UCA student reading in the grand foyer of Thompson Hall from 1 - 3 p.m.

Reception & Faculty Reading at the Conway Country Club from 7 - 9 p.m.

Faculty from UCA's Department of Writing will read aloud from their own creative work in the grand foyer of Thompson Hall from 1:30 - 3 p.m.

Craft talk at 11 a.m. in Thompson 331
Public reading at 2 p.m. in the grand foyer of Thompson Hall

Craft talk at 10:50 a.m. in Thompson 331
Public reading at 1:40 p.m. in the grand foyer of Thompson Hall

Craft talk at 10 a.m. in Thompson 331
Public reading at 1 p.m. in the grand foyer of Thompson Hall

Contributors to Arkansas's newest, most cutting-edge lit journal will read from what was once the Exquisite Corpse Annual.  Readers include Thomas Cochran, Terry Wright, Frank Thurmond, Tim Thornes for Roy Trask, and more to be announced at toadsuckreview.org. T-shirts, books by contributors and editors, and fresh-off-the-press copies of TSR #2 (featuring Charles Bukowski, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, and more more more!) will be on sale during this historic event at Lewis Science Center 102 at 8:00 pm on the UCA campus, with a reception to follow at the Bear’s Den (9:30 pm, 235 Farris Rd.). For further details contact Editor in Chief Mark Spitzer at toaksuckreview@gmail.com or (501) 450-3339.

The annual ArkaText Literary Festival features writers who reside in or have ties to the Natural State.  These visiting writers give public readings and conduct master classes with UCA writing students as part of the week-long festival.  A short list of past ArkaText participants includes: Marck L. Beggs, Jennifer Christman, Jimmy Cheffen, Dusty Higgins, Tyrone Jaeger, David Jauss, Sandy Longhorn, Philip Martin, Michael Karl Ritchie, W. Clayton Scott, Keith “Catfish” Sutton, Werner  Trieschmann, Thomas Williams, and others.