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http://thebeginningfarmer.com/more-about-titan-farmers/ WHISPERING PRAIRIE PRESS • 2011 POETRY, FLASH FICTION, AND ESSAY WRITING AWARDS • POSTMARK DEADLINE | June 30, 2011 Polish your favorite poems, short fiction, and essays for the Whispering Prairie Press 2011 Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Essay Writing Awards! PRIZES IN EACH CATEGORY 1st place $100, 2nd place $50, 3rd place $25, plus one honorable mention for every 10… Read more »
The young woman in this acrylic/collage is the paternal grandmother I never met—Sophie Eigles. She was nineteen and filled with life. Her beauty parallels that of the “Hagia Sophia” (Istanbul) in the middle of a sunlit day. A few years after my grandparents married and began their family, Sophie began struggling with mental illness. After the birth of her… Read more »
We can’t wait for Susan Peters poetry workshop at this years Writers Conference. (July 23, 2011 at the KU Edwards Campus) Susan’s “Formal Poetry: Not Quite Dead Yet” session will focus on pantoums, villanelles, sonnets, and other poetry that uses specific rhyme and rhythm patterns. Susan Whitley Peters grew up in Lawrence and returned to Kansas in 2006 after working… Read more »
A door just opened on a street–– it launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself as one opponent calling out checkmate an hour past midnight. Meanwhile back at the branch, the long-awaited return of the cardinal, St. Francis in the iris bed, snow making a little cap for his stony head, the sparse grass beneath naked trees since… Read more »
If you don’t know what to do on Father’s Day you can check out some talented writers at the Great Day Cafe in downtown Overland Park. We will be there from 1-2 pm tomorrow. Carol Katsantoness has put together a great line up of talented people.
We can’t wait to see you at this year’s writer’s conference. Bob Chrisman’s presentation on “Rules for Fiction” will help you fine tune your creative skills. In Bob’s own words “Once upon a time a middle-aged man left his government job and took up writing real fiction. He lived happily ever after. The End.” Bob writes fiction and memoir. His… Read more »
What I Did on My Summer Vacation by Alexander Silver My Daddy came home for his summer vacation. Mostly he stays in a quiet place with his pair of noids, which are bad things. They make him act weird. The doctors try to help him, but they can’t. I asked Mommy why they don’t send the pair of noids home…. Read more »
We are proud to announce Thomas Fox Averill is our Keynote Speaker at this years writer’s conference. Mr. Averill will be presenting: “Knowing it Cold, Writing it Hot” The “breathing in” that means–breathing in the atmosphere and environment and themes/subjects through travel and research. Thomas Fox Averill is writer-in-residence and professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, where he… Read more »
How to Get an Unusual Name Pick ancestors from a foreign-speaking land. Begin with a name that is little heard even there. Now stir up some rebellion. Politics and religion work best. But first make sure you’ve chosen visionary or stubborn stock. Neighbors must wish them dead, must drag ancient uncles from their beds to execution by… Read more »