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.

Lauren Lamb
Krishna Pattisapu
Kathleen Richards

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 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.

Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards 2008 Submission Guidelines

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

 

Contact the editors at : Grassrootsmag@gmail.com