SMU LitFest 2013

Schedule Change

David Haynes — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:31:45 +0000

We’re sad to report that Tatjana Soli will be unable to join us for Litfest this year. We hope to have her at SMU sometime in the future.

Watch this blog for an update on Friday’s schedule.

Debra Spark for ‘The Quivering Pen’

juliaruthw — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:41:40 +0000

Looking for a read on this lazy Sunday? Check out this article on the writing journey featuring LitFest author Debra Spark: Debra Spark for ‘The Quivering Pen’

Register to see Debra Spark do a reading March 21st at SMU LitFest by clicking on our Schedule & Registration link to the left.

Enjoy!

Salty Ink & Alix Ohlin

juliaruthw — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:29:29 +0000

Alix Ohlin’s Signs and Wonders gets some love from Salty Ink! Click our Scheduale & Registration link to see Alix Ohlin at LitFest!

Salty Ink on ‘Signs and Wonders’

WordSpace & LitFest & Alan Michael Parker

juliaruthw — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:01:06 +0000

Rattle has posted a great review of Alan Michael Parker’s Long Division! Check it out here

& WordSpace has a nice little writeup on LitFest up on their blog! Check that one out here

The Poems of Matthew Olzmann

juliaruthw — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:27:10 +0000

Hello LitFesters! Some of you may know that last night at SMU’s Art Spiegelman lecture we learned all about the connection between images and words. For us LitFesters we know that images can be formed within our heads as we read the words of novels and poems. Here’s a collection of some posted poems by Matthew Olzmann brimming with verbal imagery. Let’s see what your brain will conjure up!

CLICK: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/matthew+olzmann

The California Journal of Poetics on ‘The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart’

juliaruthw — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:03:57 +0000

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s ‘The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart’ is definitely beautiful and thought provoking. It had me researching the legend all around the internet. My favorite line is analyzed in this “po-chop” from The California Journal of Poetics: “Because it’s always like that. / One day, walking through a room,/ you realize what you were holding / is gone and you can’t find it, even / when you get down on your knees.”

CLICK: ‘The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart’

Registration for LitFest

juliaruthw — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:31:36 +0000

Register for LitFest!

Click this LINK to register for any and all of our LitFest events through Eventbrite. We hope to see you at LitFest!

Meet Gabrielle Calvocoressi

juliaruthw — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:07:40 +0000

Wondering about newest LitFest author Gabrielle Calvocoressi? Well get to know her as she answers a few questions for Bomblog and the Academy of American Poets.

CLICK HERE TO READ!

Alix Ohlin for the LA Review of Books

juliaruthw — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:03:26 +0000

Check it out LitFesters!

Alix Ohlin has recently posted an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books titled “Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot.” Great read for all the feminists out there and anyone looking for a well articulated and thought provoking read.

CLICK: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type&id=1381&fulltext=1&media#article-text-cutpoint

Tatjana Soli’s ‘The Forgetting Tree’

juliaruthw — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:00:37 +0000

LitFest author Tatjana Soli’s The Forgetting Tree has been placed on The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2012! She is definitely one to watch! Come hear her read March 22nd at SMU LitFest!

See The Full List Here : 100 Notable Books of 2012