2025 festival

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

the competition

Eligibility, rules, and how to enter the undergraduate writing competition (deadline: December 6, 2024)

membership benefits

Join us for the 2025 Southern Literary Festival

OUR BOARD

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Our Board
Southern Literary Festival Cochairs Christian Anton Gerard and Jennifer Wachtel Kates
Board Co-Chairs Christian Anton Gerard and Jennifer Wachtel Kates

AY 2023–2024

Co-Executive Directors:
Christian Anton Gerard (independent poet)
Jennifer Wachtel Kates (MTSU)

President:
Connor Fischer (BMCU)

Vice President:
Sybil Baker (UTC)

Past President:
Beth Spencer (UMiss)

Secretary:
Chris Hill (UTM)

Treasurer:
Chris Hill (UTM)

Blue Mountain Christian University Liaison:
Nancy Kerns (BMC)

Webmaster:
Erin Hoover (TTU)

Social Media:
Dan Bernitt (CBU)

Grants and Funding Officer:
Karen Golightly (CBU)

Recruitment:
Beth Spencer (UMiss)

Anthology Liaison:
Ezekiel Black (UNG)

Members at Large:
Angela Green (UMiss)
T. K. Lee (MUW)
C. T. Salazar (DSU)
Theodore Pelton (TTU)

About Board Terms:
The offices of President and VP change according to who is hosting each year. Any other changes take place at our annual meeting at the Festival event in April.