ETSU Spring Literary Festival
Our schedule is coming soon! Check back to plan your visit.
All daytime events of the festival will take place in the Reece Museum.
Here is our 2025 schedule for reference.
Tuesday, April 22
7:00 PM: Join us for a special Lit Fest kickoff event as we launch the new novel,
Streets of Nashville, from our colleague Dr. Michael Cody.
Hosted by Atlas Books at The Generalist. Reading and Q & A, with book signing to follow.
Wednesday, April 23
10:30-11:20: Welcome and Introductions, Student Winners of The Mockingbird Awards
with editors Erika Perez Cortazar and Briana Presley
11:30-12:20: New Writing from ETSU, featuring Amy Wright and Megan Krupa
LUNCH BREAK
1:40-3:00: Poetry Writing, with Gaylord Brewer
3:10-4:30: Fiction Writing, with Carter Sickels
Thursday, April 24
10:15-11:45: Public Reading and Q&A with Carter Sickels, Erika Howsare, and Gaylord
Brewer
LUNCH BREAK
1:20-2:40: Nonfiction Writing, with Erika Howsare
3:00- 4:00: Conversation with Helena María Viramontes, Felipe Fiuza, and Jesse Graves
7:00 PM: 11th Annual Jack Higgs Memorial Reading featuring keynote speaker Helena
María Viramontes. Public Reading and Audience Q&A. East Tennessee Room, Culp 272.
The Jack Higgs Memorial Reading will be in the East Tennessee Room, Culp 272.