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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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January 28, 2020  Brenda Black’s family biography, Black & Kiddo, A True Story of Dust, Determination, and Cowboy Dreams has been named as a finalist in the annual Sarton Women’s Book Awards.
The Sarton Women’s Book Awards™ are sponsored by the Story Circle Network, an international nonprofit association of women writers. Awards are presented annually in four categories.
The award program is named in honor of May Sarton, who is remembered for her outstanding contributions to women’s literature as a memoirist, novelist, and poet.
The awards are given annually to women authors writing chiefly about women in memoir, biography and fiction published in the United States and Canada and selected from works submitted. The awards are limited to submissions originally written in English and published by small/independent publishers, university presses, and author-publishers (self-publishing authors). Professional librarians not affiliated with SCN select the winner and finalists.
Winners in the four categories (memoir, nonfiction, contemporary fiction,
and historical fiction) will be announced in early April, 2020.
Brenda Clem Black is an Arkansas native and long-time resident of Prairie Grove. Her book, Black & Kiddo, is a narrative nonfiction about her husband’s parents, also Prairie Grove residents, although their roots were in Texas and New Mexico.
“They were extraordinary human beings living through some catastrophic events, and their story deserved to be told,” said Black. “I am honored that the book has been shortlisted for the prestigious Sarton Award.”
Previous honors garnered by Black & Kiddo include a Will Rogers Silver Medallion, New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, INDIE Book Award, and Best Book of the Year by Ozarks Writers League.
December 8, 2019
Attention Writers! Now is the time to prepare your entries for the 2020 OWFI Writing Contest.
The 2020 OWFI (Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Inc.) Conference is set for Friday and Saturday, May 2 and May 2 at the Embassy Suites on South Meridian Avenue in Oklahoma City.
The contest entry window is […]
November 27, 2019 Phil Slattery, who is in the process of forming the Arkansas County Writers Circle, has created a website to alert members to events and updates to offer articles about writing, marketing and publicizing one’s own writing. In addition, the site will offer publication to articles, short stories, and poetry submitted by members and others.
The […]
November 25, 2019 Arkansas writer Raymona Anderson’s second novel to be published by the Wild Rose Press got off to an enthusiastic start on Saturday, November 23 at the Living Waters Methodist Church in Centerton.
The novel, Bitter Pills and Deadly Potions, is set against the national soul-searching that followed the Kennedy assassination in 1963. The protagonist, […]
November 10, 2019 A publisher of elementary learning materials, K5Learning, is looking for writers to contribute short fiction and nonfiction texts of from 300 to 1,000 words for elementary-age children. The stories are for a series of levelled readers.
Writers will be expected to bring flawless grammar and attention to detail to their work. Experience or an interest […]
November 4, 2019
Phil Slattery
Phil Slattery (see his bio in the Writers Directory ) is forming a Writers Circle in Arkansas County.
The chief purpose of the new Writers Circle will be to focus on the marketing and publicizing of members’ works. Members will be invited to read from their works. The writing craft […]
November 2, 2019 Arkansas writer Brenda Black’s memoir, Black and Kiddo: A True Story of Dust, Determination, and Cowboy Dreams, won Second Place in the Western Bios & Memoirs category of the Will Rogers 2019 Medallion Award.
Published by Et Alia Press, the book recounts the lives of Black’s in-laws, Keith Leroy Black and Johnnie Dorris McSpadden.
Complete […]
October 29, 2019 NANOWRIMO coat of arms
It’s that time of year when wanna-be novelists can take the leap. NOvember NOvel WRiting MOnth is here.
NANOWRIMO is a nonprofit organization that provides tools for writers to schedule a thirty-day writing marathon to produce a 50,000 word first draft by writing every day and recording the daily […]
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 […]
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, […]
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