Through some of our collaborations, we're able to help create special opportunities outside of our regular programs. Each year we host mid-and high-school students at for the Oklahoma Writing Project's "Write to Win" conference, and we regularly sponsor OCU students to attend workshops at the Oklahoma Arts Institute to develop their creative work. Recently we partnered with the Oklahoma Parkinsons Alliance to bring poet Wayne Gilbert and filmmaker and author Dave Iverson to campus, and we are standing partners in OCU's Lemon Distinguished Speaker Series, which has in recent years brought such nationally renowned figures as author and justice reform advocate Piper Kerman (Orange Is the New Black), ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau, and Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann.
Coming this fall . . .
We're excited to partner with the Wimberly School of Religion Willson Lectures to host poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of the podcast Poetry Unbound on Oct. 26, 2023.
Tommy Orange
Renowned Novelist Joining for a Special Event Coming on Sept. 2021
Tracy K. Smith in partnership with Oklahoma Institute, we welcomed US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to lead a special workshop for local students in 2018.
Kevin Willmott is an Academy Award Winning American film director and screenwriter joined us for a student workshop on story development and an OKC Museum of Art screening of his film "Destination" "Planet Negro" in March 2020
