Tulsa Pie Festival
WOMPA
October 3, 2026
Pie people have good time management, which explains why I snagged the last parking space in the WOMPA lot at October 3’s inaugural Tulsa Pie Festival, hosted by Common Tart, at 11 a.m., the exact time the festival opened. The first of its kind in Tulsa, the three-part event included pie sales from Common Tart, local food and arts vendors, and a home baker competition that up to 100 festival attendees could help judge for an admission upcharge.
I’ll get my few quibbles out of the way here, as they are all organizational. I had to ask at check-in what my wristbands meant and what the tokens they handed me were for (they were for placing in cups next to my three favorite pies). There was no one-way route through the 22ish pie tasting entrants, so the line split into two directions and caused a pi(e)le-up about midway.
A couple of competition bakers told me that general admission attendees—that is, patrons who didn’t pay for competition wristbands—helped themselves to tastings and threw off the quantity of pie they had to prepare. These are small complaints for a first-time event with no way to predict how many people might show up and how punctual they would all be (very).
Pie people are patient, though, so none of these things detracted much from the experience as an attendee and taster. The in-line chatting between strangers was fun and pleasant while we waited to get into the tasting hall, all of us crunching on provided Lay’s potato chips and strips of bacon handed out as palate cleansers.