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 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.
Tommy Orange
Renowned Novelist joined us for a special event in September 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
