Gretchen Eick is a writer of history, biography, fiction, and some poetry best known for her book Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 (University of Illinois Press, 2001, 2007). She is a Professor of History, winner of 3 Fulbright Fellowships, and formerly a foreign policy lobbyist and director of an interfaith lobby in Washington, D.C. Most recently she taught at a Muslim university in Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina with her husband, the poet Michael Poage.
She will be speaking to District 5 of the Kansas Authors Club about writing flash fiction as a way to develop story lines and summon your muse. Part of the meeting will be devoted to participants' writing from prompts. Please come prepared with pen and paper or electronic device.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.
She will be speaking to District 5 of the Kansas Authors Club about writing flash fiction as a way to develop story lines and summon your muse. Part of the meeting will be devoted to participants' writing from prompts. Please come prepared with pen and paper or electronic device.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.