7th Annual Literary Festival and High School Writing Contest.
Submit your best poetry or fiction for consideration in the High School Writing Contest. Entries limited to five pages per student.
Prizes:
1st- $1000 Millikin University Scholarship
2nd- $750 Millikin University Scholarship
3rd- $500 Millikin University Scholarship
7th 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 13
7:30 PM
Reading by Jennifer Epstein (Pilling Chapel)
8:30 PM
Collage Reading (Pilling Chapel)
Saturday, November 14
10 AM - 12:30 PM
Writing Workshops:
Poetry Workshop (Shilling 315)
Fiction Workshop (Shilling 316)
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Panel: Fiction Craft Lecture
with Jennifer Epstein (Pilling Chapel)
2:30 - 3 PM
Refreshments
3 - 4:30 PM
Panel: Poetry Craft Lecture
with Allison Joseph (Pilling Chapel)
4:30 - 5 PM
Refreshments
5 - 6 PM
Reading: Millikin Faculty & Friends
7:30 - 9 PM
Reading by Allison Joseph
Closing Remarks
Featured Writers:
Allison Joseph (poetry)
What Keeps Us Here
Jennifer Epstein (fiction)
The Painter from Shanghai
Faculty Writers:
Carmella Braniger
No One May Follow
Randy Brooks
School’s Out
Carmen Aravena
Circulo de Migas/ Circle of Crumbs
Stephen Frech
If Not For These Wrinkles of Darkness