Scissortail Creative Writing Festival
Estep Multimedia Center, Bill S. Cole University
& North Lounge, Memorial Student Union
Thursday, April 5
I. 9:30 – 10: 45 Estep Auditorium
Jason Poudrier - Cameron University Pvt Pau & We All Had Our Wives
Terri Cummings – Nichols Hills, Oklahoma Voyeur
Alan Gann – Dallas, Texas Field Notes: Love, Politics & Movie Musicals
II. 11:00 – 12: 15 Estep Auditorium
Don Stinson – Northern Oklahoma College, from Flatline Horizon
Gay Pasley – Edmond, Oklahoma, Fact Finding
John Yozzo – Tulsa, Oklahoma, for havin' gotten rid of me: love-lyrics Flip-side B: all the goodbyes
*** Lunch ***
III. 2:00 – 3: 20 North Lounge
Hank Jones – Tarleton State University, A Rash of Poetry
Dorothy Alexander – Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nevertheless: The Art of Persistence
Christopher Soden – Dallas, Texas. Little Bird
Bill McCloud – Pryor, Oklahoma, Recovering the Rhythm of War
IV. 2:00 – 3:20 Estep Auditorium
Margaret Dornaus – Ozark, Arkansas, For My Ancestors
Aaron Glover – Dallas, Texas, They Say the Plains are Lonely
Laurence Musgrove – Angelo State University, One Kind of Recording
Daniel Miller – Amarillo, Texas, To Shoot a Rattlesnake
V. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium
Ann Howells – Carrollton, Texas, Softly Beating Wings
Gary Worth Moody – Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lolita, The Bird and the Black-Tongued Dog
Rebecca Hatcher Travis – Sulphur, Oklahoma, from Constant Fires
Roy Beckemeyer – Wichita, Kansas, Amanuensis Angel
VI. 7:00 – 8:15 Estep Auditorium
Carol Coffee Reposa – San Antonio, Texas, In Oklahoma & other poems
Andrew Geyer – Univ. of South Carolina-Aiken, Tangled Up in Blue
Robin Carstensen –Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, Poetry: Histories and Wars
Alan Berecka – Del Mar College, Finally, The Hamlet of Stittville
(Authors’ Reception TBA)
Friday, April 6
VII. 9:00 – 9:50 Estep Auditorium
William Peter Grasso –Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Our Ally, Our Enemy
Maureen DuRant – Cameron University, Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border
Brady Peterson – Belton, Texas, García Lorca Is Somewhere in Produce.
VIII. 10:00 – 10:50 Estep Auditorium
Eddie Malone – University of Oklahoma, The Healing Project
Rilla Askew – University of Oklahoma, They Live Meanly Here
IX. 10:00 – 10:50 North Lounge
Larry D. Thomas – Las Cruces, New Mexico, The Innkeeper
Roxie Faulkner Kirk - Morris, Oklahoma, from Save Yourself
X. 11:00 – 11:50 North Lounge
Michael Dooley – Tarleton State University, Drowning the Monsters
Joey Brown - Missouri Southern State Univ., Content Subject to Change
Chris Murphy – Northeastern State University, Roscoe & flash fiction
XI. 11:00 – 11:50 Estep Auditorium
Paul Juhasz – Allentown, Pennsylvania, Proxy
Michelle Hartman – Ft. Worth, Texas, from Doors
Richard Dixon – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Leaving Home
*** Lunch ***
XII. 2:00 – 3:20 North Lounge
Sally Rhoades – Albany, New York, Don’t Put Plastic Flowers on My Grave
Thomas Murphy- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, The Barron Park Diwan
Yvonne Carpenter – Clinton, Oklahoma, Poems from the Prairie
Preston Marshall – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from Regicide
XIII. 2:00 -3:20 Estep Auditorium
John Morris – Cameron University, Selflessly Through the End of the Steps
Sarah Webb – Burnet, Texas, Red Riding Hood’s Sister
Clarence Wolfshohl – Fulton, Missouri, from Queries and Wonderments
Robert Dean Jr. – Augusta, Kansas, At the Lake with Heisenberg
XIV. 3:30 – 4:45 Estep Auditorium
Sly Alley – Tecumseh, Oklahoma, That Good Medicine & other poems
Cindy Huyser – Austin, Texas, Siren Hours
Chris Ellery – Angelo State University, America Is Having an Existential Crisis
Ron Wallace – Southeastern Ok State U., from Renegade
XV. 7:00 Estep Auditorium
Featuring George Bilgere
Saturday, April 7
XVI. 9:00– 10:15 Estep Auditorium
Nathan Brown – Wimberley, Texas, An Honest Day’s Confession
Michael Howarth – Missouri Southern State U., A Scoundrel Looks at Forty
Maryann Hurtt – Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, How My Heart Learned to Bleed Orange
Paul Austin – Norman, Oklahoma, Notes for Hard Times
XVII. 10:30 -11:45 Estep Auditorium
Abigail Keegan – Oklahoma City University, I Could Turn and Live with Animals
Simon Han – Tulsa, Oklahoma, The Impossible Task of Remembering the Nanking Massacre
Julie Chappell – Tarleton State University, Cairns, Cigars, and the Blues
Paul Bowers – Northern Oklahoma College, Quiet and Loud
XVIII. 12:00 – 1:00 pm Estep Auditorium
Grand Finale: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
* Awarding the Dr. Darryl Fisher State High School Contest Winners
See: www.ecuscissortail.blogspot.com for Bios of all Authors, and other details
Operation: Mozart
Estep Multimedia Center
4 p.m.
• Musical performances by ECU faculty & students featuring the ECU Chorale
• “Amadeus: The Lines vs. The Letters" a lecture by Dr. Joshua Grasso
6:30 p.m.
• A Taste of Germany served by NAfME, $6 a plate
7:30 p.m.
• “Amadeus” $10 General Admission Free for ECU Students