july 25 - author mark simmons
Learn about strategies, work plans, markets, & agents. Author website: www.wmsimmons.com
june 27 - author julie stielstra
As a bonus, Tracy Million Simmons (D2), Meadowlark Books publisher, will join us to assist with our first-ever virtual book signing!
Katie Myrdal’s 15 years old with her life in different worlds. She’s living on the 19th floor of a downtown Chicago apartment building with distant parents, then visits a caring aunt and uncle on the Kansas prairie. Life’s confusing. Katie’s lonely in the city, then surprised about her feelings for a boy with his own nightmares. Overwhelmed with life, Katie learns to cope a day at a time. Author Stielstra creates a vivid picture of Kansas with colorful characters so real you want to invite them home and cook them omelettes.—Jim Potter
next meeting: april 25, 1:30 p.m., via zoom!
author Ann christine fell is guest speaker. Revising is her topic. bonus: photos of cuba from her research visit to the island.
Saturday, march 21, 10 a.m. (CST)
free zoom training
to d6 members
2020 yearbook, d6 members only
Get your best prose or poetry ready and be published this year. One free copy to D6 members. See 2020 Yearbook Guidelines below.
Editor Tammy Gilley at [email protected]
The 2020 District 6 Board (Treasurer Phil Wood; Secretary J. Alex Potter; Vice President Tammy Gilley; and President Jim Potter) is proud of our club and wants to offer a special opportunity to its members. We decided to produce a book that showcases our member’s work—at no cost to the members.
The purpose is to attract and keep KAC D6 members and encourage people to write. We also want our members to have the opportunity to be published.
The size of the professionally printed book by Mennonite Press will be determined by the number of submissions.
Upon completion of this project, District 6 will present one free copy of the printed D6 Yearbook to every D6 member, whether they participate with a literary contribution or not. Additional copies of the D6 Yearbook may be available to D6 members at cost. It will not be for sale commercially.
Every District 6 Member, having paid current dues, is invited to submit one or more literary contribution for the District Yearbook. The submissions can be either prose (any genre) or poetry (any style). Prose is limited to one (or multiple pieces) totaling 1,500 words. Poetry is limited to a total of 160 lines (including spacing between verses and poems).
If your literary contribution has been previously published in print or online, it’s still eligible for this publication.
One original image (photo or artwork) only is permitted as long as publishing rights to the image are yours. Images will be printed in black and white.
All literary contributions remain the property of the individual authors. Authors may continue to use or distribute their work without requesting permission from Kansas Authors Club. No work printed in the District 6 Yearbook may be copied or distributed in any form without the explicit permission from the author.
There is NO CHARGE for current District 6 Kansas Author Club members to submit their literary contributions.
Additional guidelines:
- Send your contributions to D6 Yearbook editor Tammy Gilley at [email protected]
- Literary contributions accepted March 15 - May 15, 2020.
- Prepare your document as you normally would for electronic print submission. Tammy uses a Mac but she will accept Word Documents.
- Include the total word count (prose) or line count (poetry) of your contribution.
- Include your name and phone number in case Tammy needs to ask you any questions.
- Your phone number or address will not be published in the Yearbook. You will be identified by your name, as a KAC D6 member, and by your website if you wish to include it.
2020 Literary Contributions Yearbook questions – Tammy Gilley, [email protected] or 620-921-1377
KAC Membership questions – Jim Potter, [email protected]
or 620-899-3144
Note: This special offer for D6 members is not connected with the annual KAC literary contest (opens April 1, closes June 15, 2020) that charges entry fees. Also, it is not connected to the annual call for current members to submit one poem or prose piece to be included in the statewide KAC Yearbook.