Grassroots Website at SIUC

The purpose of GRASSROOTS is to provide undergraduate students
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale with the chance to
publish their literary efforts. Our staff will evaluate various
works of Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry and publish
the very best of them.

The Editors - Fall 09 - Spring 10

Sam Holley
Amy McKenzie
Mary Meadows

For current submission information to Grassroots, please see the last page of the current Grassroots, email us at Grassrootsmag@gmail.com, or stop by our office in Faner 2226

Grassroots sponsors the annual Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

The Winners of the 2009 Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards are David Kirby (Poetry) and Donald Ray Pollock (prose). They read from their works as a part of the three day Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival.

Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards 2010 Submission Guidelines

2009 Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, October 29 – 31

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

8:00 – 9:15 p.m.
Readings by Sebastian Agudelo & Fred Leebron
Student Center Auditorium

9:15 – 10:00 p.m.
Festival Reception (sponsored by the SIUC Dept. of English)
Student Center J.W. Corker Lounge

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

— panel discussions, Student Center Auditorium —

10:00 – 10:50 a.m.
Poetry Panel featuring Sebastian Agudelo, Eugene Gloria, David Kirby, & William Notter

11:00 – 11:50 a.m.
Fiction Panel featuring Jane Alison, Fred Leebron, L.E. Miller, & Donald Ray Pollock

2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Readings by William Notter & L.E. Miller
Student Center Auditorium

3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Reception and Booksigning featuring all festival readers
Student Center Old Main Lounge

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Readings by Donald Ray Pollock & David Kirby
Student Center Auditorium

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Readings from the new CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, “Color Wheel: Cultural Heritages in the 21st Century”
Student Center Auditorium

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Readings by Eugene Gloria & Jane Alison
Student Center Auditorium

The festival is sponsored by GRASSROOTS, the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of English’s undergraduate literary magazine. The Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival is made possible through funding from the SIUC Fine Arts Activity Fee, the SIUC Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series, and CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW.

Contact the editors at : Grassrootsmag@gmail.com