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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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October 20, 2019 The Fayetteville Library’s seventh annual True Lit Festival 2019 got underway on Sunday, October 20 with Melanie Benjamin’s talk, “Shining a Light on the Past.”
The Festival will run through Sunday, October 27.
In addition to the events held at the library, school visits take workshops and talks to local students in grades 4 to 12.
This year, local authors have the opportunity to pitch their books to representatives of three publishers and two literary agencies.
Keynote speaker Gene Luen Yank will present a public lecture on Wednesday, October 23 at 7 pm in the library’s Walker Community Room.
Yang will discuss the importance of narratives that convey a multitude of cultural experiences.
On Tuesday, October 22 at 6 pm, author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka will lead an illustrator workshop focusing on techniques such as character expression, perspective, shadow, and gesture. The workshop is intended for illustrators 14 and up. Registration is required.
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October 15, 2019 Nimrod International Journal will host its annual Conference for Readers and Writers, a day of one-on-one writing workshops, masterclasses, readings, and panel discussions at the University of Tulsa.
The Conference will feature workshops on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction,young adult, mystery, and publishing contracts, as well as one-on-one editing workshops, agent-led novel query critique sessions, readings, […]
October 8, 2019 Arkansas writer Brenda Clem Black’s memoir about her husband’s family, Black & Kiddo: A True Story of Dust, Determination, and Cowboy Dreams(Et Alia Press, 2018) has been garnering awards since its publication in August 2018.
The book took top honors at the annual awards banquet of the Ozarks Writers League in Branson, where it was […]
September 29, 2019 GUEST POST by Arkansas writer Barbara Youree
Probably the most useful verb in our English language is to be and its forms (am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been), yet its overuse can be problematic.
Was and were are the main culprits for writers. The overuse of these two forms present a trap for […]
September 20, 2019 The 2020 Authors Festival at Kimberling Area Library in Kimberling City, Missouri is scheduled for February 1, 2020.
The deadline to apply for speaking slots and tables is November 1, 2019. Applicants will be notified of acceptance in December.
Authors with books to sell can apply to speak at the event. A limited number of […]
September 5, 2019 Arkansas writer Nancy Hartney’s flash fiction piece, “The Barn, Day after the Funeral,” earned the number two slot at WriterCon 2019 in Oklahoma City over the Labor Day weekend.
Nancy has published two short story collections, Washed in the Water and if the creek don’t rise.Both books are available through Pen-L Publishers, Barnes and Noble, […]
August 18, 2019 Michelle Hannon, Executive Director of the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, has announced the availability of a new fellowship at the Colony.
The award will go to a writer who is working on a short or long work of non-fiction focusing on mental illness, either that of the writer or of someone […]
August 5, 2019 As he has done for her previous language guides, Kyle Kellams interviewed Arkansas writer and teacher Maeve Maddox about her latest publication, The Pronoun Book, on Fayetteville’s local NPR station, KUAF (Ozarks at Large, July 30, 2019).
Kyle Kellams, a broadcaster who values Standard English
In gratitude, and in recognition of Kellams’ interest […]
August 4, 2019
For the most part, I try to keep the posts on ArkansasWriters third-person neutral, but for this one I’m making an exception. (It is my website, after all.)
Like most of my Arkansas writer colleagues, I’ve attended plenty of writers’ conferences, some of them excellent, some of them—not so much.
If you’re looking for […]
July 31, 2019 Write while the keyboard is clear!
Kaleidoscope is a publishing project for women, mostly online. Its purpose is to anthologize short stories and memoirs that capture a uniquely female experience.
The current short story contest, “Summer Vacation,” ends August 8, 2019. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced on September 2, 2019. […]
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