D6 member Karis Ens's new children's book, Happy as Gold, is set to release on Saturday, September 30, 2023. To celebrate this release, Time Honored Productions will be offering signed copies for sale through the Kansas Authors Pavilion at Great Plains Renaissance Festival. You can learn more about this event through their Facebook page.
This coming weekend, August 26-27, District 6 vice president Jared Vaughn, District 6 secretary Karis Ens, and several other members of the Kansas-based scifi publisher Time Honored Productions will be attending ICT Comic Con in Wichita. At this event, THP will be premiering two new titles: Writing in Sand or, Oh, Rose and Other Prose Notes by Dan L E Main and Tobias' Travels Coloring and Activity Book based on the book written by Shoshanna Aaliyah.
You can find more information about the event at the link below. On Saturday, August 19, at 1:30 PM, writer and blogger Nancy Kopp and writer and editor Cathy Hedge will present a unique presentation entitled Memoir - The Long and Short of It. This presentation will take place at the Manhattan Public Library, 629 Poyntz Ave, but it will also be broadcast via Zoom per usual.
Per the state website: Since the beginning of time, humans have told stories. Whether painted on cave walls, etched on soft clay, or tapped on a cell phone, we try to share our unique lives. For a lasting transcription, it is valuable to go beyond the diary or journal. Crafting our stories by using strategies of good writing and rewriting opens our memoirs and life stories to be accessible for all. Not just for those who love us. A good story told well is a gift to humanity. It’s time to get started. Join Nancy Kopp, writer and blogger, and Cathy Hedge, writer and editor, to explore the scope of memoir writing. We will share techniques to bring your stories to life and publication strategies. Cathy and Nancy are co-leaders for the Prairie Star Writing Group at Meadowlark Hills in Manhattan. This group was begun by the late Charley Kempthorne, founder of the LifeStory Institute. Members should receive the Zoom link via their email. If you have not received your link or you are not a member but would like to attend, contact Cat Webling. The next statewide meeting of the Kansas Authors Club will be on Saturday, July 15, at 1:30 PM CST. This meeting will feature Amy Sage Webb-Baza as the speaker, presenting a program titled "The Power and Surprise of Flash Fiction." Per the state's website: How does a writer achieve impact and surprise in as few as 500 words? Amy Sage Webb-Baza will introduce you to some of the ways flash fiction works, as well as resources for reading and writing in the form. The presentation will also share some growth of the form in nonfiction, or flash-CNF. Attendees can participate in a short, guided, flash-fiction writing prompt. Amy Sage Webb-Baza is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emporia State University, where she was named Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor and directs the Donald Reichardt Center for Publishing and Literary Arts. She is managing editor for Bluestem Press and Flint Hills Review. She publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and is author of Save Your Own Life: Kansas Stories (Woodley Press, 2012). For more information and access to the Zoom link, contact Cat Webling, Social Media Coordinator for D6. This month, the Kansas Authors Club hosts Denise Low for her presentation titled Embellishing Prose and Poetry with Memoir.
The 2nd Kansas Poet Laureate, Denise is a founding member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Her memoir The Turtle’s Beating Heart: Our Family's Story of Lenape Survival will be released in a new edition, 2023, and Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays (Meadowlark, 2022) is part Covid memoir and part lyrical essays—with some poems braided in. She has awards from the Kansas Center for the Book (4), Red Mountain Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Low teaches for Baker University and now resides in Sonoma County, California. Per her description: Louise Gluck wrote: “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” We will learn ways to transform memory into memoir using focus, invention, and deeper explorations. In the workshop, plan to write, edit, share, and discuss (or not—auditors are welcome). Bring a short poem or prose paragraph about any subject for experimentation. For more information and to obtain the meeting link if you have not received your invitation email, please contact Cat Webling, Social Media Coordinator for District 6. PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program will take place via zoom on June 10 at 1:30pm AND as regularly scheduled on June 17 at 1:30pm. Only the June 17 program will have the post-program break-out rooms and district gatherings. District 6 is proud to present the winners of the 2023 Spring Writing Contest:
Earl Shook, for his poem, The winter of my Life Linda Brower, for her story, Final Farewell Each winner will be notified with their prize shortly, and will have the winning entry posted to the D6 blog and shared across social media. Congratulations again to our winners. This Saturday, April 15, at 1:30 PM, the Kansas Authors Club will hold its statewide meeting. This month, our speakers are Julie A. Sellers and Duane Johnson. Per the state website:
Join the Kansas Authors Club's 2022 Poet of the Year, Duane Johnson, and Prose Writer of the Year, Julie A. Sellers, as they converse and share their thoughts about their creative approaches with examples from their own writing. This presentation will take place in the Menninger Meeting Room, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604. The presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom. District 6 will hold its monthly meeting immediately following the state meeting via Zoom in a private breakout room. Please contact Cat Webling for the Zoom meeting link or if you have any questions. District 6 hosts their first-ever seasonal writing contest this Spring with submissions opening today. The rules are as follows:
To enter, you can email your submission in the body of an email with your name and a short bio for crediting should you win to [email protected]. This Saturday, March 18, the Kansas Authors Club will hold its monthly statewide meeting and will welcome Kansas poet laureate Traci Brimhall as she presents a workshop regarding the art of poetic observation entitled "Why Can't the Heart Stop Asking?" Traci is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry, and Best American Poetry.
Via the state website: March 18, 2023, 1:30 pm Presenter: Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate Why Can't the Heart Stop Asking? This presentation will take place at the Manhattan Public Library Auditorium. 629 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan, KS 66502 All members are welcome to attend this presentation in person. Please plan to arrive early as the program will have a prompt 1:30pm start time. The presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom. After the statewide meeting, District 6 will hold a district-specific meeting with an exciting announcement regarding new writing opportunities for members. For more information and a link to the Zoom meeting, contact Cat Webling. KAC members are invited to a program on February 18, 2023, at 1:30 pm regarding memoir writing, presented by member Cheryl Unruh.
This presentation will take place in Emporia at Emporia State University, Plumb Hall, Room 406. All members are welcome to attend this presentation in person. The presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom. Please feel free to join the zoom meeting at 1:00pm for a half hour of socializing before the presentation. D6 members, please look for an email from Cat Webling with the Zoom meeting link. About the Presenter Cheryl Unruh grew up in the tiny town of Pawnee Rock in central Kansas. There, she developed a fierce love of the open land and the Kansas sky. Much of her writing is about Kansas, about a sense of place. For 11 years, Cheryl wrote a weekly column called Flyover People for The Emporia Gazette. She has twice received the Kansas Notable Book Award for her collections of Kansas essays, Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State (2010), and Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays (2014), both published by Quincy Press. Meadowlark Press published her collection of poetry, Walking on Water (2017), as well as her latest book, Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town (2021), a memoir, which won the 2022 Nelson Poetry Book Award and the 2022 Martin Kansas History Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club. Cheryl is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction. She lives in Emporia, Kansas, with her husband and three cats. |
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