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:

1^st- $1000 Millikin University Scholarship

2^nd- $750 Millikin University Scholarship

3^rd- $500 Millikin University Scholarship

7^th 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