Sunday, March 20, 2022

2022: Schedule of Readings

17th Annual: Scissortail Creative Writing Festival
March 31 - April 2, 2022

East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma

Thursday, March 31

I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium

Joey Brown: Missouri Southern State University
Feral Love in Skateland
Rilla Askew: University of Oklahoma
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Dave Malone: West Plains, Missouri
Tornado Drills and Hitchhiking Skills

II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium

Robin Carstensen: Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
Selected New Poems
Chris Murphy: Northeastern State University
from Burning All the Time
Molly Sizer: Lawton, Oklahoma
The World and the Refuge

III. 11:00 - 12:15 Regents Room

Jeffrey Alfier: Torrance, California
The Shadow Field, and other poems
Denise Tolan: San Antonio, Texas
Because You Are Dead, and other flash fiction
Gary Reddin: Duncan, Oklahoma
An Abridged History of American Violence

IV. 11:00 – 12:15 North Lounge

Ron Wallace: Southeastern Oklahoma State U.
from Sanctuary
Leah Chaffins: Cameron University
Mountain Kings & other poems
Clarence Wolfshohl: Toledo, Missouri
Family Resemblance

*** Lunch ***

V. 2:15 – 3: 45 Estep Auditorium

Cullen Whisenhunt: Eastern OK. State College
Among the Trees
Jordan Mackey: Duncan, Oklahoma
No Longer Nameless
Brady Peterson: Belton, Texas
At the Edge of Town
Lyman Grant: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Found Poems and Weather Reports

VI. 2:15 – 3:45 Regents Room

Gary Worth Moody: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wild Horses
Yvonne Carpenter: Arapaho, Oklahoma
Worm Moon, and other poems
Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue: Fort Worth, TX
What I Did Not Tell You
Keely Record: Tulsa, Oklahoma
What I've Seen

VII. 2:15 – 3:45 North Lounge

Paul Bowers: Northern Oklahoma College
from Ten Acres of the Universe
Ann Weisman: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Elementals
Alan Gann: Dallas, Texas
Better Ways to See
Ky George: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Communion, and other poems

VIII. 4:00 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium

Tom Murphy: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Pleiades, and other poems
Joan Canby: Garland, Texas
Selected poems

IX. 4:00 – 4:45 Regents Room

Alan Berecka: Del Mar College
Regret of First Memories, and other poems
Bertha Wise: Oklahoma City, OK
First Truth, and other poems

X. 7:00 – 8:30 Estep Auditorium

Featuring: Lou Berney
(Authors’ Reception – Polo’s Restaurant)


Friday, April 1

XI. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium

Jessica Isaacs: Seminole State College
The Deer in the Corn
Neal Ostman: Colleyville, Texas
Earthman - Boondocking

XII. 9:00 - 9:50 Regents Room

Markham Johnson: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dear Dreamland, and other poems
Sally Rhoades: Albany, New York
Greeted by Wildflowers

XIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium

Maureen DuRant: Lawton, Oklahoma
I Knew Better, but Nevertheless
Mark Allen Jenkins: Houston, Texas
Zanesville & Western

XIV. 10:00 – 10:50 Regents Room

Chris Ellery: San Angelo, Texas
Nine Nights in Pieria
Amy (Huichun) Liang: University of Missouri
Autumn, Presencing – a bilingual poetry reading

XV. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge

Shaun Perkins: Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Schooled
John Morris: Cameron University
The Strongest Song, and other poems

XVI. 11:00 – 12:15 Estep Auditorium

Heather Levy: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
from Walking Through Needles
Haesong Kwon: Louisville, Kentucky
New and Selected poems
Vivian Nida/Terri Cummings: Oklahoma City
Two Voice Poems

XVII. 11:00 – 12:15 Regents Room

Sarah Webb: Burnet, Texas
The Door Into Night
Walter Bargen: Ashland, Missouri
Transcendental Goat Philosophy/You Wounded Miracle
Daniel Marroquin: Killeen, Texas
Coach and Camilla

XVIII. 11:00 -12:15 North Lounge

Bill McCloud: Rogers State University
A Charming Little Hurt
Carol Coffee Reposa: San Antonio, Texas
To Berlin and Back: A Covid-19 Long Shot
Phil Morgan: Blanchard, Oklahoma
Where the Winter is Purple and Gray

*** Lunch ***

XIX. 2:15 – 3:45 Estep Auditorium

Robert L. Dean, Jr: Augusta, Kansas
Pulp and After-Pulp
Sharon Martin: Oilton, Oklahoma
The Courage to Speak
Marc DiPaolo: Southwestern Oklahoma State U.
from Fake Italian
Richard Dixon: Oklahoma City, OK
Paul Simon Blows Away the Room

XX. 2:15 -3:45 Regents Room

Hank Jones: Tarleton State University
After Waking in Darkness
Abigale Mazzo: University of Tulsa
The Affair
Todd Fuller: University of Oklahoma
64 Steps of Doom
Christopher Soden: Dallas, Texas
Bones to Light

XXI. 7:00 – 8:30 pm Estep Auditorium

Featuring: Arthur Sze

Recognition of Undergraduate Writers
(Reception for Authors, Guests & Students:
Ross-Osborn Family Foundation Event Center)

Saturday, April 2

XXII. 9:00 – 10:15 Estep Auditorium

Rob Roensch: Oklahoma City University
Unalaska
Mary Gray: Oklahoma City, OK
Who Do You Think You Are?
Paul Juhasz: Seminole State College
from Ronin

XXIII. 9:00 – 10:15 Regents Room

Michael Dooley: Tarleton State University
Go West, Young Longhair, Go West
Ann Howells: Dallas, Texas
from So Long as We Speak Their Names
Paul Austin: Norman, Oklahoma
This is Me

XXIV. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium

Michael Howarth: Missouri Southern State Univ
A Still and Awful Red
Julie Chappell: Cleveland, Oklahoma
Contrary Qualities of Elements
Dorothy Alexander: Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Art of Memory: Field Notes of an Octogenarian

XXV. 10:30 -11:45 Regents Room

Andrew Geyer: USC - Aiken
A Walk Beyond the Moon
Maryann Hurtt: Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Of Peonies and Murderous Doings
Ben Myers: Oklahoma Baptist University
Ambition

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

Grand Finale, Featuring:
Jennifer Givhan


Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher
State High School Contest Winners

Click here and here for Bios of all Authors.

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