# Event Details - **Event Name**: Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm – Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: A conversation about writing and researching the Tulsa Race Massacre with authors Randy Krehbiel, Rilla Askew and Jasminé Elizabeth Smith.About this EventTulsa LitFest presents a moderated conversation with host Randy Krehbiel, author of two works of non-fiction that focus on the history and aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, alongside novelist Rilla Askew and poet Jasminé Elizabeth Smith. Askew's novel about the atrocities in Greenwood Fire in Beulah was published 2001, and Elizabeth Smith's collection South Flight, which chronicles a couple dealing with the aftermath of the Race Massacre, was publishedin 2020. How the authors' manuscripts were researched, received upon publication, and the emotional turmoil of shaping a literary narrative around a horrific historical event will be talking points of the coversation. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/03ac8680-1519-11f1-93e7-0b68a45cc1e3-rimg-w493-h740-dc1a1416-gmir.jpg Best known for her American Book Award-winning novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Fire in Beulah, Rilla Askew is the author of five novels, two books of stories, and a collection of creative nonfiction, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place. First published in 2001, Fire in Beulah was selected for Oklahoma’s statewide reading program, Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma, in 2007. Askew is a PEN/Faulkner Finalist and recipient of three Oklahoma Book Awards, two Western Heritage Awards, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West, and the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in AGNI, Nimrod, Tin House, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Askew’s short story “That Grief, That Fury,” from her latest collection The Hungry and the Haunted, was a finalist for the 2025 Spur Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/03ec9cc0-1519-11f1-a42f-6bbe36c86375-rimg-w550-h740-dc2c4b74-gmir.jpg Jasminé Elizabeth Smith is an Oklahoma poet, educator, and facilitator now residing in Seattle, Washington. She is a Cave Canem and Black Earth Institute fellow and a recipient of the 2025 National Endowment of the Arts in Poetry. Her poetic work interrogates the archives of the African Diaspora in various historical contexts and eras and finds the critical linkages between the past and present. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been featured in publications such as Poetry, World Literature Today, and This is the Honey: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology of Black Poetry, among others. Her debut collection, South Flight (University of Georgia Press, 2020), was the winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize.https://www.jasmineelizabethsmith.com/ https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/041e5b20-1519-11f1-8ae5-771ed3dbcff0-rimg-w1188-h740-dc191614-gmir.jpg Randy Krehbiel is an Oklahoma native and a graduate of Oklahoma State University. He joined the Tulsa World in 1979 as a sports writer and has remained with the World ever since. He has reported on many things, including college football, boxing, polo, the 1988 OU-Kansas national championship basketball game, local, state and national politics, eaglets on the Arkansas River, The Monkees, the history of journalism in Oklahoma and the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.In 1999 he was assigned to coverage of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, a panel established by the Oklahoma Legislature to investigate the events of May 31-June 1, 1921, and their aftermath. Thus began the two decades of research and reporting that became the basis of Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre, which was published in September 2019 by the University of Oklahoma Press. It was named Oklahoma Department of Libraries’ Nonfiction Book of the Year and the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Book of the Year. In April 2025 he published Tulsa 2021: A Massacre’s Centennial and a Nation’s Reckoning. Randy lives in Tulsa, Okla., where he continues to report on state and national politics and government and whatever else comes along. He is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.Tulsa LitFest is brought to you by The Center for Poets and Writers, Tri City Collective, and Magic City Books. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/045ceac0-1519-11f1-93e7-0b68a45cc1e3-rimg-w449-h740-dcffffff-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/events/resilience-through-ash-writing-about-greenwood/100001983982324540 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/c7477600c33ada5f3bac4df7176a7d0c5b8c1b01ef614fe880024dd04fbb74fb-rimg-w905-h578-dc01a5a9-gmir.jpg?v=1772333263 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood being held? - **A:** Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood takes place on Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm at . - **Q**: Who is organizing Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood? - **A:** Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood is organized by Tulsa LitFest. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Resilience through Ash: Writing About Greenwood", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/c7477600c33ada5f3bac4df7176a7d0c5b8c1b01ef614fe880024dd04fbb74fb-rimg-w905-h578-dc01a5a9-gmir.jpg?v=1772333263", "startDate": "2026-04-25", "endDate": "2026-04-25", "url": "https://allevents.in/events/resilience-through-ash-writing-about-greenwood/100001983982324540", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "name": "", "addressLocality": "", "addressRegion": "" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A conversation about writing and researching the Tulsa Race Massacre with authors Randy Krehbiel, Rilla Askew and Jasminé Elizabeth Smith.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-28", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-25", "validFrom": "2026-04-28", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/events/resilience-through-ash-writing-about-greenwood/100001983982324540" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-28", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-28", "url": "https://allevents.in/events/resilience-through-ash-writing-about-greenwood/100001983982324540", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Tulsa LitFest", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/tulsa-litfest/21317956", "description": "A literary festival by Tulsans, for Tulsans." } ] } ] ```