Tulsa LitFest Schedule

Wednesday, April 22

7 p.m. Pre-LitFest Literary Trivia at Heirloom Rustic Ales

Thursday, April 23

6 p.m. Write With Your Eyes: An Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Stephanie Choi at TCC McKeon Center for Creativity

8 p.m. Opening Night Mixer with Morgan Talty and Stevie "Dr. View" Johnson, Presented by TU and NYU Tulsa at 101 Archer St.

Friday, April 24

2:30 p.m. Publishing  Mythbusters with NYU's M.S. Publishing Experts, Presented by NYU Tulsa at Center for Public Secrets

3:30 p.m. Screening of The Librarians, A Documentary about Banned Books with Kolby Webster at Center for Public Secrets

5 p.m. Seventeen Syllables in English: A Haiku Workshop with Quinn Carver Johnson at Center for Public Secrets

6:30 p.m. Writing the Environment: A Reading about  Appreciating and Protecting the World Outside with Ken Hada, Daniela  Naomi Molnar, Jasminé Elizabeth Smith and Tim Tomlinson at Center for Public Secrets

8:30 p.m. Blood on the Red Dirt: A Screening of OK Horror Short Films featuring work by Directors Zach Litwack, Justin Jayne, Dylan Cole Black, Cary Cody and Andrew Bateman at Center for Public Secrets

10 p.m. "Why Horror, Why Now?" Discussion of Blood on the Red Dirt Films with Filmmaker, Hosted by James Cooper and Mitch Hull at Center for Public Secrets

Saturday, April 25

9:30 a.m. Publishing from the Ground Up, A Panel Discussion Promoting Translation and Building Readerly Communities with Boris Dralyuk, Will Evans, Shook, Daniel Simon and Matt Carney at TAF Flagship

10 a.m. Children's Lit Reading with Alton Carter, Betty Casey and Jennifer Riem at Magic City Books

11 a.m. Making Your Own Pigment with Daniela Naomi Molnar at OSU-Tulsa Helmerich Research Center Atrium (Registration for this event is full.)

11:30 a.m. Wrestling the Writing Together with Donald Quist and Bailey Gaylin Moore at Magic City Books

1 p.m. Level  Up: A Conversation about Growing the Film Community with Jessi McEver, Dylan Brodie, Zach Litwack, Liz Blood, Hank Byrd and Colleen Thurston at OSU-Tulsa Helmerich Research Center Room 117

1 p.m. "Adulting for Amatuers" with Jess Gutierrez at Magic City Books

2:30 p.m. Reflections on the Watch Face: A Reading of Time and Memory with Paul Juhasz, Donald Quist and Bailey Gaylin Moore at Magic City Books

4:30 p.m. Resilience Through Ash: Writing about Greenwood with Rilla Askew, Jasminé Elizabeth Smith and Randy Krehbiel at Greenwood Rising

6 p.m. Wild World, Wild Words: Keynote Address with Ken Hada and Daniela Naomi Molnar at Helmerich Research Center Atrium (Sponsored by Tulsa Review)

8:30 p.m. Haiku Battle MMXXVI with Quinn Carver Johnson at Good Cause Brewing

Sunday, April 26

10 a.m. The Short Story: Conventions and Innovations with Tim Tomlinson at  OSU-Tulsa Main Hall 1307

11 a.m.-2 p.m. LitFest Book Fair with over 75 Local Authors and Presses at OSU-Tulsa Main Hall Commons

1:30 p.m. An Afternoon with Tayari Jones at Magic City Books

3 p.m. Writers Recess Reading with Damion Shade, Nicholas Claro, Liz Blood, Joy Clark, Portlyn Houghton-Harjo and Karl Jones, Hosted by Cassidy McCants at Pershing Studios

5 p.m. Closing Night Festivities with music by Damion Shade and a reading from Sarah Thankam Mathews, hosted by NYU Tulsa at Chimera