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The Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival is an annual three-day festival feauring readings, panels, and book signings by writers from across the nation. The festival is held on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is sponsored by Grassroots, SIUC's undergraduate literary magazine.

Grassroots also sponsors the annual Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards in Poetry and Prose. These awards recognize one poet and one prose writer (fiction or literary nonfiction) for a collection of work, a novel, or memoir published in the preceding year.

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