Great Plains Writers Conference kicks off in exactly two weeks!

Friday, April 12th begins the conference with a kickoff keynote by Steven Wingate, as well as a book signing for his latest publication. Saturday, April 13th features several events such as a prose sharing workshop, a variety of speakers, and the launch of the 2019 edition of Oakwood! Sunday, April 14th closes the conference with poem sharing workshop and several more speakers.

We hope to see you all weekend at the Great Plains Writers Conference (and at our launch party too, of course).

Join us April 13th at the Great Plains Writers Conference for the launch of the 2019 issue of Oakwood! The launch begins at 4PM in the Hobo Day Gallery room on the first floor of the Student Union. We hope to see you all there!

Yesterday was the last day for submissions. Thank you to everyone who sent in their work! We will now be dedicating most of our time to reading all the submissions we’ve received. Acceptance and rejection emails should be going out around mid-March as it will take us some time to read everything we’ve received and cast our final votes.

We look forward to reading all your submissions!

The submission deadline for the 2019 edition of Oakwood Literary and Arts Journal has now been extended to January 31st!

Please visit our submissions guidelines for information on how to submit!

Please visit our submission guidelines for more information and send us your best work!

Come celebrate the 2018 issue of Oakwood at the South Dakota Festival of Books Saturday, September 22,10:00 am – 10:45 am

We’ll be in the City County Building, Council Chambers (520 3rd St, Third Floor)

Featured readers are Patrick Hicks, Mary Alice Haug, Jodi Andrews, Adam Luebke, and Erika Saunders.

Come celebrate the launch of our 2018 issue Thursday, April 19 at the Daschle Archive Room on the second floor Briggs Library on the SDSU campus. The event will begin at 7:00pm and refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

We have extended our submission deadline for the 2018 issue until Friday, February 16. Please see our submissions page for full details. 

Well, it looks like we dropped the ball on letting everyone know that we launched the 2017 issue of Oakwood, which is available electronically at <https://issuu.com/sdsuoakwood/docs/oakwood_2017–final&gt;. But better late than never. Hope you’ll take a look! We had a great reading and launch party at Briggs Library on the South Dakota State University campus.

The fall chill is starting to set in here on the northern plains, which means we’re only three months away from our next submission period. Stay tuned here for more details, or better yet follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/sdstateoakwood/&gt; and you’ll get up-to-the-second information.