Scissortail Creative Writing Festival 2021

From Dr. Ken Hada, director of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival:

We will not host an on-campus Scissortail Festival, April 2021. Instead we will produce 7 sessions of live streaming (with re-postings) of Six excellent authors with various styles and personalities, along with a session dedicated to ECU Student readers, April 1-3, 2021. 

Special Thanks to Professor Mike Maxwell, Chair of Mass Comm, and Mark Bratcher, Assistant Director of Communications, for their help with the 2021 festival!

The 17th Annual Darryl Fisher High School Contest is in progress, in conjunction with the Scissortail Festival.

Bios of the 2021 authors and other information is available at: ecuscissortail.blogspot.com

Thanks to everyone who helps with this!! More details will be coming later.

THE SCHEDULE 

Scissortail Creative Writing Festival: April 1, 2 & 3, 2021

Schedule of Live-Stream Readings (all times are Central Time Zone) 

Thursday, April 1

4:00pm - Welcome to Scissortail 2021 with Moderator / Kai Coggin

6:00pm – Andrew Geyer

Friday, April 2

4:00pm - Tiffany Midge

6:00pm - Quraysh Ali Lansana

Saturday, April 3

2:00pm – ECU Students

4:00pm – Barbara Crooker

6:00pm - Author 6 / Closing out Scissortail 2021 with Moderator / Octavio Quintanilla

Fright Fest 2020 screenings and contest!

This October, you can be part of a new ECU tradition: the 1^st Annual ECU Fright Test! This Virtual Film Festival offers 31 movies for the 31 days of October, everything from Hellraiser to Halloween! The Virtual Film Festival offers a list of all 31 films, some of which are available to rent at the Linscheid Library. Even better, three films (The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, and the 2019 Halloween) will be screened at the Ada Cinemark 8! To find out how to watch all the films, check out www.justwatch.com.

After you get a few films under your belt, the Virtual Film Fest challenges you to write about your near-death experiences! Write an analytical essay (you know, the kind you normally write in English and Humanities courses) about one of the films on the list and submit it to ecuenglishandlanguages@ecok.edu OR e-mail or turn in a hard copy to any English professor you see on the third floor. The Virtual Film Fest will award prizes to the top three entries. For more information about the contest or any questions, please e-mail the English department at the address above.