2013 Scissortail: Schedule of Readings

Scissortail Creative Writing Festival

8^th Annual: April 4 – 6, 2013

East Central University – Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, April 4

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium

Jason Poudrier – Rush Springs, Oklahoma

Dream Song Delta 1- 39

John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stealing Water & Other Postmarital Diversions

Mary Kay Zuravleff – Washington DC

The Bowl Is Already Broken

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Andrew Geyer – University of South Carolina

Lament for a Larcenist

Ben Myers – Oklahoma Baptist University

from Lapse Americana: New Poems

Rilla Askew – Hartshorne, Oklahoma

Kind of Kin

*** Lunch ***

III. 2:00 – 3: 30 North Lounge

Sandra Soli – Edmond, Oklahoma

Journeys: On/Off the Map

Paul Austin – Hartshorne, Oklahoma

Listening to Schubert

Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University

Faultlines

Kelli Mcbride – Seminole State College

Flies and Screwdrivers

IV. 2:00 – 3:30 Estep Auditorium

Carol Hamilton – Midwest City, Oklahoma

Of Trains and Other Travel

Joey Brown – Loma Linda, Missouri

We Got a Guy for That

Jim Wilson –Seminole State College

A Study in Gray

Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, MO

In Harm’s Way: Poems of Childhood

V. 3:45 – 5:15 Estep Auditorium

Dorothy Alexander – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Lost Art of Dictation

Brent Newsom– Oklahoma Baptist University

Smyrna Poems

A. J. Tierney – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stuck Like This Forever

Hugh Tribbey - East Central University

EF Zero

VI. 3:45 – 5:15 North Lounge

Jennifer Kidney – Norman, Oklahoma
The Road to the River
Maureen DuRant – Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Cautionary Tales
Brandon Hobson – Oklahoma State University
Awenasa
Matt Randall – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Words Parading Through Open Windows

VII. 7:00 – Estep Auditorium

Featuring Andrew Hudgins

(Author Reception to Follow)

Friday, April 5

VIII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

John Morris – Cameron University

Unwritten Histories

Stephanie Franklin – Tulsa, Oklahoma

For the Last Time & other poems

IX. 9:00 – 9:50 North Lounge

Susan Gardner – Santa Fe, New Mexico

To Inhabit the Felt World

Ron Wallace – Durant, Oklahoma

Cowboys and Cantos

X. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Terri Tucker – Uvalde, Texas

Back in the Day:1965

Nathan Brown – University of Oklahoma

Voices from the Southwest

XI. 10:00 -10:50 Estep Auditorium

Hardy Jones – Cameron University

Price of Dry Fish

Timothy Bradford - Oklahoma State University

The Winter Velodrome

XII. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Featuring Anna Myers

*** Lunch ***

XIII. 2:00 – 3:30 North Lounge

J.C. “Johnie Catfish” Mahan – Edmond, OK

Broken Prose with Unrhymed Lines

Richard Dixon – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Travel Trailings

James Brubaker – Oklahoma State University

Sound + Vision: 4 Stories About Pop Culture

Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas

Empty/Full

XIV. 2:00 -3:30 Estep Auditorium

Bayard Godsave – Cameron University

Tell Me About Your Brother

Dan Wilcox – Albany, New York

Abodes of Albany & other poems

Steven Schroeder – Chicago, Illinois

& Regina Schroeder – Boston, Ma

Seven Sorrows

Jim Spurr – Shawnee, Oklahoma

Film Noir to the Rescue

XV. 3:45 – 5:15 Estep Auditorium

Larry Thomas – Alpine, TX

Uncle Ernest

Elizabeth Raby – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ransomed Voices

Christian Morgan – Seminole State College

King Snake

Karen Eileen Sisk – Oklahoma State University

In a Glass Casket

XVI. 3:45 – 5:15 North Lounge

Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas

Smoothing the Edges

Phil Estes – Oklahoma State University

Adventure

Arn Henderson – University of Oklahoma

The Quadrants of Grief

  Jeanetta Calhoun Mish – Albuquerque, NM

How We Became White

XVII. 7:00 Estep Auditorium

Featuring Constance Squires

Page One Literary Art Gallery

(Ada Arts & Heritage Center)

Saturday, April 6

XVIII. 9:15 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium

Jessica Isaacs – Seminole State College

Darkling Requiem

George McCormick – Cameron University

Salton Sea

Jennifer Luckenbill – Grapevine, Texas

The Song of the House

Alan Berecka – Del Mar College

As of Yet, No Working Title

XIX. 9:15 -10:45 North Lounge

Rayshell Clapper – Seminole State College

Response to a Mother’s Letter

Haesong Kwon – Oklahoma State University

Not Dixie and other poems

Audell Shelburne – Northeastern State University

Water from Rocks

Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, AR
Rengay

XX. 11:00 – 12:00 Estep Auditorium

Grand Finale: Featuring Walter Bargen

(Fisher High School Contest Winners)