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Millikin University - Decatur, IL
November 4 & 5, 2011 
Millikin University > Literary Festival

9th Annual Literary Festival and High School Writing Contest.

 

Prizes:

1st- $1000 Millikin University Scholarship

2nd- $750 Millikin University Scholarship

3rd- $500 Millikin University Scholarship

 

9th Annual Literary Festival
Come write with the pros. Read poems, short stories, novels and essays with some of today’s leading writers. Join a workshop for feedback on your own work. Have fun with words!

 

 

Friday, November 4

7:30 PM

Reading by Karen Boren
(Pilling Chapel)

 

8:30 PM

Collage Reading
(Pilling Chapel)

 

Saturday, November 5

10 AM - 12:30 PM
Writing Workshops:

Poetry Workshop (Shilling 315)

Fiction Workshop (Shilling 316)

 

1:30 - 2:15 PM           

Panel: Fiction Craft Lecture

with Karen Boren (Pilling Chapel)      

 

2:15 - 2:30 PM                

Refreshments

 

2:30 - 3:15 PM                     

Panel: Poetry Craft Lecture
with Jennifer Sweeney (Pilling Chapel)

 

3:15 - 3:30 PM                

Refreshments

3:30 - 4:30 PM
Reading - Millikin Faculty and Friends

4:30- 6 PM
Reading by Jennifer Sweeney

Closing remarks

Featured Writers:

Karen Lee Boren (fiction)
Girls in Peril


Jennifer Sweeney (poetry)
How to Live on Bread and Music 



Faculty Writers:

Stephen Frech
If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness

Carmen Aravena
Circulo de Migas/ Circle of Crumbs

Randy Brooks
School's Out

Carmella Braniger
No One May Follow

 

 
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
 
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Millikin University - Decatur, IL