2020: Schedule of Readings

15^th Annual: Scissortail Creative Writing Festival

April 2-4, 2020

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, April 2

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium 

Rebecca Hatcher Travis: Sulphur, Oklahoma

Through My Eyes

Chris Murphy: Northeastern State University

and the creek: flash fiction

Ann Howells: Carrollton, Texas

So Longs As We Speak Their Names

Cullen Whisenhunt: SEOSU

Bent Branches

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Jeff Alfier: Torrance, California

Gone This Long & other poems

Julie Chappell: Cleveland, Oklahoma

Helicopters, Butterflies, & Other Apparitions

Mark Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Postcards for the Dead

Loretta Diane Walker: Odessa, Texas

How I Learned to Swallow Light

*** Lunch Break ***

III. 2:00 – 3:00 North Lounge

Paul Bowers: Northern Oklahoma College

Tempus

Bill McCloud: Rogers State University
The War is Over (the war will never end)

Amy (Huichun) Liang: University of Missouri

Autumn, Presencing

IV. 2:00 – 3:00 Estep Auditorium

William Peter Grasso: Tulsa, Oklahoma

War Has No Gender

Melina Maloukis: Lawton, Oklahoma

Blue Heron by Midnight

John Morris: Cameron University

Anticipation of an Early Morning April Saunter

V. 3:15 – 4:30 Estep Auditorium

Robert Roensch: Oklahoma City University

The World and the Zoo

Alan Berecka: Del Mar College

The Great Escape & other poems

Amanda Bales: University of Illinois

Oklahoma Women Diaspora: Poems and Microfictions

Michelle Hartman: Ft. Worth, Texas

For What It’s Worth

VI. 7:00 – 8:30 Estep Auditorium

featuring: Barbara Crooker

Friday, April 3

VII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

Alan Gann: Dallas, Texas

The Storm King Collection

Kay Emmert: University of Illinois

This Secret Searching: The Land as a Link Between Us

Ron Wallace: Durant, Oklahoma

Sanctuary

VIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Gary Reddin: Duncan, Oklahoma

An Abridged History of American Violence

Lyman Grant: Harrisonburg, Virginia

Found Poems and Weather Reports

Ann Weisman: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Speaking Up

IX. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Roxie Faulkner Kirk: Morris, Oklahoma

Okie Boys

Bill Endres: University of Oklahoma

Graveyard of Lost Ideas

Leah Chaffins: Cameron University

Mountain Kings & other poems

X. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium

Michael Dooley: Tarleton State University

An Old, Brown Fedora

Rilla Askew: University of Oklahoma

Millennium

Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas

Poems that Change the World

XI. 11: - 11:50 North Lounge

Charlotte Renk: Athens, Texas
Fires She Couldn't Put Out
Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue: Fort Worth, Texas
What I Did Not Tell You
Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma
From the Ground Up

*** Lunch Break ***

XII. 2:00 – 3:15 North Lounge

Joey Brown: Missouri Southern State University
Content Subject to Change

George Perreault: Reno, Nevada

Four Funerals and a Wedding

Emily Blackshear: Oklahoma State University

When You Have Nothing

Walter Bargen: Ashland, Missouri

Until Next Time

XIII. 2:00 -3:15 Estep Auditorium

Randy Prus: Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ.

Word, Trees 21

Sandra Soli: Edmond, Oklahoma

Glimpses of History: A Few Digressions

Clarence Wolfshohl: Toledo, Missouri

Armadillos, Groundhogs & Other Neighbors

Ashley Brown: Wimberley, Texas

Letters to the Daughter I'll Never Have

XIV. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Dorothy Alexander: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Reflections on the Cosmos, Nature, History,

Humanity and Other Stuff

Denise Tolan: San Antonio, Texas

Readings in a Flash

Robert Dean: Augusta, Kansas

The Aerialist will not be Performing

Nathan Brown: Wimberley, Texas

Just Another Honeymoon in France

XV. 7:00 Estep Auditorium 

featuring: Lou Berney

Recognition of Undergraduate Writers

(Open Mic to follow in North Lounge)

Saturday, April 4

XVI. 9:00– 10:15 Estep Auditorium

Sally Rhoades: Albany, New York

Rodeo Girl

Don Stinson: Northern Oklahoma College

Poems from Hunger

Paul Juhasz: Oklahoma City, OK

Beard and Other Poems

Heather Levy: Oklahoma City, OK

You Should Smile More: The Blood Coven of Arkana

XVII. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium

Larry D. Thomas: Las Cruces, New Mexico

In a Field of Cotton: Mississippi River Delta Poems

Maureen DuRant: Lawton, Oklahoma

I Knew Better, but Nevertheless

Jason Poudrier: University of Oklahoma

Stewy

Jessica Isaacs: Seminole State College

Spell, Ritual, and Other New Works

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

Grand Finale:

featuring: Octavio Quintanilla

Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher

State High School Contest Winners

Click here for Bios of all Authors