Guest speaker for March 8 meeting is Patricia Davids, a USA Today Bestselling Author. Topic – Plotting your novel no matter what genre you write in. Pat is from Kansas and graduated from St. Joseph School of Nursing. His Bundle of Love, her first book, was published in 2004. In 2013 she retired from nursing to become a full-time writer. She currently writes inspirational suspense, love inspired classic, contemporary inspirational and Amish fiction. In May 2013, she received an award from Romantic Times for the best love-inspired novel for 2012. Thorndike press has picked up two of her last books, Plain Admirer and Amish Christmas Joy, which will be released in hardback. Thorndike press produces large print books for libraries. Pat is thrilled that people will be able to enjoy the books for years to come. She has just released a new title, A Ranch for His Family, which she published under the author name of Hope Novarra. The meeting is back at Rockwell Library, 5939 E. 9th Street, Wichita, 2:00-4:00 p.m. We hope to see you then. Attention District 5 writers! Entry period for The 36th Nimrod Literary Awards (which include the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry) is now open through April 30, 2014. Poetry entries: 3-10 pages of poetry (one long or several short poems). Fiction entries: 7,500 words maximum (one short story or a self-contained excerpt from a novel). Must be previously unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Entry fee $20.00 per submittal. Send to: Nimrod International Journal, Literary Contest - (Fiction or Poetry as appropriate), The University of Tulsa, 800 S. Tucker Dr., Tulsa, OK 74104. For more information, see the web page here. D5 Member Discounts on Registration for the Transformative Language Arts 2014 THE POWER OF WORDS Conference in Kansas City, Sept. 19-21, 2014 District 5 has become a co-sponsor of The Transformative Language Arts (TLA) Network's 2014 Power of Words Conference. All D5 members will be receiving a special invitation to the event that will include a $30.00 registration discount. There will also be table space available at the conference for D5 members to sell books. The conference is scheduled for September 19-21, 2014 at Lake Doniphan Retreat Center in Kansas City, MO. The 11th Power of Words Conference will have workshops, performances, talking circles, celebration and more, featuring writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, community leaders, activists, educators, and health professionals. Keynoters are Kelley Hunt, international touring artist and singer-songwriter; Kevin Willmott, award-winning filmmaker, writer and director; Doug Lipman, storyteller, coach, mentor and author; and Scott Cairns, poet and writer. Artists-in-residence are poet, painter and muralist Jose Faus, and storm and weather photographer Stephen Locke. A special pre-conference reading features five Missouri and Kansas poets laureate: Wyatt Townley, William Trowbridge, Walter Bargen, Denise Low, and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. The TLA and conference web site can be found here. The Transformative Language Arts (TLA) Network supports individuals and organizations that promote forms of the spoken, written, and sung word as a tool for personal and communal transformation. TLA offers an annual conference, The Power of Words; online classes; a global community-building project, One City One Prompt; membership, and ample resources. TLA is an emerging field, profession, and calling that acknowledges and supports the power of the spoken, written, and sung word to encourage community-building, cultural shifts, health and healing, liberation, and celebration. The Transformative Language Arts Network is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Huffington Post, Simon & Schuster, and AARP have joined up to launch a memoir writing contest for writers over 50. Entries must be sent electronically and include a synopsis and the first 5,000 words of a memoir. There is no entry fee. The Grand Prize includes $5,000 and publication by Simon & Schuster. Full details and contest rules are available here. Good luck but HURRY. Submission deadline is February 15, 2014. Everyone has a story to tell is a Free Workshop presented by Katie Funk Wiebe this Saturday, February 8, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th Street North, Wichita. Katie Funk Wiebe, professor emeritus of Tabor College, inherited her love of family history from her German-Russian immigrant parents. She passes that love on to others through her books and by teaching classes on writing family history at Wichita-based LifeVentures, as well as doing other regional workshops, and appearing as a popular speaker for many community organizations and clubs. Recently she presented a workshop at the Kansas Authors Club's 2013 annual convention in Wichita. Described as being the “Gold Standard” author in family history, Katie’s most recent books are How to Write Your Personal or Family History — If You Don’t Do It, Who Will? (Good Books) and You Never Gave Me a Name (Cascadia). An early book is Good Times with Old Times: How to Write Your Memoirs. Katie inspires her audience to get started by “digging into the soil of the past,” organizing the findings and then keeping the momentum going. Sponsored by Kansas Authors Club, the workshop is open to members and non-members. If you have any questions, please call Cindi Kerr at 620-947-0191 or email [email protected]. |
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