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 2007 Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards are James Kimbrell (Poetry) and Kerry Neville Bakken (prose). They read from their works as a part of the three day Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival.
2007 Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival Schedule
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25
-- All readings will take place in the Student Center Auditorium --
8:00 - 9:00 pm Readings by Mary Jo Firth Gillett & Wendy Rawlings
9:00 - 10:00 pm Festival Reception (Sponsored by the SIUC Dept.. of English) in the Student Center J. W. Corker Lounge
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
-- Panel Discussions, Student Center Auditorium --
10:00 - 10:50 am Poetry Panel featuring Betty Adcock, Mary Jo Firth Gillett, Patricia Spears Jones, James Kimbrell, & Simone Muench
11:00 - 11:50 am Fiction Panel featuring Kerry Neville Bakken, Dale Ray Phillips, & Wendy Rawlings
2:00 - 3:00 pm Readings by Simone Muench & Betty Adcock
3:15 - 4:30 pm Reception and Booksigning featuring all festival readers in the Student Center Old Main Lounge
5:00 - 6:00 pm Readings by James Kimbrell & Kerry Neville Bakken
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
11:00 - 12:15 am Readings from the new anthology SURREAL SOUTH
2:00 - 3:00 pm Readings by Patricia Spears Jones & Dale Ray Phillips
Here is a list of the visiting writers from past Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festivals:
2002 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Joelle Biele
Beth Ann Fennelly
Tom Franklin
Bob Hicok
Cate Marvin
Elizabeth McCracken
Michael Perry
Kevin Prufer
Elwood Reid
Bill Roorbach
2003 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Michelle Boisseau
Dan Chaon
Chad Davidson
Paul Guest
Laura Kasischke
Steve Lattimore
Adrian Matejka
Padgett Powell
Natasha Trethewey
2004 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Josh Bell
Robert David Clark
Amy Fleury
Rigoberto González
Anthony Grooms
Richard Jackson
Davis McCombs
Margaret McMullan
Ken Smith
Jean Thompson
2005 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Dean Bakopoulos
Tayari Jones
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Benjamin Percy
James Richardson (DK Poetry Reading Award)
Jason Sommer
Mary Troy (DK Prose Reading Award)
Rebecca Wee
David Wright
2006 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Kevin Brockmeier
Susanna Childress (DK Poetry Reading Award)
Amanda Filipacchi (DK Poetry Reading Award)
Lamar Herrin
Jennifer Maier
Donald Platt
Roxana Robinson
Crystal Williams
2007 Devil’s Kitchen Fall Literary Festival
Betty Adcock
Kerry Neville Bakken (DK Prose Reading Award)
Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Patricia Spears Jones
James Kimbrell (DK Poetry Reading Award)
Simone Muench
Dale Ray Phillips
Wendy Rawlings
Contact the editors at : Grassrootsmag@gmail.com
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