Featuring: Shaine Hailey, Yokochi Bare, and Lauren Gottshall  

Featuring: Brendan Slocumb (Violin Conspiracy), Rosalyn Story, Deborah Crombie (A Killing of Innocents), and Jerry Hawkins, Moderator.

The Boulevard Bulletin @boulevardbulletinsmu is an Instagram satirical magazine started in 2021 by a group of SMU undergraduates. The Boulevard Bulletin is a Student Organization open to any SMU student. They hold brainstorming sessions each month, generating ideas for new stories and assigning writers. The panel will discuss the role of satire on today's university campus and their writing process, their hopes for BB’s future, as well as read from their work. @boulevardbulletinsmu

Moderator: Dr. Susan Norman is the Boulevard’s faculty sponsor. She teaches in the Writing and Reasoning program. Student Panelists " the Bulles": Tamal Pilla, BB President ; Josh Baier, Editor/Writer; Callie Oden-Writer/BB Executive Board.

Featuring: Mag Gabbert, Kendra Allen, KB Brookins, and Sebastian Paramo, Moderator

DFW-based poets discuss their work and how they engage with their communities in their work on and off the page. From organizing events to writing about place and memory, these poets share the importance of writing within a community.

Featuring : Life High School in Waxahachie and Stacie Megally, Moderator

Featuring : Greg Brownderville and Bart Weiss

Greg Brownderville (showrunner / writer / creator) and Bart Weiss (director) will screen key scenes from their groundbreaking project Fire Bones, the world's first "go-show."

Featuring: Ali Kominsky (Dupree/Miller Agent), Cassidy Sachs (Random House Editor), Amber LaFrance (CultureHype President + Executive Publicist), and Noelle LeVeaux, Moderator.

Featuring: Melissa Whitler, Simone Melvin, Rowan Goble, Sarah Mende, Caroline Roman

Some of the members of SMU’s student run literary magazine, Kairos, will discuss the creation of a publication from the creative process to production and distribution.

Featuring: Kendra Allen (Fruit Punch), Latoya Watkins (Perish), Alex Temblador (Half Outlaw), and Timothy Diovanni, Moderator.  

Featuring: Tarfia Faizullah, Laura Kopchick, Ashley Mag Gabbert, and Jacob Rubin, Moderator

Featuring: Noelle LeVeaux (I Miss You When I Sleep)

Featuring: Jenny Bhatt, Shelby Vincent, Sean Cotter, and Riley Rennhack, Moderator

Deep Vellum translators read from their work, discuss the challenges and pleasures of literary translation, the role of the translator in the current literary landscape, and what brought them to translation in the first place.

Featuring: Katie Condon, Destiny Birdsong (Negotiations & Nobody’s Magic), Tarfia Faizullah (Registers of Illuminated Villages), and Stacie McCormick, Moderator.

Shara Jeyarajah: Maladjusted Podcast. “Predominantly White”

Featuring: Nancy Churnin (Dear Dr. Dickens)

Featuring : Katie Condon, Simone Melvin, Jordan Young, Alejandra Cuellar, and Sebástian H Parámo, Moderator

Featuring : Aryele Maye (Mel’s Missing Drumstick)

Featuring Dallas College Renee Taken, Ricky Rios, Tonatiuh Perez, and Giraud Polite as moderator

Featuring: Kathleen Kent (Black Wolf ), John Vercher (After the Lights Go Out), and David Hale Smith (Moderator).

Join us along with Joaquin Zihuatanejo (Dallas Poet Laureate), Katrice Hardy (DMN Executive Editor), and Samantha Guzman (Dallas Morning News , Arts Access Coordinating Editor).