2025 festival

At Blue Mountain Christian University, April 3-5, 2025

the competition

We are pleased to announce the winners of the SLF Undergraduate Writing Competition!

membership benefits

Join us for the 2025 Southern Literary Festival

Keynote Speaker

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Breakout Session

Conflict & Confrontation at the Center: A Lesson on How to Stage Drama with Masterful Character Dialogue

Presented by LaToya Faulk

Friday, April 5
1-2:15 p.m.
Room 326

LaToya Faulk

LaToya Faulk grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She received a 2022 Pushcart special mention for the essay “In Search of Homeplace.” Her two plays, Lunch Break and Mama’s Flowerbed, were commissioned with Theatre Oxford for the 10-Minute Play Festival in 2022 and 2023. Her work has appeared in Scalawag, Southwest Review, and Amherst College’s The Common. She has a BA in English Literature and a MA in Rhetoric and Writing from Michigan State University. She recently received her MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi where she currently teaches First-Year Writing in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric.