National Novel Writing Month, that time when writers commit to 50,000 words in one month, begins November 1. In October, D5 member, Cindi Kerr, will discuss NaNoWriMo, how it started, who can enter (everyone), and some tips and tricks for winning. 

This meeting is free and open to the public. Please come prepared with pen and paper or electronic device.

When: Saturday, October 13, 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.

D5 member, Robert L. Dean, Jr., has been accepted to read his poetry at the Chikaskia Literary Festival 2018 on the Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, campus, Friday & Saturday, October 12-13. Chikaskia is an annual two day literary festival featuring writers from Oklahoma and beyond.

2019 CONVENTION PLANNING MEETING 

There will be a District 5 committee meeting for the 2019 KAC Convention at 12:30pm on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at Larksfield Place before the monthly D5 meeting.

ALL KAC D5 members are encouraged to attend.

KAC District 5 will host Tracy Edingfield Dunn, author of historical romances and middle grade fiction and former attorney, at their September meeting. Ms. Dunn wrote the following note concerning her presentation:

Dear Kansas Authors Club,

To get started, we’re going to do a Memory Exercise as it relates to emotion. To find what emotion drives your narrative, or should drive your narrative, think of past examples childhood memories and what impact they had on you, personally. Please share your experiences with the class. Using the emotion/colorwheel, we will pinpoint the overarching emotion then bring it to specificity in the outer circle.

We will examine writing samples where those kinds of emotions are in play, through dialogue and/or expositional passages.
 
Tracy Edingfield Dunn


This meeting is free and open to the public. Please come prepared with pen and paper or electronic device.

When: Saturday, September 8, 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.

This is a good time to remind members that we are accepting yearbook submissions. Here is the link: https://kansasauthorsclub.submittable.com/submit  

The guidelines are in the yearbook and at the submittable link, but here they are again for ease of sharing: 
Due Between August 1 and October 15, 2018, electronic receipt or postmark

• Every Member having paid current dues is invited to submit ONE literary contribution for the yearbook. That submission can be either prose or poetry. Prose is limited to one printed page (no more than 500 words). Poetry is limited to one printed page (no more than 40 lines including spaces between verses).
• All literary contributions remain the property of the individual authors. Authors may continue to use or distribute their work without requesting permission from the Kansas Authors Club. No work printed in the KAC yearbook may be copied or distributed in any form without explicit permission from the author.
• Yearbook Submissions are preferred via the online site, Submittable. There is NO CHARGE to submit a yearbook entry.
• The Submittable Site will be open to accepting yearbook entries between August 1 and October 15, 2018.
• Prepare your document as you normally would for print submission.
• The link for submission is:   kansasauthorsclub.submittable.com
• Complete required information. (Name, address, etc.)
• Select file and upload for submission.
• Please do not submit 2019 yearbook entries before August 2018.

Robert Dean's poem, "Jenny, Jenny," has been published in the Ekphrastic Review. The poem is based on a piece of art by fellow D5 member, Martha Wherry. 

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.

The newest Flint Hills Review is out with two D5 poets in the issue, Robert Dean and April Pameticky. There is also a review of past KAC President, Roy Beckemeyer's newest book, Amanuensis Angel.

KAC members from other districts are also in the issue. These include a review of Lindsay Martin-Bowen's book, a review of Tracy Million Simmons' book, as well as Maryfrances Wagner, and Cheryl Unruh.

The Flint Hills Review is a national literary journal housed at Emporia State University. 

Submitted by Robert Dean. 

D5 member, Robert Dean, has had the second of three ekphrastic poems published in Ekphrastic Review. According to the Poetry Foundation, an ekphrastic poem is based on a work of art. Robert Dean's poem, "You Are Here," is based on a piece by fellow D5 member Martha Wherry. 

D5 member, Robert Dean, has had two new poems published in the Red River Review. Once you reach the page, you can click on the titles to see the whole poems. The entire issue is available by clicking on "current issue" on the toolbar. Some good stuff in this issue. It's the last issue that Michelle Hartman will be editing.