrating</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Woody Guthrie, Poems of Protest and Resistance</i> (Fine Dog
Press, 2023). His first book of poetry, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Too Late for Manly Hands</i>, was published by Turning Plow Press in
2021. He now lives in a beautiful house overlooking Lake Keystone with his
wife, Julie Chappell, and drives six hours to teach his courses at
Tarleton. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul
Juhasz </b></span>was born in western New Jersey, grew up just outside New
Haven, Connecticut, and has spent appreciable chunks of his life in the plains
of central Illinois, in the upper hill country of Texas, and in the Lehigh
Valley in Pennsylvania. Most recently seduced by the spirit of the red earth,
he now lives in Oklahoma City. A graduate of the Red Earth M.F.A., his work has
appeared in several literary journals, most recently <i>Concho River
Review, Poetry Quarterly, Oklahoma Review </i>and <i>Main Street
Rag. </i>He has been serving as curator and coordinator of the Woody
Guthrie Poets since 2020. His first book, <i>Fulfillment: Diary of a
Warehouse Picker</i>—a mock journal covering his six-month stint in an Amazon
warehouse—was published by Fine Dog Press in 2020. His second book, <i>Ronin</i>,
a collection of (mostly) prose poems—also published by Fine Dog Press—was named
a finalist for the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award in poetry. His second collection of
poetry, <i>The Inner Life of Comics</i>, was published by Turning Plow
Press in the fall of 2022. A collection of short fiction, <i>As If Place
Matters</i>, was published by Fine Dog Press in the fall of 2023.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Born
and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Audrey
Kallenberger</b> has been dreamily writing poetry, prose and stories since she
was 9 years old. A deep sense of curiosity and love of travel led her to study
French Language and International Studies at the University of Oklahoma in
Norman and she left home for the East Coast in 2006. She completed a Master’s
Degree in Political Theory at The University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She
spent a life-changing summer in Beirut, Lebanon in 2010. She then moved to
Brooklyn, New York without a plan, and fell into freelance writing and acting
until she moved back to her hometown in 2018. Much to her surprise and delight,
the slower pace of life in the Midwest suits her. She published her first
book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Year of Our Lady of</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Independence</i> in 2022 and has plans to
write and publish more in 2024.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">Vallejo</span>,
California Poet Laureate Emerita <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">D.L.
Lang</b> is an internationally published poet. Her work appears in over 60
anthologies globally. She has performed her poetry hundreds of times at
festivals, demonstrations, and literary events across California. She received
proclamations from the California State Senate, California Arts Council, and
Vallejo City Council for her service as poet laureate. Her poems have been
transformed into songs, used as liturgy, and to advocate for a better world. A winner
of the 2023 Curbside Haiku contest, her haiku was displayed across downtown
Tulsa, Oklahoma and archived at the Woody Guthrie Center. She also performed at
the 2023 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival as a Woody Guthrie Poet. KPOO, KPFA, KALW,
and KZCT have broadcast her poetry. She grew up in a lot of places, including
Enid, Oklahoma. Find her at <a href="http://poetryebook.com/">poetryebook.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heather Levy</b> is a born and bred Oklahoman and
graduate of Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth MFA program for creative
writing. <i>The New York Times</i> called her Anthony-nominated
debut <i>Walking Through Needles</i> “a spellbinding novel at the
nexus of power, desire, and abuse that portends a bright future” and the <i>L.A.
Times</i> called it “a standout for its frank but sensitive exploration of
trauma and desire.” Her novels, including the forthcoming <i>Hurt for Me</i> and <i>This
Violent Heart</i>, focus on kink-positive stories centered around badass women.
She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, two kids, and three murderous cats.
Readers can follow her on X and IG @heatherllevy and explore her website
at <a href="http://www.heatherlevywriter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.heatherlevywriter.com</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sharon Edge Martin</b> writes poetry and prose. She has
published in <i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i>, <i>Family Circle,
Oklahoma Today, Outside, True West,</i> <i>Malpais Review, </i>and other
magazines.<i> </i>Her work is included in anthologies and literary texts,
including Michael Bugeja’s <i>The Art and Craft of Poetry. </i>She is a regular
contributor to <i>The Oklahoma Observer, </i>and she hosts a monthly poetry
reading at Tidewater Winery in Drumright. Sharon’s most recent books are a
poetry collection, <i>Not a Prodigal, </i>which was a finalist for the Oklahoma
Book Award, and a book of essays,<i> I’ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in
a Red State</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bill
McCloud </b></span>is a poetry editor for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Right
Hand Pointing</i> and is the poetry reviewer for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vietnam Veterans</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of America.</i>
His poetry book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Smell of the Light,</i>
reached #1 on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oklahoman's</i>
"Oklahoma Bestsellers" list. His poetry is studied at the University
School of Milwaukee in Wisconsin, the Air Force Academy in Colorado, and the
University of Tulsa. </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David Meischen</b> is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nopalito, Texas: Stories</i>, new from the
University of New Mexico Press. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caliche
Road Poems</i> is forthcoming from Lamar University Press. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anyone’s Son,</i> from 3: A Taos Press, won Best First Book of Poetry
from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. David’s work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Common, Copper</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, Naugatuck River Review, The San Pedro
River Review, Southern Poetry</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Review,
The Southern Review</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Valparaiso
Fiction Review</i>, and elsewhere. A former juror for the Kimmel Harding Nelson
center for the arts, David is an alumni of the Jentel Arts residency program.
Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives in Albuquerque, NM
with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Britton Morgan</b> is a musician, tarot reader, and
writer from the foothills of the Ozarks in Wagoner, Oklahoma. He has been an
active member of Oklahoma's music community for almost twenty years and hosts
poetry readings in punk house basements. His writing centers on history,
consciousness, and nature. He has self-published two zines<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: Synchronicity Machine</i>, a DIY guide to reading tarot,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cross Timbers</i>, a collection
of poetry with his friend Jessica Huntley.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Graves Morris,</b> Professor of English at Cameron
University, is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Noise and
Stories</i>. He is reworking the manuscript for a second collection, still
entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The County Seat of Wanting So
Many</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Things,</i> which he hopes to
begin circulating again soon, and has begun work on putting together the
manuscript of a third collection, tentatively entitled as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Strongest Song</i>, which he hopes to begin circulating soon. His
poems have appeared in various publications, most recently in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Big Muddy</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Concho River Review</i>. He lives in Lawton.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Murphy</b> is an Associate Professor of
Creative Writing at Northeastern State University. He has a collection of flash
fiction, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Burning All the Time</i>,
from Mongrel Empire Press and a fiction chapbook, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rites</i>, from USPOCO Books. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border: none; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="border: none;">Tom
Murphy</span></span></b> is the 2021-2022 Corpus Christi Poet
Laureate and the <i>Langdon Review</i>’s 2022 Writer-In-Residence.
Murphy’s books: <i>When I Wear Bob Kaufman’s Eyes </i>(2022), <i>Snake
Woman Moon </i>(2021), <i>Pearl </i>(2020),<i> American
History </i>(2017), and co-edited <i>Stone Renga</i> (2017).
He’s been published widely in literary journals and anthologies and has been
featured and has performed at GonzoFest in Louisville, Ky, at Sovereign Kava in
Asheville, NC, and Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR, Trinidad, CO
among other locations. He will be a feature reader at GonzoFest Europe in
Dublin this September.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benjamin Myers</b>
was the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and is the author of
four books of poetry: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Family Book of
Martyrs </i>(Lamar University Press, 2022), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black
Sunday </i>(Lamar University Press, 2018), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lapse
Americana</i> (New York Quarterly Books, 2013) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elegy for Trains </i>(Village Books Press, 2010). His poems may be read
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Yale Review, Image, Rattle,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter </i>and
many other literary journals. He has been honored with an Oklahoma Book Award
for Poetry and with a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers
Conference. Myers is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Literature at Oklahoma
Baptist University, where he teaches creative writing and English literature
and directs the great books honors program. His first book of non-fiction, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Poetics of Orthodoxy</i>, was recently
published by Cascade Books.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shaun
Perkins </b></span>is the founder/director of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of
Poetry, a teaching artist with the Oklahoma Arts Council, a newspaper columnist
and the co-host of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wacky Poem Life</i>
podcast. Her work has been published in a variety of books, literary journals,
newspapers, and magazines.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Brady Peterson </b></span>lives
near Belton, Texas where for twenty-nine years he worked building houses and
teaching rhetoric<i>. </i>He is the author of <i>Glued to the
Earth, Between Stations</i>, <i>Dust, From an Upstairs Window, García
Lorca Is Somewhere in Produce, </i>and <i>At the Edge of Town.</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Remi Recchia</b> (he/him), PhD, is a trans poet,
essayist, and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. A five-time Pushcart Prize
nominee, Remi's work has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">World
Literature Today</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best New Poets 2021</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prairie Schooner</i>, among others.
His works include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quicksand/Stargazing</i>
(Cooper Dillon Books, 2021); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sober</i>
(Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Lenny
Gets His Horns</i> (Querencia Press, 2023); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From
Gold, Ghosts: Alchemy Erasures</i> (Gasher Press, 2023); and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in
Literature & the Silences Around Us </i>(Sundress Publications,
forthcoming). Remi has been a Tin House Scholar and Thomas Lux Scholar and
previously served as associate editor for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cimarron Review</i>. Recently, he served as a grant reviewer for the
Poetry Foundation. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State
University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222;">Keely Record</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> lives in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Received an MFA from the Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at
Oklahoma City University. She serves on the editorial board of <i>Nimrod
International Journal</i>. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Atlas Poetica</i> and <i>Bamboo
Hut</i>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sally Rhoades</b> lives in Albany, NY. She was
part of a Community Read of Ironweed by William Kennedy on November 1st, All
Saints Day, in celebration of the New York State Writers Institute’s forty
years. Ms. Rhoades received her MA in English/ Creative Writing from the University
of Albany where the NYSWI is located. She has been featured on Charlie
Rossiter’s podcast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry Spoken Here</i>
and interviewed by Andrea Cunliffe for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hudson
Mohawk</i> magazine at WOOC105.3 FM, a Sanctuary for Independent Media. She is
published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unlocking The Word</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">an Anthology of Found Poetry, Misfit</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magazine, Dragon Poet’s Review, 2, Elegant
Rage, a poetic tribute honoring the centennial of Woody Guthrie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Highwatermark Salo[o]n performance
series</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Up the River</i> and in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peerglass,</i> an anthology of Hudson Valley
peer groups and has a chapbook, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greeted
by Wildflowers.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim Roberts</b> grew up in rural East Texas. After
college, he lived and worked briefly in Houston before moving to Cincinnati,
Ohio in the early 1980s to pursue a business career. Now a full-time writer, he
splits his time between Ohio and Texas. His fiction has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prime Number Magazine</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rappahannock Review, Snake Nation
Review, Flash Fiction Magazine</i> and is forthcoming in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ArLiJo-The Arlington Literary Journal</i>.
His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice named to the
finalist list for the Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Award. The short story
collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Of Fathers &</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gods</i> was longlisted for both the
Santa Fe Writers Project Short Fiction Prize and the W.S. Porter Prize. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob Roensch</b> is the author
of a story collection, </span><i>The Wildflowers of Baltimore</i> (Salt,
2012), a novella, <i>The World and the Zoo</i> (Outpost19, 2020) and
a novel, <i>In the Morning, the City is the Prairie</i> (Belle Point
Press, 2023). His stories were included in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2018</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best Small</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fictions 2023</i>
and listed as Distinguished Stories in the 2015 and 2022 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best American Short Stories. </i>He has been awarded a Maryland
State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Peter Taylor Scholarship in
Fiction from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Oklahoma City
University. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Audell Shelburne</b> is a professor and assistant dean
of the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah,
Oklahoma, where he teaches poetry and a few other classes. In an earlier time,
he served as chief editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Windhover </i>(2002-2010)
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Texas</i> (2002). He
has published poems in various venues, such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">descant, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Agave, Blue
Rock Review, Di</i>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Verse-City</i>. Most
recently his poems have appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Verse Virtual</i>,
anthologies published by Dos Gatos Press, Up Your Ars Poetica,
and Sequoia Speaks. In addition to the chapbook that this reading is taken
from, Shelburne is nearing a completion of a book-length collection
titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Before, Between, Above,
Below, Beyond.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Molly Sizer</b> is a retired rural sociologist
living in southwest Oklahoma. She spends much of her at the Wichita Mountain
Wildlife Refuge, and occasionally writes poetry. She enjoys presenting her
words to Lawton’s Third Saturday readings, the Woody Guthrie Poetry Readings
(2018, 2022, 2023) and the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. (2019, 2022,
2023). Her work has been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Westview</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Oklahoma Review</i>. She’s
finally working on a chapbook.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Stephen Soden</b> received his MFA in Poetry from
Vermont College of Fine Arts in January of 2005. He teaches craft, theory,
genre and literature. He writes poetry, plays, literary, film and theatre
critique for <a href="http://sharpcritic.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">sharpcritic.com</span></a> and EdgeDallas. Christopher’s poetry collection,
Gusher, was recently released by QueerMojo. He received a Full Fellowship
to Lambda Literary's Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in August 2010. His
performance piece: Queer Anarchy received The Dallas Voice's Award for
Best Stage Performance. Water and A Christmas Wish were
staged at Bishop Arts and Radio Flyer and Every Day is
Christmas. In Heaven. at Nouveau 47. Other honors include: Distinguished
Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Series, Founding
Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community. His
work has appeared in: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rattle, The
Cortland Review, 1111, Peculiar, Briar’s Lit, Typishly,
F(r)iction, G & L Review, Chelsea Station, Glitterwolf, Collective
Brightness, A Face to Meet the Faces, Resilience, Ganymede Poets: One, Gay
City 2, The Café Review, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the
Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super
Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Windy City
Times, ArLiJo, Best Texas Writing 2.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Denise Tolan's</b> work has been included in places
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Best Small Fictions, The Best
Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post, The Penn Review, Blue Mountain Review,</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atlas and Alice</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lunch Ticket.</i> Her memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Italian Blood</i>, was published by
CavanKerry Press in October 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Ron Wallace </b></span>is an Oklahoma native and currently an adjunct instructor of English at
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in Durant, Oklahoma. He is the author
of ten books of poetry, five of which have been finalists in the Oklahoma Book
Awards. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Renegade and Other Poems </i>was
the 2018 winner of the Oklahoma Book Award. Wallace has been a multiple
Pushcart Prize nominee and has recently been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oklahoma Today, Concho River Review, San Pedro River Review,
Borderlands</i> and a number of other magazines and journals. He also
edited <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush</i>, a collection of Oklahoma
Poetry and completed his first novel, <i>A Secret Lies in New
Orleans, </i>a finalist in fiction in the 2022 Oklahoma Book Awards.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mark Walling</b>is the author of the
short story collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Can Hear
Everything from Here</i>, recently published by Turning Plow Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cullen Whisenhunt</b></span>, a
graduate of Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA program, whose poetry has
been included in a variety of journals. He has published two chapbooks of
poetry with Fine Dog Press, <i>Among the Trees</i> (2020) and <i>Childish
Thing</i> (2022), and he has a full-length collection forthcoming from
Turning Plow Press. His scholarly publications include co-authoring an article
on OK author Sanora Babb and serving as a contributing editor of the blog <i>Archive
Serendipities</i>, both projects he's worked on with Dr Jeanetta Calhoun Mish.
He currently teaches English at Eastern Oklahoma State College in McAlester,
where he works with the McAlester Public Library Poetry Club and other area
arts organizations. He also co-hosts (with Ron Wallace) monthly Poetry on Lost
Street readings in Durant. </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clarence Wolfshohl</b> is professor emeritus at William
Woods University. Since his first publication in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Road Apple Review</i>, he has been active in the small press as
writer and publisher for over fifty years, publishing poetry and non-fiction in
many journals, both print and online, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Texas,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">San Pedro River
Review, Agave, Cape Rock</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
Letters</i>. Among his publications are the e-chapbook <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scattering Ashes</i> (Virtual Artists
Collective, 2016), the chapbook <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy
Toledo</i> (El Grito del Lobo Press, 2017), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queries and Wonderments</i> (El Grito del Lobo Press, 2017),
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Armadillos & Groundhogs</i>
(2019). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robert
Wynne </b></span>earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch
University. A former co-editor of Cider Press Review, he has published 6
chapbooks, and 3 full-length books of poetry, the most recent being
“Self-Portrait as Odysseus,” published in 2011 by Tebot Bach Press. He’s
won numerous prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies
throughout North America. He lives in Burleson, TX with his wife and a
lively German Shepherd. His online home is <a href="http://www.rwynne.com/" target="_blank">www.rwynne.com</a></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stanton Yeakley</b> is an attorney who
lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and writes between cases. He has been previously
published in <i>BULL, Epilogue Magazine</i>, <i>Haunted Waters Press,
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, New Plains Review</i>, and <i>Thimble
Literary Magazine</i>, among others<i>. </i>He has forthcoming work
appearing in <i>Evening Street Review</i>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John M. Yozzo</b> is a retired professor of English,
residing in Tulsa. A native of Ponca City, Oklahoma, Yozzo
was graduated from the University of Tulsa and taught college English over 34
years in Tulsa OK, Birmingham
AL, and Ada, OK. Yozzo is the author of 3 books of poems, <i>Only Wonder</i>
and <i>Echoes and </i><i>Omens,</i> with the forthcoming <i>Rhythm of
the Years</i>, through Village Books Press. Yozzo enjoys biking, especially
along the less traveled sections of the Katy Trail in Missouri, and kayaking,
especially on Lakes
Ponca and Tenkiller and the Elk River.</span></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-18250806358512728752023-11-29T16:18:00.002-06:002023-11-29T16:18:22.332-06:002024 Undergraduate Creative Writing ContestPrizes: * 1st - $100 * 2nd - $75 * 3rd - $50<div>(Plus Books & Honorable Mentions)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Guidelines:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>• Contest is open only to currently enrolled undergraduate students.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Eligible students are expected to attend the Festival. Recognition will occur Friday evening, April 5, 2024. (Please do not submit if you cannot attend the festival).</div><div><br /></div><div>• Submissions must be confirmed by a sponsoring faculty member.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Each institution is allowed a maximum of 5 (five entries); This includes ECU.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Each institution is responsible for selecting its contestants.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Submissions are limited to one of three categories: 1) one piece of short fiction (up to 7500 words), or one piece of creative nonfiction (up to 7500 words), or up to three poems (150 lines total).</div><div><br /></div><div>• Prizes will not be designated by genre, but will be awarded for best writing.</div><div><br /></div><div>• All entries must be the original work of the student.</div><div><br /></div><div>• All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space prose entries.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.</div><div><br /></div><div>• No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Provide separate Cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s Name; 2) Student’s email address AND mailing address 3) Faculty Member’s Name & Email address 3) Institution
4) Classification 5) Phone number 6) Title of original work submitted</div><div><br /></div><div>• Submit work by email to Dr. Joshua Grasso at jgrasso@ecok.edu. In the subject line of your email submission, type “Scissortail Undergraduate Contest.”</div><div><br /></div><div>• Professor Grasso will screen entries, then an outside judge will judge all entries that meet minimum guidelines.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>DEADLINE:</b> Email entries to jgrasso@ecok.edu must be received by Midnight March 1, 2024. There will be no exceptions. Recognition of writers will occur Friday April 5 as part of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival held at East Central University (April 4 - 6, 2024). Please regularly visit www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com to view festival updates. Contact: Ken Hada, khada@ecok.edu (580) 559-5557 for information regarding the Festival</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Judge</b>: Denise Tolan is graduate of The Red Earth MFA at Oklahoma City University. Her work has been included in places such as <i>The Best Small Fictions</i>, <i>The Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post</i>, <i>The Penn Review</i>, <i>Blue Mountain Review</i>, <i>Atlas and Alice</i>, and <i>Lunch Ticket</i>. Her memoir, <i>Italian Blood</i>, was published by CavanKerry Press in October 2023.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-65224343073421154442023-10-09T18:37:00.000-05:002023-10-09T18:37:01.633-05:0020th Annual R. Darryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest<p style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">E</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">ast Central University in Ada, Oklahoma presents </span></b></p><p style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="text-align: center;">Oklahoma’s Most Prestigious High School Writing Competition</b><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fiction: 1st Place $250; 2nd place: $150; 3rd Place $100<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry: 1st Place $250; 2nd place: $150; 3rd Place $100<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">20 Honorable Mention Awards of $25 each</span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Guidelines:</b></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* All <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:state></st1:place> high school students (9th - 12th grade) are eligible.<span style="color: magenta;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Poetry (up to 100 lines) or Short Fiction (up to 6,000 words) is acceptable.<span style="color: magenta;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Limit 5 poems and 1 short fiction piece per student.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* All entries must be the original work of the student.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space fiction entries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Provide cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s name; 2) High School and Teacher’s name 3) Classification (senior, junior, etc.) 4) Phone number, Email <b><i>and</i></b> <b>student’s mailing address. (</b><b>Work submitted without a mailing address for each student will not be judged)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Work may be submitted through conventional mail or email.</span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>DEADLINE:</b> Conventional mail must be postmarked on or before <b>Friday, February 9, 2024.</b> Email entries must be sent via email by 11:59 p.m. on February 9, 2024. There will be no exceptions.<b> </b>Winners will be notified and awards will be presented to students during the annual Scissortail Festival at ECU, April 8, 2023. The names of winning writers will be posted online at: <a href="http://www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com</span></a>.</span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Poetry Submissions</b>: send work electronically as attached files to jgrasso@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Joshua Grasso, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">East</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Central</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Dept. of English & Languages, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">1100 E. 14th St.</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Ada</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OK</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">74820</st1:postalcode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="WPPlainTex" style="background-color: wheat; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Fiction Submissions</b><b>:</b> send work electronically as attached files to mwalling@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Mark Walling, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">East</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Central</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Dept. of English and Languages, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">1100 E. 14th St.</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Ada</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">OK</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">74820</st1:postalcode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Contest Information</b><span style="background-color: wheat; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">: Dr. Joshua Grasso (580-235-3197); Dr. Mark Walling (580-559-5440). Scissortail Creative Writing Festival Information: Dr. Ken Hada (580-559-5557)</span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-57582780662528502162023-10-06T10:21:00.002-05:002023-10-16T10:27:20.241-05:00Tribute to Dr. Hugh Tribbey<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhierE0TZHJF31gzSLrz1eASzSB1blzcqh1Q3ZQl36bKc5XRawD9Bu05IfDQdxHhNuRsiStbbiA2Zb5o3IztNs0jNiJ37cl46H-mDl_c1pD4CIeAOeHf1KzvJ8B4UvueLBI2Zmd4wefe5jNKdx-70x5Py6yCYmUA7mbmhgOIbM5HcPGGOaiJJGbCgvstK55/s1068/Hugh%20Tribbey.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1068" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhierE0TZHJF31gzSLrz1eASzSB1blzcqh1Q3ZQl36bKc5XRawD9Bu05IfDQdxHhNuRsiStbbiA2Zb5o3IztNs0jNiJ37cl46H-mDl_c1pD4CIeAOeHf1KzvJ8B4UvueLBI2Zmd4wefe5jNKdx-70x5Py6yCYmUA7mbmhgOIbM5HcPGGOaiJJGbCgvstK55/s320/Hugh%20Tribbey.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>With
sadness, we acknowledge the passing of colleague and cofounder of the
Scissortail Festival, Dr. Hugh Tribbey, October 5, 2023.<div><br /></div><div>It was Dr. Tribbey’s
original idea for ECU to host a writing festival; he wrote the first grant for
the inaugural event, and secured our first feature author – Mark Cox.</div><div><br /></div><div>Quoting
from the obituary: “Dr. Tribbey was a brilliant individual with an
exceptionally creative and gifted mind.” He earned his Bachelors of Arts degree
from Philips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He earned a Master of Arts in
Teaching from Oklahoma City University, a Master of Arts from Midwestern
University in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a PhD from Oklahoma State University.
He taught twenty years in the Department of English & Languages at East
Central University. He was an accomplished poet, publishing nine books and
hundreds of individual poems.<br /><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-72461830242766355082023-03-09T14:42:00.000-06:002023-03-09T14:42:52.770-06:0018th Annual Scissortail: The Poster<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdC6nmY6gBhKdgTaWOeRVYvIc7sbK-dlvRDF8Aise6K10w_Rj6_VtAmllHpDnfd1teM8-cSNFH_EiWnoZkMJvACGmvKFYA0QJ5tej6tVOFC5bmA1OjGv-0A7mgHbjFIlCqu-3X2KGrw3ldrcfNoSlpvHXQsrcdWjlVWoFXTynKXm6daebkhkTygfMQnw/s792/18%20Scissortail%20Poster%20Revised.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdC6nmY6gBhKdgTaWOeRVYvIc7sbK-dlvRDF8Aise6K10w_Rj6_VtAmllHpDnfd1teM8-cSNFH_EiWnoZkMJvACGmvKFYA0QJ5tej6tVOFC5bmA1OjGv-0A7mgHbjFIlCqu-3X2KGrw3ldrcfNoSlpvHXQsrcdWjlVWoFXTynKXm6daebkhkTygfMQnw/s16000/18%20Scissortail%20Poster%20Revised.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-31657970905133258392023-03-09T14:41:00.001-06:002023-03-20T13:55:14.110-05:002023: Schedule of Readings<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">18th Annual: </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Scissortail </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Creative Writing Festival<br /></b></span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">April 6 - 8, 2023</b><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">East Central
University<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ada, Oklahoma</span><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday, April 6</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ben Myers: Oklahoma Baptist
University<br /><i>The
Family Book of Martyrs<br /></i>Denise Tolan: San Antonio, Texas<br /><i>Italian
Blood & This is What Love Looks Like<br /></i>Gary Worth Moody: Santa Fe, New
Mexico<br /><i>Cartography
of Random Graves Antlered with Unfamiliar Desert Bird</i><i><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">II. 11:00 – 12: 10 Estep Auditorium <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew Geyer: U. South Carolina -
Aiken<br /><i>Zigzaggedy<br /></i>Molly Sizer: Lawton, Oklahoma<br /><i>Loving
Our Neighbors<br /></i>Cullen Whisenhunt: Eastern OK State College<strong><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></strong><i>Childish
Thing & other poems</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">III. 11:00 - 12:10 Regents Room</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Meischen: Albuquerque, New
Mexico<br /><i>An
Alphabet for Mockingbirds<br /></i>Julie Chappell: Cleveland, Oklahoma<br /><i>Watermarks
– Only Visible in the Light<br /></i>Corbett Buchly: Richardson, Texas<br /><i>Like
All Strong Things Leave Us</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*** Lunch ***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IV. 2:15 – 3: 35 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maryann Hurtt: Elkhart Lake,
Wisconsin<br /><i>Bedlam
and Blossoms<br /></i>Alan Birkelbach: Raton, New Mexico<br /><i>Transformation:Absence,
Silence, and Distance<br /></i>Richard Dixon: Oklahoma City, OK<br /><i>West
on the 40</i><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">V. 2:15 – 3:35 Regents Room<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ann Howells: Carrollton, Texas<br /><i>My
Most Unforgettable Character<br /></i>Patrick Kindig: Tarleton State University<br /><i>The
Stephenville Poems<br /></i>John Morris: Cameron University<br /><i>The
Laws of Physics & other poems</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">VI. 3:55 – 5:10 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah Webb: Burnet, Texas<br /><i>Conversations<br /></i>Neal Ostman: Colleyville, Texas<br /><i>Earthman
– Churned Earth<br /></i>Alan Gann: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>In
Dorothy's Shadow</i><i><span style="color: #5b9bd5;"> </span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">VII. 3:55 – 5:10 Regents Room</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bill McCloud: Rogers State
University<br /><i>Hypnotic
Poetry<br /></i>Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>What
I've Seen<br /></i>Mark Walling: East Central
University<br /><i>Mother
Merry Turns Contrary</i><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">VIII. 7:00 – 8:30 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Featuring: Major Jackson</b></span><b><br /></b>(Authors’ Reception – Polo’s
Restaurant)</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday, April 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>IX. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium</b></span><b><br /></b>Rob Roensch: Oklahoma City
University<br /><i>The
World and the Zoo<br /></i>Tina Carlson: Santa Fe, New Mexico<br /><i>Let's
Say My Lover is a Volcano</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">X. 9:00 - 9:50 Regents Room<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joey Brown: Missouri Southern State
U.<br /><i>Miscellany<br /></i>Paul Austin: Norman, Oklahoma<br /><i>Looking,
Listening, Feeling</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XI. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">karla k. morton: Raton, New Mexico<br /><i>Politics
of the Minotaur<br /></i>Marc DiPaolo: SWOSU<br /><i>He
Saved My Life, He Save My Bongo</i><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XII. 10:00 – 10:50 Regents Room</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ron Wallace: Durant, Oklahoma<br /><i>Winter
Descending<br /></i>Josh Grasso: East Central
University<br /><i>Psychics
Always Cheat</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XIII. 11:00 – 12:10 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chris Murphy: Northeastern State
University<br /><i>The
Soviet Bloc: Studies in Genre<br /></i>Linda Neal Reising: Poseyville,
Indiana<br /><i>Stone
Roses: Voices of Oklahoma Women Pioneers<br /></i>Tom Murphy: Corpus Christi, Texas<br /><i>Where
Does Love Go & other poems</i><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XIV. 11:00 – 12:10 Regents Room</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul Juhasz: Seminole State College<br /><i>The
Inner Life of Comics<br /></i>Sally Rhoades: Albany, New York<br /><i>Beginnings<br /></i>Don Stinson: Northern Oklahoma College<br /><i>Dark Rooms in Silent Houses</i><i><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*** Lunch ***</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XV. 2:15 – 3:35 Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sharon Edge Martin: Oilton,
Oklahoma<br /><i>Turning
Life Experiences into Fiction<br /></i>Roy Beckemeyer: Wichita, Kansas<br /><i>The
Currency of His Light<br /></i>Steven Pedersen: East Central
University<br /><i>Dog
Days</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVI. 2:15 -3:35<span style="color: red;"> </span>Regents
Room <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Woodstok Farley: Tarleton State
University<br /><i>The
Glass Factory Menagerie<br /></i>Lyman Grant: Harrisonburg, Virginia<br /><i>Symptom
and Desire<br /></i>Bill Hagen: Shawnee, Oklahoma<br /><i>Others
and Upsets</i><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVII.
7:00 – 8:30 pm Estep Auditorium </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Featuring: Allison Amend</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recognition of Undergraduate
Writers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Reception for Authors, Guests
& Students: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ross-Osborn Family Foundation Event
Center)<b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Saturday, April 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>XVIII. 9:00 – 10:10 Estep Auditorium</b></span><b><br /></b>Wendy Dunmeyer: Lawton, Oklahoma<br /><i>My
Grandmother’s Last Letter<br /></i>Markham Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Summer's
Discordant Joy<br /></i>John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Emanations
of Angels: Dreams That Never Say Enough</i><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>XIX. 9:00 – 10:10 Regents Room</b></span><b><br /></b>Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas<br /><i>Selected
Love Letters<br /></i>Rilla Askew: University of Oklahoma<br /><i>Two
of Her<br /></i>Robert Wynne: Burleson, Texas<br /><i>Recent
Poems</i><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>XX. 10:25 -11:35 Estep Auditorium</b></span><b><br /></b>Alan Berecka: Sinton, Texas<br /><i>Selected
Poems<br /></i>Chloe Lafevers: Tishomingo,
Oklahoma<br /><i>Peak,
and other poems<br /></i>Aaron Glover: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>Caftan
Season & Other Considerations</i><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>XXI. 10:25 -11:35 Regents Room</b></span><b><br /></b>Nathan Brown: Wimberly, Texas<br /><i>Saved
by the Fire: Pandemic Poems Project<br /></i>Ky George: Gallup, New Mexico<br /><i>Oil
and Water<br /></i>Zhenya Yevtushenko: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>A
Country Yet to Be</i><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XXII. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Grand Finale, Featuring:<br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Octavio Quintanilla</span></b><i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher<b><br /></b>State High School Contest Winners</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-30361196356157748632023-03-09T14:40:00.001-06:002023-03-20T13:54:35.197-05:002023 Scissortail Biographies<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Rilla Askew</span></b><span> is the author of
five novels, a book of stories, and a collection of creative
nonfiction. </span><span>She’s a PEN/Faulkner finalist and recipient of
the American Book Award and the Arts and Letters Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. </span><span>Her essays and short stories have appeared
in <i>AGNI, Tin House</i>, <i>World Literature</i> <i>Today,</i></span><i><span> Nimrod</span></i><span>, <i>Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards,</i></span><i><span> </span></i><span>and elsewhere. Askew’s most recent
novel, <i>Prize for the Fire, </i>is about Early Modern English writer
Anne Askew, who was burned as a heretic in 1546.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Paul
Austin’s</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> book <i>Spontaneous Behavior, the Art and Craft of Acting</i>, was
published by Turning Plow Press, in October, 2022. his collection of poetry <i>Notes on Hard Times</i> was published by
Village Books Press. His work has appeared in such publications as <em>This
Land, Sugar Mule, Oklahoma Review, More Monologues by Men,</em> and <em>Newport
Review. </em>His poems have also been included in <em>Speak Your Mind, </em>the
2019 anthology of Woody Guthrie Poets,<em> Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush, </em>an
anthology of Oklahoma poetry, <em>Behind the mask: Haiku in the Time of Covid</em>-19,
<em>Jerry Jazz Musician, </em>and <em>LEVEL Land: poems for and about the I-35
corridor. Late Night Conspiracies</em>, a collection of his writings was
performed with jazz ensemble at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Roy J. Beckemeyer’s</span></b><span> fifth book of poetry, <i>The Currency of His Light</i>, has been
accepted for publication </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">by
Turning Plow Press for 2023. His 4th book, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Mouth
Brimming Over</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (2019) was published by Blue Cedar Press. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Stage Whispers</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (2018, Meadowlark) won
the 2019 Nelson Poetry Book Award. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Amanuensis </i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Angel</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (2018, Spartan Press) contains
ekphrastic poems inspired by artists’ depictions of angels. <i>Music I</i> <i>Once Could Dance To</i> (2014, Coal City) was a 2015 Kansas Notable
Book. Beckemeyer’s work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net
Awards, and has won Best Small Fiction. He has designed and built airplanes,
discovered and named fossils of Palaeozoic insect species, and has traveled the
world. Beckemeyer lives with and for his wife of 60 years, Pat, in Wichita,
Kansas. His Authors Page is at </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">royjbeckemeyer.com.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Alan
Berecka –</span></b><span> Since he
was in Ada last, has had a damn good year. His most recent book <i>A Living is not</i> <i>a Life: A Working Title</i> was named a finalist in the Hofer Award. He’s
had several poems posted on the <i>Texas
Poetry Assignment</i> and snuck into their print anthology. He was published in
the <i>Windward </i>and <i>Langdon Review,</i> and read at the Poezijos<b> </b>pavasaris, the Lithuanian
Writers Unions Spring Festival held in Vilnius and other cities and towns
around Lithuania. But the greatest thing to happen in the last year is that he
retired from working as an academic librarian.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Alan Birkelbach</span></b><span>, a Texas native, is the 2005 Texas
Poet Laureate. He is a member of the<b> </b>Texas
Institute of Letters, Western Writers of America, National Park Foundation, and
The Academy of American Poets. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He is a
Spur Award Winner, two-time international Indie Book Award Finalist, winner of
North Texas Book Festival Award, Pushcart Prize Nominee, editor for several
editions of the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate Series, winner of the Pat
Stodghill Book Publication Award and winner of the Edwin M. Eakin Memorial Book
Publication Award</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">. </span></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">His twelfth book is </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The National Parks: A Century of Grace</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, with fellow Texas Poet
Laureate karla k. morton. is due out from TCU Press in November of 2020. They visited all 62 National Parks, wrote
poetry and took photos, with a percentage of the sales from the forthcoming book
going back to the Parks System. This is
to help culturally preserve our greatest treasures – our National Parks for the
next 100 years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Joey Brown</span></b><span> is a poet and a fiction writer.
She has authored two poetry collections: <i>The Feral Love</i> <i>Poems </i>(Hungry
Buzzard Press) and <i>Oklahomaography </i>(Mongrel
Empire Press). Her poems and prose have appeared in <i>The Red Earth Review, Plainsong, Concho River Review, The Langdon
Review of the</i> <i>Arts in Texas, Tulsa
Review, Oklahoma Review, The San Pedro River Review</i>, and other journals.
She has recently completed two new manuscripts – a book length narrative poem
set in early-80s oil bust Oklahoma and a mystery novel – for which she is
seeking publishers. She frequently performs her poetry at festivals and writing
conferences around the Midwest and sometimes beyond. Joey now lives in
southwest Missouri with her husband, the novelist Michael Howarth, and spends
her free time making amateur art, watching British tv shows, and dreaming about
retiring from her day job.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Nathan Brown</span></b><span> is an author,
songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD
in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where he’s taught for
over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013/14,
and now travels fulltime performing readings, concerts, workshops and speaking
on creativity, poetry, and songwriting. </span><span>Nathan has published 25 books. Most recent
is his new collection of poems, <i>In the
Days of Our Resilience,</i> </span>the fourth in a series now known as the
Pandemic Poems Project, a collection of commissioned poems that deal with the
days of the pandemic, and a new travel memoir <i>Just
Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. Karma Crisis: New and
Selected Poems, </i>was a finalist for the <i>Paterson Poetry Prize</i> and the<i>> Oklahoma Book Award</i>. His earlier
book, <i>Two Tables Over</i>, won
the<i> Oklahoma Book Award</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Corbett Buchly’s</span></b><span> poems have appeared in 17
journals, including <i>SLAB, Rio Grande
Review, North</i> <i>Dakota Quarterly</i>, and <i>Barrow Street</i>. He is an alumnus of
Texas Christian University and the professional writing program at the
University of Southern California. He currently resides in Northeast Texas with
his wife and two children. You can find him online at </span><a href="http://buchly.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">buchly.com</span></a><span>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Tina Carlson</span></b><span> is a NM poet. She has published
two previous collections of poems: <i>Ground,
Wind, This</i> </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Body</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (UNM Press, 2017) and, in collaboration
with two other NM poets, <i>We Are Meant To
Carry Water</i> (3: A Taos Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 NM/AZ Poetry
Anthology prize. Her third collection,<i> A</i>
<i>Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery</i> is forthcoming
in fall 2023 from UNM Press. She won second place in <i>Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts</i> 2020 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>In her former life as a professor of medieval
and early modern English literature and creative writing, <b>Julie Chappell</b> published</span><span style="color: #333333;"> six books of scholarship; a collection of
her original poetry, </span><i><span>Faultlines </span></i><span>(Village
Books Press, 2013); and other writings. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a
number of anthologies and journals including <i>Cybersoleil: A Literary
Journal; Malpaïs Review</i>;<i> Voices de la Luna; Concho River Review</i>; <i>Stone
Renga</i>; <i>Speak Your Mind: Woody Guthrie Poets Celebrate Freedom of
Speech 2019</i>; and <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush (The Poetry of
Oklahoma)</i>. She has also read her work widely in a variety of venues from
California to Virginia and places in between. In 1994, she was the Grand Slam
Poetry prize winner in Lawrence, Kansas. Since retiring in 2018, she has
published two more collections of poetry, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> (Lamar
University Literary Press, 2019) and <i>As I Pirouette Away</i> (Turning
Plow Press, 2021). Her second collection, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> was
nominated for the Paterson Prize in 2020. She also has two collections of
original short stories, <i>Homecoming and Other Mythic Tales</i> (Fine
Dog Press, 2021) and <i>Contrary Qualities of Elements</i> (Fine Dog
Press, 2023).</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marc DiPaolo</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span>is
an Associate Professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and
Secretary for the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
United States. He has written the ethnic autobiography <i>Fake Italian</i> (2021),
and the nonfiction books <i>Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the
Inklings to </i><i>Game of Thrones</i> (2018), <i>Emma
Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film</i> (2007) and <i>War,
Politics, and Superheroes </i>(CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2011). He
has also edited and co-edited book collections of essays about film directors
Ozu and Mike Leigh, and on religion in American culture. He has been
interviewed on NPR, BBC4, and in the documentaries <i>Geek and You Shall
Find</i> (2019) and <i>Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics</i> (s1e4,
2017).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Richard Dixon</span></b><span> is a retired high-school Special
Education teacher and tennis coach. His poems and essays have been published in
literary journals, and he has been a featured reader many times. 2017 saw the
publication of an extended chapbook, <i>Leaving
Home.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Wendy Dunmeyer</span></b><span> loves poetry, wildflowers, and
watercolor painting. Her poetry has been selected as a finalist for the Morton
Marr Poetry Prize; received honorable mention in NDSU’s Poetry of the Plains
and Prairies Chapbook Contest; and has been published in <i>Measure</i>, <i>Natural Bridge</i>, <i>The
Oklahoma Review</i>,<i> </i>and elsewhere. Her full-length collection, <i>My
Grandmother’s Last Letter</i>, is forthcoming from Lamar University Literary
Press. To encourage future generations of poetry lovers and young poets, she
has taught poetry classes for children at her local library and volunteered as
a visiting writer for National Poetry Month at local elementary schools.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Woodstok Farley</span></b><span> is a former beach bum from South
Florida living on the edge of West Texas. Now instead of waves, reefs, and
cypress-filled swamps, he lives on land full of mesquite, cactus, and a
longhorn named Tip. He also shares the land with his beautiful bride of 40+
years, a dog named Tallahassee, and a cat who comes when you whistle. Woodstok
says he’s been writing all his life; it’s just that he used to do it with a
paintbrush and a canvas. Telling crazy stories of beaches, swamps, and life on
the road, his friends said he should write this stuff down. So he did. The
result was his first collection entitled <i>As the Wave Rose: Florida Tales and
Other Wandering Stories, </i>published by Fine Dog Press. His second
collection, also by Fine Dog Press, tells of his wanderings among the hills of
Oklahoma entitled, <i>The Water Stop Saloon: More Wandering Tales. </i>Currently,
Woodstok is working on a noir novel set in his hometown entitled <i>Murder at
the Pennsylvania Hotel.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Alan Gann</span></b><span> facilitates after-school
programming and writing workshops for under-served youth for which he wrote
DaVerse Works, a performance poetry curriculum. Multiple Pushcart and
Best-of-the-Net nominee, Alan is the author of three volumes of poetry: <i>Better Ways to See</i> (Assure Press), <i>That’s Entertainment </i>(Lamar University
Literary Press), and <i>Adventures of the
Clumsy Juggler</i> (Ink Brush Press). His nonexistent spare time is spent bird
watching, biking and otherwise enjoying the outdoors.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Inspired equally by her upbringing on the plains
of Oklahoma and time spent exploring the high desert of New Mexico, <b>Ky George</b> uses essay, fiction, and
poetry to explore the intimate relationships between the land and its people.
Ky is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA and has had work published in <i>The
Oklahoma Review,</i> <i>Insurrection, </i>and <i>Lesbians are
Miracles</i>.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Andrew Geyer’s</span></b><span> tenth book is the composite
anthology <i>Magic, Mystery, Madness:
electric ekphrastics</i> (Angelina River Press 2022). A member of
the Texas Institute of Letters and the South Carolina Academy of Authors
Literary Hall of Fame, Geyer currently serves as English Department Chair at
the University of South Carolina Aiken and as fiction editor for <i>Concho River Review</i>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Aaron Glover’s</span></b><span> poetry has previously appeared in <i>Thimble Literary
Magazine</i>, the <i>Virginia Quarterly Review</i>, <i>Mad Swirl</i>, <i>Illya’s
Honey</i>, the <i>Red River Review</i>, and elsewhere. His chapbook <i>Bio
Logic </i>(2017) was published through INF Press. From 2011-2016, he was
on faculty in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M
University. As a performer and director, he worked throughout Texas and the
Great Plains. He holds an MFA from the University of Houston, and currently
lives in Dallas, TX.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<b>Lyman Grant</b> lives
in the Shenandoah Valley. For four and a half decades, he taught at Austin
Community College and served in various administrative roles including Dean of
Arts and Humanities. He is the editor of <i>New Growth: Contemporary Short
Fiction from Texas, Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary, </i>and<i> The
Letters of Roy Bedichek</i>. He served as book review editor of <i>The
Texas Humanist</i> and fiction editor for <i>Brazos River Review</i> and
published essays and reviews in <i>Texas Observer, Texas Books in Review,
The Langdon Review, Creative Pulse, </i>and<i> Dallas Morning News</i>.
With John Lee and Sharon Adams, he founded and edited MAN!, a quarterly
magazine devoted to men’s issues. His poems have appeared in numerous journals
and anthologies and in several volumes of poetry. In 2023, he will publish two
new books <i>Symptom and Desire: New and Selected Poems</i> and <i>Ostraca</i> (a
volume of Golden Shovel poems). He is married and the father of
three sons. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Joshua Grasso</span></b><span> is a<span class="xcontentpasted0"> Professor
of English at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, where he has been
teaching everything from Batman to Beowulf for the last 15 years. He has a PhD
in 18th century English lit from Miami University, and an MA from the
University of Tulsa. His science fiction and fantasy stories</span> have
recently appeared in <i>Cosmic Roots and</i>
<i>Eldritch Shores,</i> <i>Metaphorosis</i>, <i>Allegory</i>,
and the <i>Creepy and Tales to Terrify</i>
podcasts. His most recently published story, "Emissary," will be
featured in a benefit anthology to support victims of the Russian aggression
against Ukraine. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Bill Hagen</span></b><span> retired from Oklahoma Baptist
University in 2012, where he taught courses in Western Civilization, fiction,
film, and drama for 38 years. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He has
published articles on Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, detective fiction, silent
Westerns, film adaption, and regularly reviews for </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">World Literature
Today</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr.
Hagen has been involved in the Let’s Talk About It programs since the mid-1980s
and presently serves on the state FOLIO (Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma)
board.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Ann Howells</span></b><span> edited <i>Illya’s Honey </i>for eighteen years. She has published four
books: <i>Under a Lone</i> <i>Star</i> (Village Books Press,
2017), <i>So Long As We Speak Their
Names </i>(Kelsay Books, 2019), <i>Painting
the</i> <i>Pinwheel Sky</i> (Assure
Press, 2020), and <i>Cattlemen &
Cadillacs</i> -- as editor (Dallas Poets Community Press, 2017). Chapbooks
include<i>: Black Crow in Flight</i>,
Editor’s Choice in Main Street Rag’s 2007 competition and <i>Softly Beating Wings</i>, 2017 William D.
Barney Chapbook Competition winner (Blackbead Books). Her work appears widely
in small press and university publications including </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Plainsongs, Schuylkill Valley
Journal, Borderlands, Concho River Review, Santa Fe Literary Review,
Switchgrass</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and <i>San Pedro River Review</i>. She is a
multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now retired after working thirty years as a
hospice RN, <b>Maryann Hurtt</b> now has
the energy to explore and write. She comes from a family of storytellers and
her poetry reflects a wish for “one more story.” <i>Once Upon a Tar Creek:
Mining for Voices </i>(Turning Plow Press) came out in 2021. Recent
work has been or will soon to be published in<i> Writing in a Woman’s
Voice, Moss Piglet, Gyroscope Review, Snapdragon, Verse-Virtual, </i>and <i>Oklahoma
Humanities.</i> Her poem. ”at six weeks” received a Pushcart nomination in
2022.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Markham Johnson's</span></b><span> book of poetry, <i>Dear Dreamland</i>, was published in 2022 by
Lamar University Literary Press. Of this book, Roger Weingarten said
"Johnson weaves a midwestern web around his childhood, the 1921 Tulsa Race
Massacre, and 'an okie/ on a back porch mulling obsession/ and a half bottle of
Lone Star.' " Johnson won the Pablo Neruda Prize, and his first book, <i>Collecting the Light,</i> was
chosen for the University of Central Florida's Contemporary Poetry Series. His
chapbook, <i>Grackles,</i> <i>Redwings, Starlings,</i> was selected
for publication by Philip Levine.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Living
what could be charitably called a nomadic life, <b>Paul Juhasz</b> was born in western New Jersey, grew up just outside
New Haven, Connecticut, and has spent appreciable chunks of his life in the
plains of central Illinois, in the upper hill country of Texas, and in the
Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Most recently seduced by the spirit of the red
earth, he now lives in Oklahoma City. A graduate of the Red Earth M.F.A., his
work has appeared in several literary journals, most recently <i>Concho River
Review, Poetry Quarterly, Oklahoma Review </i>and <i>Main Street Rag. </i>He
has been serving as curator and coordinator of the Woody Guthrie Poets since
2020. His first book, <i>Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker</i>—a
mock journal covering his six-month stint in an Amazon warehouse—was published
by Fine Dog Press in 2020. His second book, <i>Ronin</i>, a collection of
(mostly) prose poems—also published by Fine Dog Press—was named a finalist for
the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award in poetry. His second collection of poetry, <i>The
Inner Life of Comics</i>, was published by Turning Plow Press in the fall of
2022.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Patrick
Kindig</span></b><span> is assistant professor of English at Tarleton State University.
He is the author of the chapbook <i>all the catholic gods</i> (Seven
Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook <i>Dry Spell</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Porkbelly Press 2016), and his poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">American Poetry Review, </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">the </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Cincinnati
Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and other
journals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Chloe LaFevers </span></b><span>is a graduate student currently
enrolled in Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth MFA program. A graduate of
East Central University, she acted as an editor for the 2022 edition of <i>Originals</i>, ECU’s annual literary
journal, in which she also had several works featured. She placed third in both
the Scissortail Festival’s 2022 Undergraduate Creative Writing Contest and East
Central University’s annual Paul Hughes Memorial Writing Award in 2022.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Sharon Edge Martin</span></b><span> has been published in <i>Alfred Hitchcock</i> <i>Mystery Magazine, Family Circle, Malpais Review, Oklahoma Today,</i> <i>Oklahoma Humanities, Outside, True West</i>,
and in three Wood Guthrie Anthologies. Her work is included in Michael Bugeja’s
<i>The Art and Craft of Poetry</i>, in <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian</i> <i>Paintbrush,</i> edited by Ron Wallace, and
in <i>Level Land</i>, edited by Craig Hill
and Todd Fuller. She writes for the <i>Oklahoma</i>
<i>Observer</i> and is the author of two
books from Village Books Press, <i>Not a</i>
<i>Prodigal</i> and <i>I’ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in a Red State</i></span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Bill McCloud</span></b><span> is an associate poetry editor for
the Right Hand Pointing literary journal and is the poetry </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">reviewer
for Vietnam Veterans of America. His poetry book, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Smell of the Light</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Balkan Press), </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">reached
#1 on </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Oklahoman’s</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> “Oklahoma
Bestsellers” list. His poems have appeared in </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Oklahoma </i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Today</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and the <i>Oklahoma English Journal</i>, are taught in classes at the University
School of Milwaukee, WI, discussed in a Creative Writing class at the
University of Tulsa, and read by cadets in an English class at the Air Force
Academy. He is a faculty member of William Bernhardt’s WriterCon, presenting
sessions on writing and publishing poetry. Bernhardt’s Balkan Press will be
publishing McCloud’s second full-length poetry book, <i>A Common Little Hurt</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, <b>David Meischen</b> is the author of <i>Anyone’s Son,</i> winner of the John A.
Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Institute
of Letters (TIL). <i>Nopalito: Stories</i>
is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. David has twice
received the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story from TIL, most recently
for “Crossing at the Light,” lead story in <i>The
Distance Between Here and</i> <i>Elsewhere:
Three Stories</i> (Storylandia, Summer 2020). His work has appeared in <i>The Common,</i> <i>Copper Nickel, The Evansville Review, Salamander, Southern Poetry Review,
The Southern</i> <i>Review, Valparaiso
Fiction Review</i>, and elsewhere. A former juror for the Kimmel Harding Nelson
center for the arts, David completed a 2018 writing residency at Jentel Arts.
Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives in Albuquerque, NM
with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
graduate of St. John's College and of the George Mason University MFA Program, <b>Gary Worth Moody</b> has worked as a forest
fire fighter, a farrier, a cowboy, and building a town for coal miners in
Siberia’s Kuzbass Region. His poems have appeared in myriad journals on both
sides of the Atlantic, and in the anthologies, <i>Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001</i> (Word Works
Press) and <i>Weaving the Terrain </i>(Dos
Gatos Press). He is the author of <i>Hazards
of Grace </i>(Red Mountain Press, 2012); <i>Occoquan
</i>(Red Mountain Press, 2015) shortlisted for the international Rubery Book
Award in poetry; and <i>The Burnings</i> (3:
A Taos Press, 2019), co-winner of the New Mexico / Arizona Book Award. He is
currently in the final assembly of a 4th manuscript with working <i>Cartography of Random Graves Antlered with
Unfamiliar Desert Bird</i>. A falconer, Gary lives in Santa Fe with the artist
and writer, Oriana Rodman, Handsome, the cinnamon Dachshund, Beauty, a grulla
hound of indeterminant genetic origin and, if health and luck hold, a
Ferruginous or Red-tail hawk this coming autumn.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>John
Graves Morris</span></b><span> has attempted to commit poems for nearly fifty
years because he can't quite escape the sneaking suspicion that someday he
might be good at that endeavor, a notion that, among other things, has kept him
from retiring. He has one published collection, <i>Noise and Stories</i>,
and an unpublished one, <i>The County Seat of Wanting So Many Things</i>,
and one of the many things he wants is to find a publisher for it. His
poems have appeared in <i>The Chariton Review, The Concho River Review,
The Red Earth Review, The Red River Review, Jelly Bucket, Big Muddy, </i>and
others. He teaches at Cameron University, which so far seen fit not to
kick him out, and lives in Lawton with Janie Lytle.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>karla k. morton</span></b><span> has fifteen books, and is
nominated for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Her <i>The National Parks: A Century of Grace</i> is historic: there’s never
been another poetry book written in-situ from each of the 62 American National
Parks to help culturally preserve and protect these sacred spaces for the next
seven generations. Morton and fellow Poet Laureate and co-writer/explorer Alan </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Birkelbach
give a percentage of their royalties from the book back to the National Parks.
Her most recent poetry book </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Politics of
the Minotaur</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> won First Place in Poetry in the Firebird Book Award, won the
Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and is short-listed for the
International Rubery Book Award. Her work has been published by such journals
as </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">American Life in Poetry, Alaska
Quarterly Review, Southword, Atlanta Review, Arkansas Review, descant, Boulevard,
Comstock Review, Lascaux Review, Grub Street</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">New Ohio Review</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. An avid conservationist, Morton is a Quixote: the
word she coined meaning a person with the seemingly impossible dream of
visiting all their country’s National Parks. She was named Texas Poet Laureate
in 2010.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Christopher Murphy</span></b><span> received his MFA from The
University of Arkansas and teaches creative writing at Northeastern State
University. He serves on the board for the Nimrod International Journal and the
Oklahoma Humanities Council. His work has been published at <i>Gulf Coast, This Land, Jellyfish Review,</i>
<i>Necessary Fiction,</i> and <i>decomP</i> among others. He has a
collection of flash fiction, <i>Burning
All the Time</i>, from Mongrel Empire Press.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Tom Murphy</span></b><span> was the
2021-2022 Corpus Christi Poet Laureate and the <i>Langdon Review</i>’s
2022 Writer-In-Residence. Murphy’s books: <i>When I Wear Bob Kaufman’s
Eyes </i>(2022) from Gnashing Teeth Publishing, <i>Snake Woman
Moon </i>(2021), <i>Pearl </i>(2020), <i>American
History </i>(2017), and co-edited <i>Stone Renga</i> (2017) with
Alan Berecka. He’s been published widely in literary journals and anthologies
such as: <i>Poetry is DEAD: An Inclusive Anthology of Deadhead Poetry</i>, <i>Boundless</i>, <i>Concho
River Review, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>MONO, Good Cop/Bad Cop Anthology, Odes and
Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast, Wine Anthology, The Great
American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, Red River Review, Switchgrass Review,
Windward Review, Corpus Christi Writers Anthologies, Voice de la Luna, WordFest
Anthology, Outrage: A Protest Anthology for Injustice in a Post 9/11 World</span></i><span> among
other publications. Recently retired from Texas A&M University-Corpus
Christi, he still works with the Barrio Writers and the People’s Poetry
Festival. Contact information, books or bookings </span><a href="mailto:tom@tommurphywriter.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">tom@tommurphywriter.com</span></a><span>, or </span></span><a href="https://tommurphywriter.com/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span>https://tommurphywriter.com</span></a> .</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Benjamin Myers</span></b><span> was the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate of
the State of Oklahoma and is the author of four books of poetry: <i>The Family Book of Martyrs </i>(Lamar
University Press, 2022), <i>Black Sunday </i>(Lamar
University Press, 2018), <i>Lapse Americana</i>
(New York Quarterly Books, 2013) and <i>Elegy
for Trains </i>(Village Books Press, 2010). His poems may be read in <i>The Yale Review, Image, Rattle,</i> <i>The Cimarron Review, Ninth Letter </i>and
many other literary journals. He has been honored with an Oklahoma Book Award
for Poetry and with a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers
Conference. Myers is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Literature at Oklahoma
Baptist University, where he teaches creative writing and English literature
and directs the great books honors program. His first book of non-fiction, <i>A Poetics of Orthodoxy</i>, was recently
published by Cascade Books.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Neal Ostman’s</span></b><span> poetry has appeared in various
journals, anthologies and e-zines, including: <i>artsDFW guide</i>; <i>Cattlemen
&amp; Cadillacs; ComradesUK.com; Electric</i> <i>Acorn, Dublin, Ireland; The Fort Worth</i> <i>Poet; Lotuseaters.net; Lllya’s Honey; New Texas 2001; Pierian Springs;
Poems Niederngasse; Poetry Pacific; Red River Review, Under the Streets and
Bridges, WordFest Anthology 2022</i>, and <i>Wired
Art </i></span></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span>from Wired Hearts</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. His poetry readings have been
well received at many venues in Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, and other cities in
his travels. Neal has taught writing and poetry seminars at the OU Short Course
on Professional Writing and Texas Writers’ Conferences, respectively. In
addition to poetry, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">his
published credits include humor and op-ed columns, and business articles. Neal
is a member of the Dallas Poets Community and The Poetry Society of Texas. He
lives in Colleyville, Texas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Steven
M. Pedersen</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">,
PhD, is a scholar in rhetoric, composition, and technical writing. His work has
appeared in <i>Rhetoric Review</i>, <i>The Journal of the Kenneth
Burke Society</i>, <i>Journal of American Studies Association of Texas</i>,
and <i>The Oklahoman</i>. He is also an aspiring poet with a manuscript in
development entitled, <i>Dog Days.</i> He
currently teaches at East Central University as an Assistant Professor in the
English and Languages Department. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Brady Peterson</span></b><span> has lived in
Belton, Texas for the past 37 years. There he taught rhetoric, built houses,
helped raise five daughters, and wrote poetry. He is the author of <i>Glued
to the Earth, Between Stations, Dust, From an Upstairs Window, </i>and <i>From
the Edge of Town. </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Keely Record</span></b><span> lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Received
an MFA from the Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City
University. She serves on the editorial board of Nimrod International
Journal. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Atlas
Poetica</i> and <i>Bamboo Hut.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Linda Neal Reising,</span></b><span> a native of Oklahoma and a member
of the Cherokee Nation, has been published in numerous journals, including <i>The Southern Indiana Review, Comstock Review</i>,
and <i>Nimrod.</i> Reising’s work has also
appeared in a number of anthologies, including <i>Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women</i> <i>Who Write</i> (Harper/Collins) and <i>And
Know This Place: Poetry of</i> <i>Indiana</i>
(Indiana Historical Society Press). She was named the winner of the 2012 <i>Writer’s Digest</i> Poetry Competition. Her
chapbook<i>, Re-Writing Family History</i>
(Finishing Line Press), was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award, as
well as winner of the 2015 Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Poetry Book Prize. In
2018, her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of <i>So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt
Vonnegut</i> <i>Museum</i> <i>&amp; Library</i>. Kelsay Books
nominated her poem “Emmaline” for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. <i>The Keeping,</i> her first full-length book
of poetry published by Finishing Line Press in 2020, won the Kops-Fetherling Phoenix
Award for Best New Voice in Poetry. Her second full-length collection, <i>Stone Roses,</i> which was published by
Kelsay Books in 2021, was finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, the </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spur
Award, and the WILLA Award. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Stone Roses</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">
won the Eric Hoffer Award and the Western </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heritage
Wrangler Book Award.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Sally Rhoades</span></b><span> was</span><span style="color: #454545; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the feature at Third Thursday this past September hosted
by Dan Wilcox. She was interviewed by Andrea Cunliffe for the <i>Hudson Mohawk</i> magazine at WOOC105.3 FM,
a Sanctuary for Independent Media. She has been featured in <i>Poetry Spoken Here</i>, a podcast directed
by interviewer/poet Charlie Rossiter. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Misfit Magazine</i>, </span><i><span>Dragon Poetry Review, 2,
Elegant Rage, a poetic tribute honoring the centennial of Woody Gutherie, the
Highwatermark Salo[o]n performance series by Stockpot flats, Up the River</span></i><span> and<i> in Peerglass, an
anthology of Hudson Valley peer groups</i>. She received her Masters of Arts in
English in 1995 at the University of Albany.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<b><span>Rob Roensch</span></b><span> is the author of the
story collection <i>The Wildflowers of
Baltimore</i> (Salt, 2012), the short novel <i>The
World and the Zoo</i> (Outpost19, 2020), and the novel <i>In the Morning, the City is the Prairie</i> (forthcoming from Belle
Point Press). He teaches at Oklahoma City University. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Molly
Sizer</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
is a retired rural sociologist living in southwest Oklahoma. She spends a lot
of time walking in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, and occasionally
writes poetry. She’s presented her words to Lawton’s Third Saturday readings,
Duncan’s Reading Down the Plains, the Woody Guthrie Poetry Readings (2018,
2022) and the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. (2019, 2022) Her work has been published in <i>Westview</i> and <i>The Oklahoma Review</i>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></p><b>Don Stinson</b> is the author of two poetry collections—<i>Flatline Horizon</i> (Mongrel Empire Press, 2018), and <i>Hunger </i>(Turning Plow Press, 2020), which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. His third book, tentatively titled <i>Dark Rooms in Silent Houses</i>, will be published in the summer of 2023 by Turning Plow Press. Individual poems have appeared in <i>Concho River Review</i>,<i> Southwestern American Literature</i>,<i> Loonfeather</i>, and other print and online publications. A graduate of Oklahoma State University’s graduate creative writing program, Stinson has taught at Northeastern State University, OSU, and Ridgewater College in Minnesota. He is retiring June 1 after 24 years at Northern Oklahoma College, where he taught on all three NOC campuses (Tonkawa, Enid, and Stillwater), and—with Brandon Hobson and Paul Bowers, co-founded the Chikaskia Literary Festival. <br />
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Denise Tolan's</span></b><span> work has been included in places
such as <i>The Best Small Fictions</i>, The Best Short Stories from <i>The
Saturday Evening Post</i>, <i>Blue Mountain Review</i>, <i>Atlas and
Alice</i>, and <i>Lunch Ticket. </i>Denise was a finalist for Best of
the Net 2022 and for the International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Prize in
Nonfiction, as well as the Diane Wood’s Memorial Award for Nonfiction. Her
memoir, <i>Italian Blood</i>, is scheduled for release with CavanKerry
Press in fall 2023.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Ron Wallace</span></b><span> is an Oklahoma native and
currently an adjunct instructor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State
University, in Durant, Oklahoma. He is the author of ten books of poetry, five
of which have been finalists in the Oklahoma Book Awards. <i>Renegade and Other Poems</i> was the 2018 winner of the Oklahoma Book
Award. Wallace has been a “Pushcart Prize” nominee and has recently been
published in <i>Oklahoma Today</i>, <i>Concho River Review, San Pedro River Review,
Borderlands</i> and a number of other magazines and journals. He also edited <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush</i>, a
collection of Oklahoma Poetry and completed his first novel, <i>A Secret Lies
in New Orleans, </i>a finalist in fiction in the 2022 Oklahoma Book Awards.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Mark Walling</span></b><span> is a professor in the department
of English at East Central University. Among many other things, he sponsors <i>Originals,</i> the ECU student journal of
creative writing, and serves as the judge for short fiction for the annual
Fisher high school contest, a state-wide contest. His short fiction has been
published in several leading journals.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Sarah Webb</span></b><span> is the former poetry editor
of <i>Crosstimbers,</i> an
interdisciplinary journal from the University of Science and Arts of
Oklahoma. Her poetry collections <i>Red
Riding Hood's Sister</i> (virtual artists collective, 2018) and <i>Black</i> (virtual artists collective,
2013) were finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award and <i>Black</i> for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. She is a
co-editor for the Zen arts magazine <i>Just
This</i> and co-leader of an ongoing writing group for Zen and
Writing. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Cullen Whisenhunt</span></b><span> is a graduate of Oklahoma City
University's Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program. His work has appeared in <i>Dragon Poet's Review, The Ekphrastic Review</i>,
and <i>The Bamboo Hut,</i> among other
journals. His debut chapbook of poetry, <i>Among
the Trees</i>, was published by Fine Dog Press in 2021, and he has a chapbook
of experimental poetry, <i>Childish Thing
and Other Experiments</i>, forthcoming from Fine Dog Press. He currently
teaches English at Eastern Oklahoma State College in McAlester, OK, where he
conducts writing workshops with the McAlester Public Library Poetry Club. He
also co-hosts (with Ron Wallace) monthly Poetry on Lost Street readings in
Durant, OK.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Robert Wynne</span></b><span> earned his MFA in Creative Writing
from Antioch University. A former co-editor of <i>Cider Press Review,</i> he has published 6 chapbooks, and 3 full-length
books of poetry, the most recent being <i>Self-Portrait
as Odysseus</i>, published in 2011 by Tebot Bach Press. He’s won numerous
prizes, and his poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies throughout
North America. He lives in Burleson, TX with his wife and a lively German
Shepherd. His online home is </span><a href="http://www.rwynne.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">www.rwynne.com</span></a><span>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>Zhenya Yevtushenko</span></b><span> is one of the sons of Maria and
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Zhenya likes to claim that he is pursuing his
undergraduate degrees in English, Political Science, and History whenever he
isn't going on walks with his little dog. His works and translations
have appeared in <i>Suburban Witchcraft</i> <i>Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, The Tulsa
Review</i>, and <i>The Guardian.</i> He
owes his inspiration to his mother, his brothers, and to the love of his life,
Olivia.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>John M. Yozzo</span></b><span> is a retired professor of English
and a retired farmhand, residing in Tulsa OK.
A native of Ponca City OK he is sprung from a large Catholic family, is
a proud product of strict parochial schools, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and
holds 3 degrees from the University of Tulsa. Yozzo taught at TU, the
University of Alabama in </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Birmingham and at
East Central U in Ada OK a total of 34 years. Yozzo has published in </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Concho
River Review, Arcadia, </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Malpais, </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">as well as </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Ain’t Gonna Be
Treated</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">This Way</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Oklahoma Poems and Their Poets.</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Yozzo
has published two collections of poems with Village Books Press, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Only
Wonder</i><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(2017) and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Echoes and Omens</i><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(2019). He has, after 50 years of writing,
manuscripts for many more.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-32667060901732508562023-03-09T14:39:00.002-06:002023-03-21T12:24:27.667-05:00Winners of the 19th Annual Daryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest<p><b>Poetry Winners:</b></p><p><b>First Place:</b> Elaine Gao, “The Sunken Cathedral.” Jenks (Instructor: Emily Stewart)<br /><b>Second Place:</b> Ava Blakley, “Apocalypse.” Edmond Santa Fe (Valerie Roberson)<br /><b>Third Place:</b> Ainsley Nidiffer, “Al Balad.” Claremore (Mrs. Andrews)</p><p><b>Honorable Mentions:<br /></b>Elissa Marks, “Myself Through a Prism.” Edmond Memorial (Kelly Bristow)<br />Abigail Harmon, “(Double) Standard of Education.” Edmond Memorial (Kelly Bristow)<br />Nora Garrison, “Among the Silt.” Edmond Memorial (Kelly Bristow)<br />Liberty Rogers, “Everything Changed.” Dale (Allison Robinson)<br />Kaylee Irvin, “Inner Monologue of a Pencil.” McAlester (Rachel Morris)<br />Preseley Boschert, “Austin, Texas, July 10.” Owasso (Sherry Beeson)<br />Izzy Lewis, “Holding Up Half the Sky.” Dewey (Deborah Thoreson)<br />Ingeyla Ghori, “My Caged Bird.” Bartlesville (Anna Garrett)<br />Emilia Chambers, “It Is What It Was.” Bishop Mcguinness Catholic (Kathy Judge)<br />Emily Spotts, “Elegy for a Best Friend.” Life Ready Center (Maureen Durant)</p><p><b>Fiction Winners:</b></p><b>First Place: </b>Elissa Marks, “The Re-education of Quentin Whatever.” Edmond Memorial (Instructor: Kelly Bristow)<br /><b>Second Place:</b> Helena Todd, “Starboy 2.” Shawnee (Cathy Megee)<br /><b>Third Place: </b>Aubrey Whiteside, “Spanish Carmine.” Ada (Preston Mann)<br /><br /><b>Honorable Mentions:</b><br />Maddie Dilley. “Lost in a Long-Forgotten Nightmare.” Harding Fine Arts Academy (Carly Heitland)<br />Ian Doering. “The Burning Irony.” Edmond Memorial (Kelly Bristow)<br />Maggie Gower. “Tribulation.” Bristow (Kyle Zapata)<br />Gracie Kinnaman. “Library in the Dunes.” Cascia Hall, Tulsa (Melissa Halve)<br />Brynn Peterson. “Inflorescence.” Lawton (Christina Bausch)<br />Sade Proper. “A Second Chance.” Carl Albert (Brooke Beasley)<br />Liberty Rogers. “The Fearful and the Fearless.” Dale (Allison Robinson)<br />Harini Senthil. “Dollhouse.” Jenks (Rachel Games)<br />Asbah Talal. “A Winter’s Night.” Edmond North (Shannon Coffee)<br />Patience Williams. “A Dark Night in Orio.” Ada (Preston Mann)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-42155770657815680002022-12-09T10:47:00.000-06:002022-12-09T10:47:24.528-06:002023 Undergraduate Creative Writing ContestPrizes: * 1st - $100 * 2nd - $75 * 3rd - $50 <br />(Plus Books & Honorable Mentions) <br /><br /><b>Guidelines</b>:<br /><br />· Contest is open only to currently enrolled undergraduate students. <br /><br />· Eligible students are expected to attend the Festival. Recognition will occur Friday evening, April 7, 2023. (Please do not submit if you cannot attend the festival). <br /><br />· Submissions must be confirmed by a sponsoring faculty member. <br /><br />· Each institution is allowed a maximum of 5 (five entries); This includes ECU. <br /><br />· Each institution is responsible for selecting its contestants <br /><br />· Submissions are limited to one of three categories: 1) one piece of short fiction (up to 7500 words), or one piece of creative nonfiction (up to 7500 words), or up to three poems (150 lines total). <br /><br />· Prizes will not be designated by genre, but will be awarded for best writing. <br /><br />· All entries must be the original work of the student. <br /><br />· All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space prose entries. <br /><br />· Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals. <br /><br />· No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title. <br /><br />· Provide separate Cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s Name; 2) Student’s email address AND mailing address 3) Faculty Member’s Name & Email address 3) Institution 4) Classification 5) Phone number 6) Title of original work submitted <br /><br />· Submit work by email to Dr. Jennifer Dorsey at <a href="mailto:jdorsey@ecok.edu">jdorsey@ecok.edu</a>. In the subject line of your email submission, type “Scissortail Undergraduate Contest.” <br /><br />· Professor Dorsey will screen entries, then an outside judge will judge all entries that meet minimum guidelines. <br /><br /><br /><b>DEADLINE:</b> Email entries to <a href="mailto:jdorsey@ecok.edu">jdorsey@ecok.edu</a> must be received by <b><span style="color: red;">Midnight February 19, 2023</span></b>. There will be no exceptions. Recognition of writers will occur Friday April 7 as part of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival held at East Central University (April 6 - 8, 2023). Please visit (and subscribe via email) <a href="http://www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/">www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com</a> to receive festival updates. Contact: Ken Hada, <a href="mailto:khada@ecok.edu">khada@ecok.edu</a> (580) 559-5557 for information regarding the Festival <br /><br /><br /><b>Judge:</b> Dr. Andrew Geyer, whose tenth book is the composite anthology <i>Magic, Mystery, Madness: electric ekphrastics</i> (Angelina River Press 2022). A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the South Carolina Academy of Authors Literary Hall of Fame, Geyer currently serves as English Department Chair at the University of South Carolina Aiken and as fiction editor for <i>Concho River Review</i>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-86239744626004342212022-05-26T09:38:00.001-05:002022-09-06T17:39:54.525-05:0018th Annual Scissortail: Featured Authors<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXW7-gK8LV3QWm_Z7n8-4E_4VkIoBBw1it0-HBZruimwYs0nmnpGBsE9ny48tmsrSmyJF6gbVS_1dRenK2dOLGqVbYrPkKDc2F--aCVksEPYxuAYCxExUxg-sW46W8WAcNpojFO0Z01nDHZ2Me9yQ5fnrzuKmDlcDQMxj7QxF9hYxHN7yJMVsqGadP7w/s6000/Allison.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXW7-gK8LV3QWm_Z7n8-4E_4VkIoBBw1it0-HBZruimwYs0nmnpGBsE9ny48tmsrSmyJF6gbVS_1dRenK2dOLGqVbYrPkKDc2F--aCVksEPYxuAYCxExUxg-sW46W8WAcNpojFO0Z01nDHZ2Me9yQ5fnrzuKmDlcDQMxj7QxF9hYxHN7yJMVsqGadP7w/w267-h400/Allison.jpg" width="267" /></a><b>ALLISON AMEND</b> was born in Chicago, Illinois, on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. In high school, Allison lived for a year with a Spanish family in Barcelona. She attended Stanford University, graduating with honors in Comparative Literature. After college, she lived in Lyon, France on a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship. Allison then attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, receiving a Maytag and a Teaching/Writing Fellowship.</div><br />Allison’s debut short story collection, <i>Things That Pass for Love </i>(OV/Dzanc Books, 2008) won a bronze Independent Publisher’s award. <i>Stations West</i>, a historical novel, was published by Louisiana State University Press as part of its Yellow Shoe Fiction series in March 2010 and was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. <br /><br /> Nan A. Talese/Doubleday published her most recent novels <i>A Nearly Perfect Copy</i> and <i>Enchanted Islands</i>. <br /><br />Allison lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College in the Bronx and at the <a href="http://www.okcu.edu/english/redearthmfa/">Red Earth MFA</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJn-xLwKjTAwJHxBpStksJ5JDm0KT23vsoNrYhY73D1iZSbVUsL5zepEa-mdmecYsCokBxmim1LXNPteolOg0tCUyRDpyoTBl7HBwraFsG51fMsMrFCpXZZ5R-rqs4wyztV5MfeKyY3zo0xkxjGgPggIeg0Z5c4w_UwpIcYgwJJNWRUd7sVL717GzpkQ/s3000/Major%20Jackson%202.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJn-xLwKjTAwJHxBpStksJ5JDm0KT23vsoNrYhY73D1iZSbVUsL5zepEa-mdmecYsCokBxmim1LXNPteolOg0tCUyRDpyoTBl7HBwraFsG51fMsMrFCpXZZ5R-rqs4wyztV5MfeKyY3zo0xkxjGgPggIeg0Z5c4w_UwpIcYgwJJNWRUd7sVL717GzpkQ/w320-h400/Major%20Jackson%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo copyright by Erin Patrice O'Brien</td></tr></tbody></table><b>MAJOR JACKSON</b> is the author of five books of poetry, including <a href="https://www.wwnorton.com/books/9781324004554"><i>The Absurd Man </i></a>(2020), <i>Roll Deep</i> (2015), <i>Holding Company</i> (2010), <i>Hoops </i>(2006) and <i>Leaving Saturn</i> (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Best-American-Poetry-2019/David-Lehman/9781982106560"><i>Best American Poetry 2019</i></a>, <a href="https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=16&CATID=17&SINGLESTORE=true"><i>Renga for Obama</i></a>, and Library of America’s <i>Countee Cullen: Collected Poems</i>.<br /><br />A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. <br /><br />He has published poems and essays in <i>American Poetry Review</i>, <i>The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry London</i>, and <i>Zyzzva</i>. <br /><br />Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as the Poetry Editor of <i>The Harvard Review.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJH0aN4lE7_K8Itpp1ITaHTzvN2onh52Oqx-R9dkQ1OOJCHqt_KK0IdiDVorze_am9pRo84sH3g2BzkGEQHWlxgcOwQboTM-80gxNc4tDc9HJUDQMvyMC8zWjfa0G0bHT5IMjBihWpgo1isQpGhMMy876pkjDxskH54j-4NGWvcvlczXuL8d0ytDLeA/s508/Quintanilla.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="507" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvJH0aN4lE7_K8Itpp1ITaHTzvN2onh52Oqx-R9dkQ1OOJCHqt_KK0IdiDVorze_am9pRo84sH3g2BzkGEQHWlxgcOwQboTM-80gxNc4tDc9HJUDQMvyMC8zWjfa0G0bHT5IMjBihWpgo1isQpGhMMy876pkjDxskH54j-4NGWvcvlczXuL8d0ytDLeA/s320/Quintanilla.JPG" width="319" /></a></div>OCTAVIO QUINTANILLA</b> is the author of the poetry collection,<i> If I Go Missing</i> (Slough Press, 2014) and served as the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His poetry, fiction, translations, and photography have appeared, or are forthcoming, in journals such as <i>The Southampton Review, Salamander, RHINO, Alaska Quarterly Review, Pilgrimage, Green Mountains Review, Southwestern American Literature, The Texas Observer</i>, and <i>Existere: A Journal of Art & Literature</i>. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published in <i>Poetry Northwest, Texas Review Press, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Midway Journal, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas</i>, and elsewhere. <br /><br />Octavio’s visual work has been exhibited in numerous art spaces, including, Southwest School of Art, Presa House Gallery, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, and Equinox Gallery. He is the recipient of the Nebrija Creadores Scholarship, consisting of a month-long residency at the Instituto Franklin at Alcalá University in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and is the regional editor for <i>Texas Books in Review</i>. Octavio teaches Literature and Creative Writing in the M.A./M.F.A. program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. <br /><br />Website: <a href="http://octavioquintanilla.com/">octavioquintanilla.com</a> <br /><br />IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-6864742351102699342022-03-21T17:32:00.002-05:002022-03-21T17:32:51.181-05:00From the Director – Welcome 2022<p>It is with great anticipation that I welcome you back to
a live, in-person festival! We need to gather together to inspire and to be
inspired. This year, we welcome 74 authors to the program, the most ever. Of
that number, 15 are new to the festival.</p><p>Scissortail Festival has been described in various ways
over the years. One of my favorite descriptions is that Scissortail is a
“listening” festival. That is, we come together and listen to each other. As
you are all-too aware, we are under siege all day long, every day of the week,
by a barrage of distractions and interruptions, all designed to reduce us to
thoughtless automatons. This festival offers a chance to free our mind and
souls from that onslaught, and to hear one another. I know I look forward to
hearing as many of you as possible; and more, I look forward to hearing about
how each of you hear each other.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">On behalf of so many gracious volunteers, outside of ECU,
and of many members of the Department of English & Languages, and
volunteers from the Department of Art, Media and Communication, student
volunteers, and the administration of East Central University – Welcome!</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
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State College<br /><i>Among the Trees</i><br />Jordan Mackey: Duncan, Oklahoma<br /><i>No Longer Nameless</i><br />Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas<br /><i>At the Edge of Town</i><br />Lyman Grant: Harrisonburg, Virginia<br /><i>Found Poems and Weather Reports</i><br /><br /><b>VI. 2:15 – 3:45 Regents Room</b></div><div><br />Gary Worth Moody: Santa Fe, New Mexico<br /><i>Wild Horses</i><br />Yvonne Carpenter: Arapaho, Oklahoma<br /><i>Worm Moon</i>, and other poems<br />Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue: Fort Worth, TX<br /><i>What I Did Not Tell You</i><br />Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>What I've Seen</i><br /><br /><b>VII. 2:15 – 3:45 North Lounge</b><div><br />Paul Bowers: Northern Oklahoma College<br />from <i>Ten Acres of the Universe</i><br />Ann Weisman: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Elementals</i><br />Alan Gann: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>Better Ways to See</i><br />Ky George: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<br /><i>Communion</i>, and other poems <br /><br /><b>VIII. 4:00 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Tom Murphy: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi<br /><i>Pleiades</i>, and other poems<br />Joan Canby: Garland, Texas<br />Selected poems<br /><br /><b>IX. 4:00 – 4:45 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Alan Berecka: Del Mar College <br /><i>Regret of First Memories</i>, and other poems <br />Bertha Wise: Oklahoma City, OK <br /><i>First Truth</i>, and other poems <br /><br /><b>X. 7:00 – 8:30 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Featuring: Lou Berney <br />(Authors’ Reception – Polo’s Restaurant)</div><div><br /><br /><b>Friday, April 1</b><br /><br /><b>XI. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Jessica Isaacs: Seminole State College<br /><i>The Deer in the Corn</i><br />Neal Ostman: Colleyville, Texas<br /><i>Earthman - Boondocking </i><br /><br /><b>XII. 9:00 - 9:50 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Markham Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma<br /><i>Dear Dreamland</i>, and other poems<br />Sally Rhoades: Albany, New York<br /><i>Greeted by Wildflowers </i><br /><br /><b>XIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Maureen DuRant: Lawton, Oklahoma<br /><i>I Knew Better, but Nevertheless</i><br />Mark Allen Jenkins: Houston, Texas<br /><i>Zanesville & Western</i><br /><br /><b>XIV. 10:00 – 10:50 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Chris Ellery: San Angelo, Texas<br /><i>Nine Nights in Pieria</i><br />Amy (Huichun) Liang: University of Missouri<br /><i>Autumn, Presencing</i> – a bilingual poetry reading <br /><br /><b>XV. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge </b><br /><br />Shaun Perkins: Locust Grove, Oklahoma<br /><i>Schooled</i><br />John Morris: Cameron University<br /><i>The Strongest Song</i>, and other poems <br /><br /><b>XVI. 11:00 – 12:15 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Heather Levy: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<br />from <i>Walking Through Needles</i><br />Haesong Kwon: Louisville, Kentucky<br />New and Selected poems<br />Vivian Nida/Terri Cummings: Oklahoma City<br /><i>Two Voice Poems </i><br /><br /><b>XVII. 11:00 – 12:15 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Sarah Webb: Burnet, Texas<br /><i>The Door Into Night</i><br />Walter Bargen: Ashland, Missouri<br /><i>Transcendental Goat Philosophy/You Wounded Miracle</i><br />Daniel Marroquin: Killeen, Texas<br /><i>Coach and Camilla </i><br /><br /><b>XVIII. 11:00 -12:15 North Lounge </b><br /><br />Bill McCloud: Rogers State University<br /><i>A Charming Little Hurt</i><br />Carol Coffee Reposa: San Antonio, Texas<br /><i>To Berlin and Back: A Covid-19 Long Shot</i><br />Phil Morgan: Blanchard, Oklahoma<br /><i>Where the Winter is Purple and Gray <br /></i><br />*** Lunch ***<br /><br /><b>XIX. 2:15 – 3:45 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Robert L. Dean, Jr: Augusta, Kansas<br /><i>Pulp and After-Pulp</i><br />Sharon Martin: Oilton, Oklahoma<br /><i>The Courage to Speak</i><br />Marc DiPaolo: Southwestern Oklahoma State U.<br />from <i>Fake Italian</i><br />Richard Dixon: Oklahoma City, OK<br /><i>Paul Simon Blows Away the Room </i><br /><br /><b>XX. 2:15 -3:45 Regents Room</b><br /><br />Hank Jones: Tarleton State University<br /><i>After Waking in Darkness</i><br />Abigale Mazzo: University of Tulsa<br /><i>The Affair</i><br />Todd Fuller: University of Oklahoma<br /><i>64 Steps of Doom</i><br />Christopher Soden: Dallas, Texas<br /><i>Bones to Light</i><br /><br /><b>XXI. 7:00 – 8:30 pm Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Featuring: Arthur Sze <br /><br />Recognition of Undergraduate Writers<br />(Reception for Authors, Guests & Students: <br />Ross-Osborn Family Foundation Event Center) <br /><br /><b>Saturday, April 2 </b><br /><br /><b>XXII. 9:00 – 10:15 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Rob Roensch: Oklahoma City University<br /><i>Unalaska</i><br />Mary Gray: Oklahoma City, OK<br /><i>Who Do You Think You Are?</i><br />Paul Juhasz: Seminole State College<br />from <i>Ronin </i><br /><br /><b>XXIII. 9:00 – 10:15 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Michael Dooley: Tarleton State University<br /><i>Go West, Young Longhair, Go West</i><br />Ann Howells: Dallas, Texas<br />from <i>So Long as We Speak Their Names</i><br />Paul Austin: Norman, Oklahoma<br /><i>This is Me </i><br /><br /><b>XXIV. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br />Michael Howarth: Missouri Southern State Univ<br /><i>A Still and Awful Red</i><br />Julie Chappell: Cleveland, Oklahoma<br /><i>Contrary Qualities of Elements</i><br />Dorothy Alexander: Santa Fe, New Mexico<br /><i>The Art of Memory: Field Notes of an Octogenarian </i><br /><br /><b>XXV. 10:30 -11:45 Regents Room </b><br /><br />Andrew Geyer: USC - Aiken<br /><i>A Walk Beyond the Moon</i><br />Maryann Hurtt: Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin<br /><i>Of Peonies and Murderous Doings</i><br />Ben Myers: Oklahoma Baptist University<br /><i>Ambition </i><br /><br /><b>XXVI. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium </b><br /><br /><b>Grand Finale, Featuring:<br />Jennifer Givhan </b><br /><br />Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher<br />State High School Contest Winners<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Click <a href="https://ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-scissortail-biographies.html">here</a> and <a href="https://ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/2021/11/17th-annual-scissortail-feature-authors.html">here </a>for Bios of all Authors.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-81657439997684390862022-03-12T11:00:00.000-06:002022-03-12T11:00:51.317-06:0017th Annual Scissortail: The Poster<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_9w001y2sLI/YPgyqQOuMeI/AAAAAAAAMmM/N3o6LVFOQn8qJmO6EYm49gFzHblAWIWegCLcBGAsYHQ/s842/Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="595" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_9w001y2sLI/YPgyqQOuMeI/AAAAAAAAMmM/N3o6LVFOQn8qJmO6EYm49gFzHblAWIWegCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Poster.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-77641332059884548482022-03-12T10:45:00.002-06:002022-03-13T17:37:43.068-05:00Winners of the 18th Annual Daryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest<div><p class="xmsonormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b>Poetry Winners: </b><br /><br /><b>First Place: </b> Vivianna “Morphie” Pflaum, “Life Letters.” Edmond Memorial High School (Ms. Kelly Bristow)<br /><b>Second Place:</b> Lenna Abouzahr, “Sand Thoughts.” Stillwater High School (Jennifer White)<br /><b>Third Place:</b> Emily Spotts, “Uncastled.” Lawton High School (Dr. Terence Freeman) <br /><br /><b>Honorable Mentions:</b><br />Katrina Snyder, “Jobless.” Mount Saint Mary’s High School (Ms. Strah)<br />Billie Parker, “The Lazy Man.” Lawton High School (Dr. Terence Freeman)<br />Brayden Johnson, “The Modern Child Slave.” Lawton High School (Dr. Terence Freeman) <br />Jacy Pruitt, “Failure.” Edmond Memorial High School (Ms. Kelly Bristow)<br />Rachel Van Osdol, “Dolls Aren’t Puppets.” Edmond Memorial High School (Ms. Kelly Bristow)<br />Elaine Gao, “The Interrupted Serenade.” Jenks High School (Mrs. Lindsey Taylor)<br />Krisinda Sevenstar, “Her Smile, Her Heart.” Leedey High School (Morgan Lady)<br />Katelynn Robertson, “Dreaming.” Bixby High School (Jennifer Phenicie)<br />Yunsu Kim, “After the Fall of Eden.” Norman High School (Sara Doolittle)<br />Jessiekah Cook, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno?” Weatherford High School (Traci Sanders)</p><p class="xmsonormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">Fiction Winners:</b></p></div><div><b>First Place</b>: Emily Runyan. “Set in Clay.” Norman High School. (Instructor: Dr. Sara Doolittle)<div><b>Second Place</b>: Elaine Gao. “Coding Van Gogh.” Jenks High School. (Lindsey Taylor)</div><div><b>Third Place:</b> Helena Todd. “Life after Tuesday.” Shawnee High School. (Lynda Thompson)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Honorable Mentions:</b></div><div>Olivia Norman. “Subject 13.” Skiatook High School. (Katrina Morrison)</div><div>Mary Ann Livingood. “Winter Suns and Wooden Cats.” Norman High School. (Dr. Sara Doolittle)</div><div>Liberty Rogers. “The Realworld.” Dale High School. (Taylor Chesser)</div><div>Madelyn Harjo. “Until Sunset.” Shawnee High School. (Lynda Thompson)</div><div>Mylee Moore. “Icarus.” Jenks High School. (Emily Stewart)</div><div>Camryn Pizano. “Know My Name.“ McAlester High School. (Katie Burgess)</div><div>Katelynn Robertson. “The Memory of Snow.” Bixby High School. (Jennifer Phenicie)</div><div>Elissa Marks. “The Kitchen Maid and the Sleeping Beauty.” Edmond Memorial High School. (Kelly Bristow)</div><div>Macie ‘Ciel’ Moon. “Night of All Things Dark.” Edmond Memorial High School. (Beth Lewis)</div><div>Elizabeth Brown. “Hades’ Daughter.” Elmore City-Pernell High School. (Tina Casey)</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-83070779329386912962022-01-12T17:02:00.003-06:002022-01-24T08:21:20.220-06:002022 Scissortail Biographies<b>Dorothy Alexander</b> is a poet, memoirist, storyteller, author of five poetry collections, two multi-genre memoirs, and two volumes of oral history. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including <i>Malpais Review; Sugar Mule Literary Review; Blood & Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine; Oklahoma Humanities Journal; Missing Persons</i>, (Beatlick Press of Albuquerque); <i>Weaving the Terrain</i> (Dos Gatos Press of ABQ). She curated poetry readings at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Oklahoma for 15 years, and is a recipient of the Carlile Award for Distinguished Service to the Oklahoma literary community. She currently curates a monthly poetry reading at the Santa Fe, NM Community Convention Center under the auspices of the City of Santa Fe Bureau of Tourism. She co-owner with Devey Napier of Village Books Press, Santa Fe, NM. In two other lives, Dorothy was a tornado chaser for the National Weather Service, and then a lawyer and municipal judge for 45 years in Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. <br /><br /><b>Jeffrey Alfier</b> was a finalist for the Missouri Laureate Prize in 2021. In 2018, he won the Angela Consolo Manckiewick Poetry Prize, awarded from Lummox Press. In 2014, he won the Kithara Book Prize, judged by Dennis Maloney. Publication credits include <i>Arkansas Review, Atlanta Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Columbia College Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Emerson Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Kestrel, Gargoyle, Hotel Amerika, Los Angeles Review, Louisville Review, The Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Permafrost, Poetry Ireland Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwestern American Literature</i>, and <i>Texas Review</i>. His latest collection of poems is <i>The Shadow Field</i> (Louisiana Literature Journal & Press, 2020). He is also author of <i>Gone This Long: Southern Poems, The Wolf Yearling, Idyll for a Vanishing River, Fugue for a Desert Mountain, Anthem for Pacific Avenue: California Poems, Southbound Express to Bayhead: New Jersey Poems, The Red Stag at Carrbridge: Scotland Poems, Bleak Music: A Photo and Poetry collaboration with poet Larry D. Thomas, The Storm Petrel: Poems of Ireland</i>. He and his wife, Tobi, are founders of Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review, a print publication of poetry and art (since 2009). <br /><br /><b>Rilla Askew</b> is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and a collection of creative nonfiction. She’s a PEN/Faulkner Finalist and recipient of three Oklahoma Book Awards, two Western Heritage Awards, and the American Book Award for her novel about the Tulsa Race Massace, <i>Fire in Beulah</i>. Her collection of nonfiction, <i>Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place</i>, was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She received a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in <i>AGNI, Tin House, World Literature Today, Translatlantica, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards</i>, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.<span><a name='more'></a></span> <br /><br /><b>Paul Austin</b>’s collection <i>Notes on Hard Times</i> was published by Village Books Press. His work has appeared in such publications as <i>This Land, Sugar Mule, Oklahoma Review, More Monologues by Men, Newport Review,</i> and <i>Jerry Jazz Musician</i>. His poems have also been included in <i>Speak Your Mind</i>, the 2019 anthology of Woody Guthrie Poets <i>Buff Buffalo and</i> <i>Indian Paintbrush</i>, an anthology of Oklahoma poetry, <i>Behind the mask: Haiku in the Time of Covid-19, Jerry Jazz Musician, </i>and <i>LEVEL Land: poems for and about the I-35 corridor. Late Night Conspiracies</i>, a collection of his writings was performed with jazz ensemble at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. His book, <i>Spontaneous Behavior, the Art and Craft of Acting</i>, will be published by Turning Plow Press in 2022 <br /><br /><b>Walter Bargen</b> has published 25 books of poetry including: <i>My Other Mother’s Red Mercedes</i> (Lamar University Press, 2018),<i> Until Next Time</i> (Singing Bone Press, 2019), <i>Pole Dancing in the Night Club of God </i>(Red Mountain Press, 2020), and <i>You Wounded Miracle</i>, (Liliom Verlag, 2021). He was appointed the first poet laureate of Missouri (2008-2009). <br /><br /><b>Alan Berecka</b> is very glad to be back in Ada and amongst friends. He reluctantly earns his keep as a librarian at Del Mar College. Berecka’s recently published 5th volume of poems, <i>A Living is not a Life: A Working Title</i>, explores the nature of work and his life as an employee. One who has never been employee of the month material, Berecka is not surprised by the great American resignation, because work is never cracked up to what it’s supposed to be. <br /><br /><b>Paul Bowers</b> lives with his wife on a small farm in northwestern Oklahoma. He teaches writing and literature at Northern Oklahoma College in Enid, and is the author of a short story collection, <i>Like Men, Made Various</i> (2006), and three poetry collections: <i>The Lone, Cautious, Animal Life</i> (2016), <i>Occasional Hymns</i> (2018), and his most recent collection, <i>Ten Acres of the Universe</i> (2022). <br /><br /><b>Joey Brown</b> writes poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in several literary journals including <i>Red Earth Review, Concho River Review, The Sea Letter, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Louisiana Review, The Oklahoma Review, Cybersoleil, The Mid-America Poetry Review</i>, and <i>San Pedro River Review</i>. She reads at literary festivals throughout the Midwest and Southwest. She’s published two collections of poems, <i>Oklahomaography </i>(Mongrel Empire Press) and <i>The Feral Love Poems</i> (Hungry Buzzard Press). Joey teaches professional and creative writing at Missouri Southern State University. She lives in southwest Missouri with her husband, prose writer Michael Howarth, and their congenial pack of rescue dogs. <br /><br /><b>Joan Canby</b> has her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She worked in Corporate America for Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics, Ericsson, and Nortel Networks where she was a technical writer and then a project manager in training. She has been a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas Community Colleges and University of Phoenix. Her poems have been published in <i>California Quarterly, The Hawaiian Advertiser, Illya’s Honey, Texas Observer, Forces, Beginnings, New Voices, Cape Rock, Voices Project, Brevitas, Broken Plate, Main Street Rag</i> and <i>Thema</i>. She has written two Chapbooks <i>Metaxe </i>and <i>Cascades </i>that will be published by Assure Press. She lives in Dallas. <br /><br />Hailed as a juxtaposition of fairy tales and Oklahoma, <b>Yvonne Carpenter</b>’s latest book is a finalist in Women Writing the West in 2021. <i>Westview </i>featured her in a special section also in 2021.She published <i>Red Dirt Roads</i>, 2014 Oklahoma Poetry book of the year. She has read at the Woody Guthrie Festival, the Scissortail Festival and numerous libraries. Her work has appeared in <i>Grain </i>(a Canadian literary journal), <i>Concho River Review, Red Dirt Review, Dragon Poets, Dos Gatos</i>, several anthologies, and e-zines. She has written three books, managed farm finances, worked for a tax accountant, an oil distributor, a newspaper, and taught school.<div><br /><b>Robin Carstensen</b>’s manuscript <i>In the Temple of Shining Mercy</i> received the annual first-place award by Iron Horse Literary Press in 2017. Recent work has been published by FlowerSong Press, Jacar Press, and Lamar Press. She is co-founding senior editor for the <i>Switchgrass Review</i>, advises the <i>Windward Review</i>, and serves on the People’s Poetry Festival Committee. Her work has also earned annual first-place awards with <i>So to Speak: a Literary Journal of Language, Feminism, and Art and Many Mountains Moving: a Journal of Diverse and Contemporary Poetry.</i> Poems are also published in <i>BorderSenses, Southern Humanities Review, Tishman Review, Voices de La Luna, Demeter Press’s anthology, Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland, Fiolet and Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry</i>, and many more. <br /><br /><b>Leah Chaffins</b> is a short story writer, a novelist, and a poet. Her primary writings are horror fiction, memoir, poetry, and journalism. Her work can be found in publications such as the anthologies <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paint Brush, Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way: Poems of Protest & Resistance, and Behind the Yellow Wallpaper, Red Earth Review</i>, and <i>580 Monthly</i>. Leah recently published her first novel, “The God Seed”, and is currently revising her second novel, “Birthmarks: Lucille” and a chapbook “Deep Prairie Bitters.” She is an Assistant Professor at Cameron University. In her free time, Leah volunteers with organizations that are using creative writing to positively impact the world we share. Her current volunteer work includes being a submission judge for Ageless Authors and hosting WOW (Writer’s of the Wichita’s) Workshops. <br /><br />In her former life as a professor of medieval and early modern English literature and creative writing, <b>Julie Chappell</b> published six books of scholarship; a collection of her original poetry, <i>Faultlines</i> (Village Books Press, 2013); and other writings. Her poetry and prose have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals including <i>Concho River Review; Stone Renga; Speak Your Mind: Woody Guthrie Poets Celebrate Freedom of Speech 2019</i>; and <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush</i> (The Poetry of Oklahoma). She has also read her work widely in a variety of venues from California to Virginia and places in between. In 1994, she was the Grand Slam Poetry prize winner in Lawrence, Kansas. Since retiring in 2018, she has published two more collections of poetry, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> (Lamar University Literary Press, 2019) and <i>As I Pirouette Away</i> (Turning Plow Press, 2021). Her second collection, <i>Mad Habits of a Life</i> was nominated for the Paterson Prize in 2020. Her first collection of original short stories, <i>Homecoming and Other Mythic Tales</i>, was published by Fine Dog Press in 2021. <br /><br />Village Books Press published <b>Terri Lynn Cummings</b>’ poetry books, <i>Tales to the Wind, An Element Apart</i>, and 33WoodvalePress published <i>When Distant Hours Call</i>. Her work appears in <i>Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Flint Hills Review, Malpais Review, Ignacious, The New Mexican Newspaper</i>’s cultural magazine, <i>Pasatiempo</i>, as 2020’s first place contest winner in adult poetry, as well as other journals and anthologies. She is Associate Editor and contributor to <i>Songs of Eretz Poetry Review</i>, a Woody Guthrie poet, University of Oklahoma Mark Allen Everett poet, and Scissortail Creative Writing Festival presenter. She serves on the advisory committee of Oklahoma City University’s Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film and Literature, and presents her work at symposiums and festivals. In addition, she co-hosts the monthly Full Circle Bookstore Poetry Series and open mic in Oklahoma City. Terri has studied at Creative Writing Institute and holds a B.S. in Sociology/Anthropology from Oklahoma State University.<br /><br /><b>Robert L. Dean, Jr</b>. is the author of <i>The Aerialist Will not be Performing: ekphrastic poems and short fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder</i> (Turning Plow Press, 2020), and <i>At the Lake with Heisenberg</i> (Spartan Press, 2018), and a forthcoming chapbook, Pulp, scheduled with Finishing Line Press for July 2022. A multiple Best of the Net nominee and a Pushcart nominee, his work has appeared in <i>MockingHeart Review; October Hill Magazine; Flint Hills Review; I-70 Review; Chiron Review; The Ekphrastic Review; Sheila-Na-Gig online; Shot Glass; Illya’s Honey; Red River Review; KYSO Flash; MacQueen’s Quinterly; Thorny Locust; River City Poetry; Heartland!</i> and the <i>Wichita Broadside Project</i>. Dean is a member of The Writers Place and the Kansas Authors Club, and event coordinator for <i>Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music</i>, held annually in Wichita, Kansas. Since the onset of the pandemic, he has read in many online forums across the country. He can usually be found at SpoFest three Tuesdays every month. Recordings of some of his work are forthcoming in <i>The Writers Place</i> first audio book. A native Kansan, Dean has been a professional musician, and worked at <i>The Dallas Morning News</i>. He lives in Augusta, Kansas. <br /><br /><b>Marc DiPaolo</b> is an Associate Professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, treasurer of the Working-Class Studies Association, and Secretary of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He published the autobiographical novel <i>Fake Italian</i> (Bordighera Press) in 2021. DiPaolo has also written the academic books <i>Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones</i> (2018) and <i>War, Politics, and Superheroes</i> (2011). His media interviews include appearances on NPR, BBC4, and AMC’s documentary <i>Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics</i> (2017). <br /><br /><b>Richard Dixon</b> is a retired high-school Special Education teacher and tennis coach. He has had his poetry, fiction and non-fiction published in Dragon Poet Review, Conclave, Crosstimbers, Westview, Red Earth Review, Red River Review, Red Earth Forum, Oklahoma Today, Walt’s Corner of the Long Islander, HARD CRACKERS, 3 Woody Guthrie anthologies in 2011, 2013 and 2017 as well as<i> Clash By Night</i>, an anthology of poems related to the breakthrough 1979 album by the Clash, London Calling. He has been a featured reader at Full Circle Bookstore, the Depot in Norman, OK, the Benedict St. Marketplace and Lunch Box in Shawnee, OK. He has also read his work at Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in Ada, OK, Chikaskia Literary Festival in Tonkawa, OK. and the annual Woody Guthrie readings in Oklahoma City, Okemah and Tulsa, OK. He is the author of a chapbook of poems, <i>Leaving Home</i> (2017). <br /><br /><b>Woodstok Farley</b>, aka <b>Michael Dooley</b>, is an assistant professor at Tarleton State University—Stephenville, Texas. Having wandered from south Florida to Oklahoma, then to Texas, Woodstok delights in telling tales from sandals to socks. His first collection of short stories entitled <i>As the Wave Rose: Florida Tales and Other Wandering Stories</i>, published by Fine Dog Press, displays his deep yearning to return to the seacoast. Woodstok's second collection of short stories set mainly in the southwest continues the tales of this wandering beach-bum longing for his home.<br /><br />Not quite life-ready, <b>Maureen DuRant </b>works as a librarian for Lawton Public Schools at the newly conceived Life Ready Center. Additionally, she teaches communications for Cameron University and she fixes clocks. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Queen’s University in Charlotte while she tried to find herself. Press 53 published her first collection of poetry,<i> Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border</i>, April Fool's Day, 2020. Really. Other publications include poetry in <i>Crosstimbers, Red River Review, Westview</i>, and <i>The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology</i> as well as a postcard history of West Point published by Arcadia Press.<br /><b><br />Chris Ellery</b>, from San Angelo, Texas, is author of five poetry collections, including <i>Canticles of the Body</i> and <i>Elder Tree</i>. His work has appeared recently in <i>Christian Century, The Sufi Journal, Crosswinds</i>, and <i>Blue Hole</i>. He is a frequent contributor to <a href="http://texaspoetryasignment.org/">texaspoetryasignment.org</a>. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has received the X.J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Dora and Alexander Raynes Prize for Poetry, and the Betsy Colquitt Award. <br /><br /><b>Todd Fuller </b>is co-editor of <i>Level Land</i> and serves as curator of the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of <i>60 Feet Six Inches and Other Distances from Home: the (Baseball) Life of Mose YellowHorse</i> (Holy Cow! Press) and <i>To the Disappearance</i> (Mongrel Empire Press). Recent work has been anthologized in <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush</i> (the Poetry of Oklahoma), the <i>Beat Generation Anthology, Release Me, the Spirits of Greenwood Speak</i>, and <i>The Eloquent Poem</i>. <br /><br /><b>Alan Gann </b>facilitates after-school programming and writing workshops for under-served youth for which he wrote <i>DaVerse Works</i>, a performance poetry curriculum. Multiple Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Alan is the author of three volumes of poetry: <i>Better Ways to See</i> (Assure Press), <i>That’s Entertainment</i> (Lamar University Literary Press), and <i>Adventures of the Clumsy Juggler</i> (Ink Brush Press). His nonexistent spare time is spent bird watching, biking and otherwise enjoying the outdoors. <br /><br />Inspired equally by her upbringing on the plains of Oklahoma and time spent exploring the high desert of New Mexico, <b>Ky George</b> uses essay, fiction, and even a little poetry to explore the intimate relationships between the land and its people. A queer femme reared in the Bible Belt, she seeks to tell stories of radical inclusion in unexpected spaces. Ky is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA and has had work published in <i>The Oklahoma Review</i> and <i>Insurrection</i>. <br /><br /><b>Andrew Geyer</b>’s ninth book is the story cycle <i>Lesser Mountains</i> (Lamar University Press, 2019). A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and recently selected for induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, he currently serves as fiction editor for <i>Concho River Review</i>.<br /><br /><b>Lyman Grant</b> is a poet and writer currently living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is married and the father of three sons. In addition to two textbooks and four edited books, he has published one chapbook and six volumes of poems. The most recent, <i>Old Men on Tuesday Afternoons </i>(2017) and <i>Found Poems and Weather Reports</i> (2020), are published by Alamo Bay Press. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently in <i>Writing Texas, Concho River Review, Soul x Southwest, Endlessly Rocking, Texas Poetry Calendar, We Are Residents Here, Unlocking the Word</i>, and <i>Five Friends Sunday Afternoons</i>. He taught for 40 years at Austin Community College (Austin, Texas) and retired after serving as Dean of Arts and Humanities and as Interim Dean of Communications. <br /><br /><b>Mary B. Gray</b> was born and raised in Lawton, OK and received her Bachelor of Arts in both Journalism and English Writing, as well her Master of Public Administration (MPA), from the University of Oklahoma and her Master of Fine Arts from Oklahoma City University. Mary has taken part in Short Order Poems and The Ralph Ellison creative writing workshops. Previous public readings include the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration, Society of Urban Poet presentations in 2019 and 2020 as well as the Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series in October 2019. Her work has been published in <i>Ain’t Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing, Territory Magazine</i> and <i>For the Sonorous</i>. <br /><br /><b>Michael Howarth</b> holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. He is a Professor of English at Missouri Southern State University where he teaches Children’s Literature and Film Studies in addition to directing the Honors Program. He is the author of two critical texts, <i>Under the Bed, Creeping: Psychoanalyzing the Gothic in Children’s Literature</i> and <i>Movies to See before You Graduate from High School</i>. He is also the author of <i>Fair Weather Ninjas</i>, a young adult novel. His newest book, a gothic historical novel titled <i>A Still and Awful Red</i>, was published in 2021. <br /><br /><b>Ann Howells</b>, transplanted from Maryland to Texas in 1979, where she edited <i>Illya’s Honey</i> poetry journal for eighteen years, both in print and online. She is active in several workshop groups. Her most recent books are: <i>So Long As We Speak Their Names</i> (Kelsay Books, 2019) about the Chesapeake Bay watermen’s culture, and <i>Painting the Pinwheel Sky</i> (Assure Press, 2020) persona poems primarily in the voice of Vincent Van Gogh. Two of her early chapbooks were published through contests: <i>Black Crow in Flight</i>, as Editor’s Choice in <i>Main Street Rag</i>’s 2007 competition and <i>Softly Beating Wings</i> as 2017 William D. Barney winner (Blackbead Books). Ann’s work appears in many small press and university journals.<br /><br /><b>Maryann Hurtt </b>is fascinated by the strange tension between beauty and a harsh world. Now retired after thirty years working as a hospice RN, her chapbook, <i>River</i>, (Kelsay Books, 2016) explores issues of resiliency. pain, and beauty. <i>Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices</i> (Turning Plow Press) was published in 2021, Tar Creek has been called the “worst environmental disaster no one has heard of” and she is passionate that its story is remembered. She is currently working on a collection tentatively titled <i>Of Peonies and Murderous Doings</i>. This past year, Hurtt was a featured reader at the Chikaskia Literary Festival, received A Best of the Net nomination, (“Agent Orange and Orchids”) and won Cornerstone Press’s Portage Poetry Series Prize. (“My Grandfather Tells a Story of Outlaws and Flowers”) <br /><br /><b>Jessica Isaacs</b> is the founder and co-editor of <i>Dragon Poet Review</i>, an online literary journal. Her book, <i>Deep August</i> (Village Books Press), received the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry. Her poems appear in various publications, including <i>Speak Your Mind, Oklahoma Today</i>, and <i>The Ekphrastic Review</i>. She teaches writing and humanities courses at Seminole State College. <br /><br />Originally from the hilly corner of Ohio, <b>Mark Allen Jenkins</b>’s poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from <i>Pine Hills Review, Gargoyle, minnesota review, River Styx, South Dakota Review, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio</i>, and <i>Still: The Journal</i>. He completed a PhD in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas and currently teaches in Houston.<br /><br /><b>Markham Johnson</b>'s book of poetry, <i>Dear Dreamland</i>, will be published by Lamar University Press in May. His previous book, <i>Collecting the Light</i>, was published by the University Press of Florida, and a chapbook, selected by Philip Levine, was published by the South Florida Poetry Review. In 2016, Johnson won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from Nimrod. Recent publications include: <i>Coal Hill Review, Consequence Magazine, Comstock Review, English Journal, Nine Mile Magazine, Sport Literate</i>, and <i>Greenwood One Hundred</i>. He received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. <br /><br /><b>Hank Jones</b> backpacked the world in his youth hoping to find a poet within until lack of funds prompted him to seek a job at his alma mater, Tarleton State University. He planned to stay a year or two and get back on the road, but twenty-one years later, he is an assistant professor at the same university. To keep his creative spirit alive, and to hone his facility with the written word, he enrolled in the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University from which graduated in 2019. His poetry has been published in <i>Cybersoleil: A Literary Journal, Voices de la Luna, Dragon Poet Review, the Concho River Review</i>, and <i>Red River Review</i>. He’s also contributed poems to T<i>he Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology</i> from Lamar University Literary Press, <i>Speak Your Mind: Poems of Protest & Resistance</i>, published by Village Books Press, the <i>Stone Renga Anthology</i> from Tale Feathers Press, and most recently <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush (The Poetry of Oklahoma)</i>, edited by Ron Wallace. His first book of poetry, <i>Too Late for Manly Hands</i>, was published by Turning Plow Press in 2021. He now lives in a beautiful house overlooking Lake Keystone with his wife, Julie Chappell, and drives six hours to teach his courses at Tarleton. <br /><br />Living what could be charitably called a nomadic life, <b>Paul Juhasz</b> was born in western New Jersey, grew up just outside New Haven, Connecticut, and has spent appreciable chunks of his life in the plains of central Illinois, in the upper hill country of Texas, and in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Most recently seduced by the spirit of the red earth, he now lives in Oklahoma City. He has worked at an Amazon fulfillment center, manned a junk truck, and driven for Uber, material he’s drawn on for his poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. His work has appeared in several literary journals, most recently<i> Red Earth Review, Poetry Quarterly, Oklahoma Review</i> and <i>Concho River Review</i>. He is also author of two books—<i>Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker</i>, a mock journal covering his six-month stint in an Amazon warehouse, and <i>Ronin</i>, a collection of (mostly) prose poems—both published by Fine Dog Press.<br /><br /><b>Haesong Kwon</b> was born in Incheon, Korea and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was eight. He has a few degrees, one of which is an MFA in Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Amherst. His books include <i>Many Have Fallen</i> (Chapbook: Cutbank Books) and <i>The People’s Field</i> (Southeast Missouri State University). He teaches at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, KY. <br /><br /><b>Heather Levy</b> is a born and bred Oklahoman and graduate of Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth MFA program for creative writing. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including <i>CrimeReads</i> and <i>NAILED Magazine</i>. The <i>New York Times</i> called her debut <i>Walking Through Needles</i> “a spellbinding novel at the nexus of power, desire, and abuse that portends a bright future” and the <i>L.A. Times</i> called it “a standout for its frank but sensitive exploration of trauma and desire.” She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, two kids, and three murderous cats. Follow her on Twitter and IG @heatherllevy. <br /><br /><b>Huichun (Amy) Liang</b> is a Chinese writer and translator, and she is a Chinese Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia. She is the author of her poetry collection: <i>autumn, presencing</i>, co-author (with Zhanjing) of <i>Chinese Idioms</i> and co-translator (with Steven Schroeder) of <a href="http://vacpoetry.org/small"><i>Small</i></a> (poetry by Li Nan), and of other anthologies of poetry translation. Her writing has appeared on a variety of Chinese media. Her translation appears in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine(Hong Kong), <i>Sichuan Literature</i>, <i>Rhino </i>and some other anthologies of Chinese and English bilingual poetry translation. Her poems, <i>Loneliness</i> and <i>Translator </i>have been in the shortlists respectfully in the Flushing Poetry Festival, 2018 and International Flushing Poetry Festival, 2019. Her prose (essay)- “ A Rhapsody of Autumn” (Chinese) received a honorable mention in the Twenty Eight Sino Literature Essay Contest for 2020-2021. Huichun received the 2016 Purple Chalk Teaching award of the College of Arts and Science in MU. She was an editor and reporter at the China National Radio from1985 to 1988. She received a special award for reporting on the terrible forest fire on Da-Xing-An Mountain in 1987 from the All-China Journalists Association and was the co-winner of the 1987 Annual News Editing prize of the China National Radio.<br /><br /><b>Jordan Mackey </b>has a BA in English from Cameron University, and in completing her MFA at Lindenwood University in Creative Writing. She has become more involved in Creative Writing since she started to teach the minds of young Oklahomans, and is ecstatic to continue her education on the subject matter. She hopes that her writing is a source of insight and guidance for those struggling with the same demons she once did as a child. She has had a variety of nonfiction and poetry published in <i>The Iconoclast, The Gold Mine, The Rose, Liminal Women's Anthology,</i> and the <i>580 Monthly</i>. <br /><div><br /></div><b>Dave Malone</b> is a poet and filmmaker from the Missouri Ozarks. He is the author of seven books of poetry. His newest volume, <i>Tornado Drill</i>, will be released by Aldrich Press in April. Dave can be found online at <a href="http://davemalone.net/">davemalone.net</a>.<div><br /><div><b>Daniel Marroquin</b> teaches high school English in Killeen, TX and was featured in the <i>Harker Heights Herald</i> as staff member of the month (March, 2018). His collected journalism can be found at <i>Nondoc.com</i>, a political journal in Oklahoma City. He graduated from The University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism and mass communication. He was a recipient of a Creative Projects Grant from The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition for his documentary short subject ‘Skywriters.’ <br /><br /><b>Sharon Edge Martin</b> has been published in <i>Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Family Circle, Malpais Review, Oklahoma Today, Outside, True West</i>, and three Wood Guthrie Anthologies. Her work is included in Michael Bugeja’s <i>The Art and Craft of Poetry</i>, and she has been a regular contributor to the <i>Oklahoma Observer </i>for more than a dozen years. She is the author of a picture book, <i>Froggy Bottom Blues</i>, and two books from Village Books Press—a poetry collection, <i>Not a Prodigal</i>, and a book of essays, <i>I’ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in a Red State</i>. She is currently at work on a novel in verse <br /><br /><b>Abigale Mazzo</b> is currently a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Tulsa and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University. Her work has appeared in <i>The Gold Mine, The Oklahoma Review, Jelly Bucket</i>, and <i>580 Monthly</i>. She is an Oklahoma native that loves to write about the Midwest and the people and traditions of the area. Abigale enjoys traveling, trying new things, and spending time with her husband and dogs. <br /><br /><b>Bill McCloud</b> is a poetry editor for the <i>Right Hand Pointing</i> literary journal and is the poetry reviewer for Vietnam Veterans of America. His poetry book, <i>The Smell of the Light</i> (Balkan Press), reached #1 on <i>The Oklahoman</i>’s “Oklahoma Bestsellers List.” His poems have appeared in <i>Oklahoma Today</i> and the <i>Oklahoma English Journal</i>, are taught in classes at the University School of Milwaukee, WI, and discussed in a Creative Writing class at the University of Tulsa. He is a faculty member of William Bernhardt’s WriterCon, presenting sessions on writing and publishing poetry. Bernhardt’s Balkan Press will be publishing McCloud’s second full-length poetry book, <i>A Charming Little Hurt</i>. <br /><br />A graduate of St. John's College and of the George Mason University MFA Program, <b>Gary Worth Moody</b> has worked as a forest fire fighter, a farrier, a cowboy, and as a construction manager building a town for coal miners in Siberia’s Kuzbass Region. His poems have appeared in myriad journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and in the anthologies, <i>Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001</i> (Word Works Press) and <i>Weaving The Terrain</i> (Dos Gatos Press). He is the author of <i>Hazards of Grace</i> (Red Mountain Press, 2012), <i>Occoquan </i>(Red Mountain Press, 2015) shortlisted for the international Rubery Book Award in poetry. Gary’s 3rd manuscript, <i>The Burnings</i> (3:A Taos Press, 2019) was chosen as a co-winner of the 2020 New Mexico / Arizona Book Award in Poetry. He is currently developing a 4th manuscript with working title <i>This Feral Light. </i>A falconer, Gary lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with the artist and writer Oriana Rodman, Handsome the Dachshund, Beauty the grulla dog, and Fuego the Red-tail hawk.<br /><br /><b>Phil Morgan</b> is an Oklahoma poet, novelist, biographer, and literary critic. Phil and his wife, painter and sculptor Kate Arnott Morgan, live and work on Morgan’s Mulberry Grove Farm. They utilize agroforestry techniques on the farm, celebrating its 115th anniversary this year, located in the Chickasaw Nation near Blanchard town. Phil publishes under his full given name, Phillip Carroll Morgan, and is currently working with editors from White Dog Press who intend to publish in 2022 the sequel to his 2015 novel entitled <i>Anompolichi, the Wordmaster.</i> His most recent publications were the essay, “Love Can Build a Bridge, the Choctaw Gift of 1847,” and the poem, “Postcards from Moundville.” Both appeared in <i>Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present</i>, published by Michigan State University Press in 2020. <br /><br /><b>John Graves Morris</b>, Professor of English at Cameron University, is the author of <i>Noise and Stories</i>, a collection published by Plain View Press in 2008. His second poetry manuscript, <i>The County Seat of Wanting So Many Thing</i>s, is a homeless child still in search of a foster publisher. His poems have appeared in <i>The Chariton Review, The Concho River Review, The Red River Review, The Red Earth Review, Jelly Bucket, Westview</i>, and other publications. He lives in Lawton. <br /><br /><b>Christopher Murphy</b> received his MFA from The University of Arkansas and teaches creative writing at Northeastern State University. He reads for Nimrod International Journal and serves on the board for the Oklahoma Humanities Council. His work has been published at Gulf Coast (online), This Land, Jellyfish Review, Necessary Fiction, and decomP among others. He has a collection of flash fiction, <i>Burning All the Time</i>, from Mongrel Empire Press. <br /><b><br />Tom Murphy</b> is the 2021-2022 Corpus Christi Poet Laureate. Murphy’s books: <i>Snake Woman Moo</i>n (2021), <i>Pearl </i>(2020), <i>American History </i>(2017), co-edited <i>Stone Renga</i> (2017). Murphy’s CDs <i>Live from Del Mar College</i> (2015), and <i>Slams from the Pit</i> (2014). <a href="http://tommurphywriter.com/">tommurphywriter.com</a> <br /><br /><b> Benjamin Myers</b> was the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and is the author of three books of poetry: <i>Black Sunday</i> (Lamar University Press, 2018), <i>Lapse Americana</i> (New York Quarterly Books, 2013) and <i>Elegy for Trains</i> (Village Books Press, 2010). His poems may be read in <i>The Yale Review, Rattle, 32 Poems, Image, Nimrod</i> and other literary journals. He is a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and a recipient of the Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference. Myers lives with his wife and three children in Chandler, Oklahoma, and is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Literature at Oklahoma Baptist University. His first book of non-fiction, <i>A Poetics of Orthodoxy</i>, was recently published by Cascade Books. <br /><br /><b> Vivian Finley Nida</b> is the author of <i>From Circus Town, USA</i> (Village Books Press). She is a<i> Songs of Eretz Poetry Review</i> Frequent Contributor, a University of Oklahoma Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series poet, a Woody Guthrie poet, and a Scissortail Creative Writing Festival presenter. With a B.A.and M.S. from Oklahoma State University, she taught English and Creative Writing until retirement. She continues to serve as a Teacher/Consultant with the University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Writing Project. Since its inception in 1997, she has been a member of the advisory committee of Oklahoma City University’s Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film and Literature. In 2021, her poetry won second place in the OKC Writers, Inc. contest and 3rd in <i>Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry</i>’s professional contest. Her work appears in <i>Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Oklahoma Humanities magazine, Conclave 2018: The Trickster’s Song, Dragon Poet Review, Illya’s Honey, River Poets Journal</i>, and elsewhere. <br /><br /><b>Neal Ostman</b>’s poetry has appeared in various journals, anthologies and e-zines including: <i>artsDFW guide; Cattlemen & Cadillacs; ComradesUK.com; Electric Acorn, Dublin, Ireland; The Fort Worth Poet; Lotuseaters.net; Lllya’s Honey; New Texas 2001; Pierian Springs; Poems Niederngasse; Poetry Pacific; Red River Review, Under the Streets and Bridges</i>, and <i>Wired Art from Wired Hearts</i>. His poetry readings have been well received at many venues in Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, and other cities in his travels. Neal has taught writing and poetry seminars at the OU Short Course on Professional Writing and Texas Writers’ Conferences, respectively. In addition to poetry, his published credits include, humor and op-ed columns, and business articles. Neal is a member of the Dallas Poets Community and The Poetry Society of Texas. He lives in Colleyville, Texas. <br /><br /><b>Shaun Perkins</b> is the founder/director of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, newspapers, magazines and books. Her detective novel in verse, <i>The Book with the Beacon Lights</i>, was published by Bacone College’s Indian University Press. Perkins is a storyteller and webmaster for the Territory Tellers, a Teaching Artist with the Oklahoma Arts Council, and a podcast host of Wacky Poem Life and Okie Noir. <br /><br /><b>Brady Peterson</b> lives near Belton, Texas. He is the author of <i>Glued to the Earth, Between Stations, Dust, From an Upstairs Window, </i>and <i>García Lorca is Somewhere in Produce</i>. His latest book, <i>At the Edge of Town</i>, was released last fall to much applause. Paul Juhasz says he liked it. <br /><br /><b>Keely Record</b> lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Received an MFA from the Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City University. She serves on the editorial board of Nimrod International Journal. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Atlas Poetica</i> and <i>Bamboo Hut.</i><br /><br /><b>Gary Reddin</b> grew up among the cicada songs and tornado sirens of Southwest Oklahoma. His writing was born out of these dissonant sounds. His work has appeared in Stoneboat, The Razor, Marathon Lit Review, The Windmill, and elsewhere. He can be found online as @andrewreddin on Twitter. He can also be reached by email at andrewreddin@gmail.com. <br /><br />The poems, reviews, and essays of <b>Carol Coffee Reposa</b> have appeared or are forthcoming in <i>The Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, The Texas Observer, Southwestern American Literature, The Valparaiso Review</i>, and other journals and anthologies. Author of five books of poetry – <i>At the Border: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts of Life, Underground Musicians</i>, and <i>New and Selected Poems 2018</i> – Reposa was a finalist in <i>The Malahat Review</i> Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest (1992), and winner of the San Antonio Public Library Arts & Letters Award (2015). She also has received five Pushcart Prize nominations in addition to three Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and of the editorial staff at<i> Voices de la Luna</i>, she is the 2018 Texas Poet Laureate. <br /><br /><b> Sally Rhoades</b>, a former Capital reporter in Albany, N.Y., began writing poetry in the late 1980’s. This year she participated in writing "A Poem a Day" with a reading this past December. She was featured in <i>The Trolley</i>, a Writer Institute on-line journal. She has been the guest of "Poetry Spoken Here" – a podcast directed by interviewer/poet Charlie Rossiter. Her poems have appeared in <i>Misfit Magazine</i>, edited by Alan Catlin. She has also been published in <i>Dragon Poetry Review, 2, Elegant Rage, a poetic tribute honoring the centennial of Woody Guthrie</i>, the <i>Highwatermark Salo[o]n</i> performance series by Stockpot flats, <i>Up the River</i>, by Albany Poets and in Peerglass, an anthology of Hudson Valley peer groups. She is also a performance artist and performs regularly in NYC. <br /><br /><b> Rob Roensch </b>is the author of the story collection <i>The Wildflowers of Baltimore</i> (Salt, 2012) and the short novel <i>The World and the Zoo</i> (Outpost19, 2020). He teaches at Oklahoma City University and directs the Red Earth MFA. <br /><br /><b>Molly Sizer</b> is a retired rural sociologist living in southwest Oklahoma. She spends most of her time walking in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, and occasionally writes poetry. She’s presented her words to Lawton’s Third Saturday readings, Duncan’s Reading Down the Plains, the 2018 Woody Guthrie Poetry Readings and the 2019 Scissortail Festival. Her work has been published in <i>Westview </i>and <i>The Oklahoma Review</i>. <br /><br /><b>Christopher Stephen Soden</b> received his MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in January of 2005. He teaches craft, theory, genre and literature. He writes poetry, plays, literary, film and theatre critique for <a href="http://sharpcritic.co/">sharpcritic.com</a> and EdgeDallas. Christopher’s poetry collection, <i>Closer </i>was released by Rebel Satori Press on June 14th, 2011. He received a Full Fellowship to Lambda Literary's Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in August 2010. His performance piece: Queer Anarchy received The Dallas Voice's Award for Best Stage Performance. <i>Water </i>and <i>A Christmas Wish</i> were staged at Bishop Arts and <i>Radio Flyer</i> and <i>Every Day is Christmas</i>. <i>In Heaven</i>. at Nouveau 47. Other honors include: Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Series, Founding Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community. His work has appeared in: <i>Rattle, The Cortland Review, 1111, Peculiar, Briar’s Lit, Typishly, F(r)iction, G & L Review, Chelsea Station, Glitterwolf, Collective Brightness, A Face to Meet the Faces, Resilience, Ganymede Poets: One, Gay City 2, The Café Review, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Windy City Times, ArLiJo, Best Texas Writing 2</i>.<br /><br /><b>Denise Tolan</b>'s work has been included in places such as <i>The Best Small Fictions 2018</i>, The Best Short Stories from <i>The Saturday Evening Post, Hobart, Atlas and Alice</i>, and <i>Lunch Ticket</i>. Denise was a finalist for both the 2019 and 2018 International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Prize in Nonfiction and a finalist in 2018 and 2019 for the Diane Wood’s Memorial Award for Nonfiction. Her work was also longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 and nominated for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2020 and Best of the Net 2021. <br /><br /><b>Ron Wallace</b> is an Oklahoma native and currently an adjunct instructor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, in Durant, Oklahoma. He is the author of nine books of poetry, five of which have been finalists in the Oklahoma Book Awards. <i>Renegade and Other Poems</i> was the 2018 winner of the Oklahoma Book Award. Wallace has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and has recently been published in <i>Oklahoma Today, Concho River Review, Red Earth Review, Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Borderlands</i>, and a number of other magazines and journals. He has just finished editing <i>Bull Buffalo and Indian Paintbrush</i>, a collection of Oklahoma Poetry. <br /><br /><b>Sarah Webb</b> is the former poetry editor of <i>Crosstimbers</i>, an interdisciplinary journal from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Her poetry collections <i>Red Riding Hood's Sister</i> (virtual artists collective, 2018) and <i>Black </i>(virtual artists collective, 2013) were finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award and Black for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. She is a co-editor for the Zen arts magazine <i>Just This</i> and co-leader of an ongoing writing group for Zen and Writing. <br /><br /><b>Ann E. Weisman</b> has produced three collections of poetry and one CD of her collaborations with musicians. Her most recent publications are <i>Speak Your Mind</i>, the 2019 Woody Guthrie Anthology; the <i>2021 Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology</i>; and the upcoming <i>New Mexico Poetry Anthology</i>. Her poem, "I Can Be Like Water," was awarded first place in the professional category in the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry (ROMP) 2019 Water Poem Contest. In February of 2020, she created and curated a poetry & visual art exhibition and reading, <i>We Are All Related</i>, at Liggett Studio in Tulsa. She retired as the Deputy Director of New Mexico Arts in 2014 and now lives in Tulsa along the river with her husband, Charles King. <br /><br /><b>Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue</b>,a writer from Fort Worth, Texas, has published over 100 poems in a number of venues, including T<i>he Texas Observer, California Quarterly, Borderlands, Poetry Motel, Barbaric Yawp</i>, and two anthologies of Texas poetry.He was a juried poet at The Houston Poetry Fest in 1994. In 2004, his chapbook was a semi-finalist in a Winnow Press contest. That same chapbook earned a finalist designation for a Dobie Paisano Fellowship. Also, it was twice a finalist for Dallas Poets Community chapbook contest. In April 2011, he was a featured poet at their First Friday Reading. Last fall Hungry Buzzard Press published a collection of his poems entitled <i>What I Did Not Tell You</i>. <br /><br /><b>Cullen Whisenhunt </b>is a graduate of Oklahoma City University's Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program, and his work has been published in N<i>inth Letter, Atlas Poetica 40, Red River Review</i>, and Dragon Poet Review, among other journals. His debut chapbook, <i>Among the Trees</i>, was published by Fine Dog Press in 2021. <br /><br /><b>Bertha Wise</b> is a retired Professor of English at Oklahoma City Community College. She earned a BS in English Education and MA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma (UC0). Originally from central New York State, she found her way to Oklahoma over thirty years ago through a circuitous route, having also lived in such diverse locations as Arizona, New Hampshire, California, and South Carolina in the U.S. and Tachikawa, Japan. Several of her poems have been published in various college and university literary journals including <i>Baraza </i>(at UCO), <i>Redbud </i>(at OSU-OKC), <i>Pegasus </i>(at Rose State College), <i>Absolute </i>(at OCCC) and <i>Dragon Poet Review</i>. She was a caregiver to her late husband, but she looks forward to the future potential to travel more and write more poems. Her first chapbook, published in 2020, is titled <i>First Truth</i>. <br /><br /><b>Clarence Wolfshohl</b> is professor emeritus at William Woods University. Since his first publication in <i>The Road Apple Review</i>, he has been active in the small press as writer and publisher for over fifty years, publishing poetry and non-fiction in many journals, both print and online, including <i>New Texas, San Pedro River Review, Agave, Cape Rock</i>, and <i>New Letters</i>. Among his publications are the e-chapbook <i>Scattering Ashes</i> (Virtual Artists Collective, 2016), the chapbook <i>Holy Toledo</i> (El Grito del Lobo Press, 2017), <i>Queries and Wonderments</i> (El Grito del Lobo Press, 2017), and <i>Armadillos & Groundhogs</i> in late 2019. Wolfshohl lives in the suburbs of Toledo, Missouri, with his cat.<br /> </div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-91390650745127192632022-01-12T17:00:00.000-06:002022-01-12T17:05:09.563-06:0017th Annual Scissortail: Featured Authors<b>LOU BERNEY </b><br /><br />Lou Berney is the author of <i>November Road </i>(winner of the Dagger, Hammett, Anthony, Barry, Lefty, and Macavity, and a <i>Washington Post Best Book</i> of 2018), <i>The Long and Faraway Gone</i> (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity, and ALA awards), <i>Whiplash River</i>, and <i>Gutshot Straight</i>, all from William Morrow. He’s also written a collection of stories, <i>The Road to Bobby Joe</i>, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Ploughshares</i>, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches in the MFA program at Oklahoma City University. <br /><br /><b>JENNIFER CASAS GIVHAN </b><br /><br />Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American and indigenous poet and novelist (author of <i>Trinity Sight </i>and <i>Jubilee</i>), who grew up in the Imperial Valley, a small, border community in the Southern California desert. Her family has ancestral ties to the indigenous peoples of New Mexico and Texas, including Ysleta del Sur and the Tigua Indian peoples of the Ysleta region of El Paso. <br /><br />Givhan earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina and a Master’s degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at California State University Fullerton. She has been awarded a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, The Frost Place Latinx Scholarship, a 2020 Southwest Book Award, an Honorable Mention for 2021 The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award category from the International Latino Book Awards Foundation, The 2019 <i>New Ohio Review</i> Poetry Prize chosen by Tyehimba Jess, <i>Cutthroat Journal</i>’s 2018 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize chosen by Patricia Spears Jones, The 2017 Greg Grummer Poetry Prize chosen by Monica Youn, The 2015 Lascaux Review Editors’ Choice Poetry Prize, and The Pinch Poetry Prize chosen by Ada Limón. <br /><br />Givhan’s poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in <i>The New Republic, The Nation, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, POETRY, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Salon, The Rumpus</i>, and <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, among many others.<br /><br /><b>ARTHUR SZE </b><br /><br />Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including T<i>he Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems</i> (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); <i>Sight Lines </i>(Copper Canyon, 2019), which won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry; <i>Compass Rose</i> (Copper Canyon, 2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; <i>The Ginkgo Light</i> (Copper Canyon, 2009), selected for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award in Poetry and a PEN Southwest Book Award; <i>Quipu </i>(Copper Canyon, 2005); <i>The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998</i> (Copper Canyon, 1998), selected for the Balcones Poetry Prize and an Asian-American Literary Award; and <i>Archipelago </i>(Copper Canyon, 1995), selected for an American Book Award. <br /><br />His other books include <i>River River</i> (1987), <i>Dazzled </i>(1982), <i>Two Ravens</i> (1976; revised edition, 1984), and <i>The Willow Wind</i> (1972; revised edition, 1981). He has also published <i>The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese</i> (Copper Canyon, 2001), selected for a Western States Book Award, and edited <i>Chinese Writers on Writing</i> (Trinity University Press, 2010). <i>Pig's Heaven Inn,</i> a bilingual, Chinese/English selected poems, was published in Beijing (Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2014). <br /><br />His poems have appeared internationally in such publications as <i>American Poet; The American Poetry Review; Boston Review; Chicago Review; Conjunctions; Field; The Georgia Review; Harvard Review; The Kenyon Review; Manoa; The Massachusetts Review; Michigan Quarterly Review; Narrative; The Nation; New England Review; The New Republic; The New York Times; The New Yorker; Orion; The Paris Review; Ploughshares; Poetry; Tin House; Triquarterly; The Virginia Quarterly Review; The Washington Post; Hotel Parnassus: Poetry International 2007</i> (Rotterdam); <i>Kyoto Journal</i> (Kyoto); <i>Pamirs Poetry Journey: The First Chinese-English Poetry Festival</i>, 2007 (Huang Shan, China); <i>Promoteo </i>(XIX Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín, 2009); <i>American Alphabets; The Best American Poetry</i> (2004, 2019, 2020); <i>Language for a New Century; The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses</i> (1996, 2010, 2020) and <i>Verse and Universe</i>. His poems have been translated into thirteen languages: Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Burmese, Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, and Uzbek. <br /><br />He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the 8th Annual ‘T’ Space Poetry Award (2020), The Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers (2013), a Lila Wallace-<i>Reader’s Digest</i> Writers’ Award (1998-2000), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (1995), two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships (1982, 1993), a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University (1991), five Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry grants (1980, 1983, 1994, 1997, 2012), and the Eisner Prize, University of California at Berkeley (1971). Sze was a Helen Zell Visiting Writer at the University of Michigan (2019), a Humana Visiting Scholar at Centre College (2012), a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University (2005), a Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College (2004-2005), and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, Naropa University, and the University of Utah. He served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2012 to 2017 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives. <br /><br /> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-83776230474479396792021-11-04T14:22:00.000-05:002021-11-04T14:23:51.563-05:00Scissortail Submission Guidelines 2021-2022<div><b><br /></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">17th Annual Scissortail Festival, March 31-April 2, 2022</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We
intend to hold an in-person festival. We invite submissions to be considered
for the program. Please send your best work, while considering the following
guidelines. Please follow exactly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>COVID DISCLAIMER</b>: By submitting your work to be included as a
participant and/or audience member of the 2022 Scissortail Festival, you
voluntarily acknowledge that you have been vaccinated for COVID and/or you
fully accept all responsibility for any potential health risk when gathering in
these public events. By submitting work to be included on the festival program,
applicants further agree to hold harmless the Scissortail Creative Writing
Festival and East Central University. You also recognize that plans to hold an
in-person festival, could be changed at the last minute, as necessary, due to
unforeseen circumstances associated with Covid, and/or the festival could be
canceled at the discretion of East Central University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
We anticipate that a<b>uthors will have up
to 20 minutes </b>to present their material – this is the<b> total</b> time at the mic, including any comments you make in addition
to the presented material.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
Fiction and creative nonfiction writers are encouraged to <b>Excerpt </b>their submission to fit into the time restraints (The
appeal of a narrative may, in fact, be heightened by presenting a carefully
selected excerpt, rather than speed-reading).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
Due to the number of participants, it is not possible to accommodate scheduling
requests.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
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 DFW (in good traffic) 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*
Sessions usually consist of 3 or 4 readers per session. Authors may plan for up
to <b>20 minutes total time at the mic – including
prose, including commentary. </b>Please respect your audience and fellow
readers by diligently adhering to time restraints.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Submit by email:</b> 1) complete
contact information 2) the title of your program and the 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 3<sup>rd</sup> person).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Deadline for
submission is December 20, 2021</b>. The schedule will be announced as early
as possible, in January, and certainly by early February at the latest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Send
email submissions to: <a href="mailto:scissortailfestival@gmail.com"><b><span style="color: windowtext;">scissortailfestival@gmail.com</span></b></a>. Identify
“Scissortail Submission” in the subject line.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please
check your calendar before submitting. Participants are not charged
registration fees, nor are authors compensated. <b>Please subscribe by providing your email on this website</b><b> in order to receive notice of information regarding
the festival and related events. Updates are posted here. </b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-58641776401701760152021-11-04T14:21:00.005-05:002023-10-16T10:47:09.893-05:00Hotel Arrangements<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm3ggrRM-rE/YYQyFkwuDJI/AAAAAAAAN2s/vwZk1LgzPzI9LB4EdYFmB-0Nlf7-AhiwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s440/La%2BQuinta.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="440" height="211" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xm3ggrRM-rE/YYQyFkwuDJI/AAAAAAAAN2s/vwZk1LgzPzI9LB4EdYFmB-0Nlf7-AhiwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/La%2BQuinta.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="xmsonormal"><o:p></o:p></p>When you book your rooms, use this code "CODE SCISSORTAIL-LDSC" to get a discounted rate.<div><div><div><br /><div>You can call the hotel directly to book a room (580- 436-5000) and get the Scissortail Festival Group block rate.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please be sure to book your room early to make sure you receive the
discount.<br /></div><div><p></p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-77485933029813195872021-11-04T14:12:00.001-05:002021-11-04T14:12:19.756-05:00Scissortail Creative Writing Festival 2022 Undergraduate Creative Writing ContestPrizes: * 1st - $100 * 2nd - $75 * 3rd - $50 <br />(Plus Books & Honorable Mentions) <br /><br /><b>Guidelines:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Contest is open only to currently enrolled undergraduate students.</li><li>Eligible students are expected to attend the Festival. Recognition will occur Friday evening, April 1, 2022. (Please do not submit if you cannot attend the festival).</li><li>Submissions must be confirmed by a sponsoring faculty member.</li><li>Each institution is allowed a maximum of 5 (five entries); This includes ECU.</li><li>Each institution is responsible for selecting its contestants</li><li>Submissions are limited to one of three categories: 1) one piece of short fiction (up to 7500 words), or one piece of creative nonfiction (up to 7500 words), or up to three poems (150 lines total).</li><li>Prizes will not be designated by genre, but will be awarded for best writing.</li><li>All entries must be the original work of the student.</li><li>All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space prose entries.</li><li>Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.</li><li>No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title.</li><li>Provide separate Cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s Name; 2) Student’s email address AND mailing address 3) Faculty Member’s Name & Email address 3) Institution4) Classification 5) Phone number 6) Title of original work submitted</li><li>Submit work by email to Dr. Jennifer Dorsey at <a href="mailto:jdorsey@ecok.edu">jdorsey@ecok.edu</a>. In the subject line of your email submission, type “Scissortail Undergraduate Contest.”</li><li>Professor Dorsey will screen initial entries, then an outside judge will judge all entries that meet minimum guidelines.</li></ul><b>DEADLINE: </b>Email entries to <a href="mailto:jdorsey@ecok.edu">jdorsey@ecok.edu</a> must be received by Midnight February 20, 2022. There will be no exceptions. Recognition of writers will occur Friday April 1 as part of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival held at East Central University (March 31 - April 2, 2022). Please visit (and subscribe via email) <a href="http://www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/">www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com</a> to receive festival updates. Contact: Ken Hada, <a href="mailto:khada@ecok.edu">khada@ecok.edu</a> (580) 559-5557 for information regarding the Festival <br /><br /><b>Judge:</b> Dr. Joey Brown, Professor in English at Missouri Southern State University. Joey holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Oklahoma and a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing and American Literature from the University of Oklahoma. She teaches creative writing (and other writing courses) at MSSU. Joey writes poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in several literary journals including <i>Concho River Review, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Quiddity, storySouth</i>, and <i>San Pedro River Review</i>. She is the author of two poetry collections: <i>Oklahomaography </i>(Mongrel Empire Press), and <i>The Feral Love Poems</i> (Hungry Buzzard Press). Joey lives in Missouri with her husband, prose writer Michael Howarth, and their rescue dogs in their somewhat renovated house.<br /><br /><b>Sponsors: </b>The Undergraduate Writing Contest is sponsored by The East Central University Foundation, Inc, in partnership with THE RED EARTH MFA program from Oklahoma City University, directed by Rob Roensch. Information: <a href="http://www.okcu.edu/artsci/departments/english/redearthmfa">http://www.okcu.edu/artsci/departments/english/redearthmfa</a><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61UJatHFo1Y/YYQwYez8z6I/AAAAAAAAN2g/3Vt990YTzHc976zhCh9TgZAFkjHSviBMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s782/Red%2BEarth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="782" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-61UJatHFo1Y/YYQwYez8z6I/AAAAAAAAN2g/3Vt990YTzHc976zhCh9TgZAFkjHSviBMwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h284/Red%2BEarth.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-46512685611434123652021-08-18T10:02:00.000-05:002021-08-18T11:03:25.707-05:0018th Annual R. Darryl Fisher Creative Writing Contest<p><b style="font-size: 12pt;">East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma presents</b></p><p><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Oklahoma’s Most Prestigious High School Writing Competition</b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;font-size: medium;">Prizes to be awarded at ECU, Scissortail Festival, <b>April 2, 2022</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Fiction: 1st Place $250; 2nd Place $150; 3rd Place $100</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry: 1st Place $250; 2nd Place $150; 3rd Place $100<br />20 Honorable Mention Awards of $25 each</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><p><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: medium;">Guidelines:<br /></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* All Oklahoma high school students (9th - 12th grade) are eligible.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* Poetry (up to 100 lines) or Short Fiction (up to 6,000 words) is acceptable.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* Limit 5 poems and 1 short fiction piece per student.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* All entries must be the original work of the student.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space fiction entries.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">* Provide cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s name; 2) High School and Teacher’s name 3) Classification (senior, junior, etc.) 4) Phone number, Email <b><i>and </i>student’s mailing address (work submitted without a mailing address will not be judged).</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;font-size: medium;">* Work may be submitted through conventional mail or email<b>.</b></span></p><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-size: medium;"><b>DEADLINE: </b>Conventional mail must be postmarked on or before <b>Friday, February 11, 2022</b>. Email entries must be sent by 11:59 p.m. on February 11, 2021. There will be no exceptions. Winners will be notified and awards will be presented to students during the annual Scissortail Festival at ECU, April 2, 2022. The names of winning writers will be posted on this website..</p><p style="font-size: medium;"></p><p style="font-size: medium;"><b>Poetry Submissions</b>: send work electronically as attached files to jgrasso@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Joshua Grasso, East Central University, Dept. of English and Languages, 1100 E. 14th St., Ada, OK 74820</p><p style="font-size: medium;"><b>Fiction Submissions</b>: 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</p><p style="font-size: medium;"><b>Contest Information</b>: Dr. Joshua Grasso (580-235-3197); Dr. Mark Walling (580-559-5440). Scissortail Creative Writing Festival Information: Dr. Ken Hada (580-559-5557)</p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-4075114724762213542021-03-11T10:35:00.000-06:002021-03-11T10:35:57.724-06:0016th Annual Scissortail: The Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OrpI55zhYAs/X4HTs9WtUZI/AAAAAAAAKbc/0CgfxSbLfAA0LL5RQx88Rgg6Twlhy7KdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Scissssortail%2B21%2Bposter.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" width="900" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OrpI55zhYAs/X4HTs9WtUZI/AAAAAAAAKbc/0CgfxSbLfAA0LL5RQx88Rgg6Twlhy7KdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Scissssortail%2B21%2Bposter.jpg"/></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4371750461415154073.post-44991722940052684302021-03-11T10:34:00.001-06:002021-03-16T08:48:28.722-05:00Schedule of Live-stream Readings (all times are Central Time Zone) <b>Scissortail Creative Writing Festival: April 1, 2 & 3, 2021</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div>The Festival live stream will appear on Tiger Media*'s YouTube page: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/tigermedia">https://www.youtube.com/tigermedia</a><br /><br /></div><div>When we are live, the stream should be the most recent video option to click on.<br /><br />Thursday, April 1 <br />4:00pm - Welcome to Scissortail 2021 with Moderator / <b>Kai Coggin </b><br />6:00pm – <b>Andrew Geyer</b> <br /> <br />Friday, April 2 <br />4:00pm - <b>Tiffany Midge </b><br />6:00pm - <b>Quraysh Ali Lansana</b> <br /> <br />Saturday, April 3 <br />2:00pm - Students <br />4:00pm – <b>Barbara Crooker</b> <br />6:00pm - Author 6 / Closing out Scissortail 2021 with Moderator / <b>Octavio Quintanilla </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>*Tiger Media is a student production group at East Central University under the Art + Design : Media + Communication department in the School of Fine Arts.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0