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3607 Pennsylvania Kansas City, MO 64111
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NEWS!
The Writers Place is a 501(c) nonprofit funded by grants and private donations. We're looking forward to one of our biggest yearly fundraisers and celebrations of the written word: The Power of Reading Patron Party on Tuesday, September 11 and The Power of Reading Celebration of Reading literary event co-sponsored by Literacy Kansas City on Thursday, September 13.
Tickets for the Power of Reading Patron Party start at $50 and include a wine and book tasting at the home of Patricia Cleary Miller. Dr. Miller is Editor-in-Chief to the Rockhurst Review and Poet-in-Residence. She also teaches Creative Writing and publishes award-winning poetry. Treat yourself and come to meet other Kansas City writers and readers!
Even if you can't attend, you can still help support the programs, workshops, readings and other events outlined below. Click here for more information on becoming a patron or member of The Writers Place.
Art Exhibit Extended!
Meditation on Place: Photography by Andrea Brookhart and Jesus and Me with Kittycats: The Artwork of Gail Aggen have been extended until Thursday, August 30. The Gallery is open during office hours Monday-Friday from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. The art also may be viewed before and after events at The Writers Place.
Call for Latino Artist-Writers!
The Writers Place seeks submissions from Latino artists working in more than one creative medium for a Latino Writers as Artists: Day of the Dead and Spiritually-Centered Celebration exhibition opening with a reception on Saturday, October 13, from 6-9 pm. The exhibition will end on Saturday, December 8.
Application should include:
- Artist statement and vitae and complete contact information.
- Six (6) to eight (8) examples of your work, which include examples from each medium you wish to display or perform.
Visual entries should be JPG format; musical or voice/performance entries should be on MP3 or send a YouTube link on which examples of your work can be viewed. You may also send your entries by mail CD* with SASE for returning to: fbradley@writersplace.org or The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111.
Deadline: September 7.
AUGUST EVENTS
Monday, August 27, 2012, 7 PM
Our monthly open mic, hosted by Sharon Eiker.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Kacico Dance Company/River Cow Orchestra/Area Poets Saturday, September 1, 2012 7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
7:00 PM
"A discussion of Classical Music in America" by Joseph Horowitz (Book Two, Part One, pgs. 265-394). newEar advisory council member Dr. Andrew Granade will lead the discussion, which includes audio and audiovisual illustrations. Beverages and treats will be served.
Recovery & Addiction Reading
Friday, September 07, 2012
7:00 PM
In celebration of National Recovery Month, local writers who have been affected by addiction, be it their own struggles or the struggles of family and friends, share their stories. Hosted by CARRIE ALLISON and JUDITH ROBERTS.
Annual Writers Place Retreat at Arrow Rock, MO Friday, September 7-Sunday, September 9 Enjoy a weekend-long retreat to get in touch with yourself and your writing in a beautiful, natural setting. Poet Michelle Pond will instruct a workshop on ekphrastic writing, which is writing inspired by art. Cost: $175 includes two nights of housing, six meals, a ticket to see the play "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the Lyceum Theatre, and the cost of the workshop. Hosted by Sharon Eiker. Call The Writers Place, 816-753-1090, for registration information. Deadline: August 31 Blue Monday at the Uptown Arts Bar Monday, September 10, 2012 8:00 PM Bring your best energy to this open mic at The Uptown Arts Bar, a new venue that celebrates and supports performing arts and artists. Everyone gets five minutes of fame on Broadway. Hosted by SHARON EIKER. Location: Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, Kansas City, MO Power of Reading Patron Party Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:00 PM To purchase tickets or donate click here. Join us for the Power of Reading Patron Party at the beautiful home of Patricia Cleary Miller. All donations go to benefit The Writers Place. Featured book tasters will be poet and UMKC Professor of English Hadara Bar-Nadav; memoir author Wayne Courtois; Rainy Day Books Owner Vivien Jennings, fiction writer Molly Shapiro and social responsibility consultant and author Laura Wells McKnight. Wines by Cellar Rat. The Power of Reading: A Celebration of the Written Word Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:30 PM Co-sponsored by Literacy Kansas City and The Kansas City Public Library. The fourth annual Power of Reading event features adult learners from Literacy Kansas City sharing their personal stories and how learning to read has transformed their lives. Local writers YAEL T. ABOUHALKAH, LISA HARKRADER, MIGUEL MORALES, and KAY SAUNDERS will also read from their work, discussing the power of books and reading in their lives. NICK HAINES, host and producer of KCPT Channel 19's Kansas City Week in Review, will emcee the event. Open to the public and free of charge. Location: Truman Forum Auditorium, Kansas City Plaza Public Library, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri, RSVP to the library by calling (816) 701-3407 Riverfront Reading: Linda Tobaben and David Hughes Friday, September 14, 2012 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2012
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Barbara Bartocci will teach another of her popular workshops on memoir writing for people wanting to tell their stories, in short form or long form. Learn what makes a publishable personal essay. Get hands-on experience to help you get started and keep going, so you go from "I'd like to" to "I've done it!" Learn how to recognize the insightful events of your life and discover the techniques for writing them down so others excitedly want to read them. Your personal story is a wonderful gift--to give to loved ones, to put online, to offer to publishers. BYO Lunch - we'll furnish drinks. Purchase your seat! $90 nonmembers / $60 members
Become a member of The Writers Place today for $49!
Sunday Salon
Sunday, September 16, 2012
2:00 PM
This series will appeal to the serious reader. Each month an author will be announced for study. These may be novelists, playwrights, essayists, or poets. Each person in our group will read work by the selected author and share in a salon-style discussion lead by Sharon Eiker. This month: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Riverfront Readings Special Featuring Fred Arroyo and Richard Blanco
Sunday, September 16, 2012
4:00 PM
In partnership with the UMKC Departments of Latina/Latino Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures; Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame; The Latino Writers Collective; and Bernardin Haskell Funds.
Fred Arroyo is the author of the novel The Region of Lost Names (University of Arizona Press, 2008), and Western Avenue and Other Fictions forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press in the spring of 2012 as a part of its Camino del Sol series.
Richard Blanco's acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, won the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center. A third collection, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2012.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
7:00 PM
Master Fiction Class with Catherine Browder
Thursdays, September 20, 27, October 4 & 11
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A Master Class in Fiction: Building a Story, Start to Finish
CATHERINE BROWDER
In this four-week workshop, participants will create an entirely new work, from draft to revision. (Maximum enrollment 9) $160 nonmembers/$120 members NOTE: Class nearly filled!
Become a member of The Writers Place today for $49!
Friday, September 21, 2012
7:00 PM
Part of The Writers Place Reading Series.
Katherine Karlin's short story collection, Send Me Work, published by Triquarterly in October 2011, is the winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize and a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Award. Her stories have been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South, and have appeared in One Story, ZYZZYVA, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and many other journals. She teaches creative writing and literature at Kansas State University.
Sunday, September 24, 2012
7:00 PM
Our monthly open mic, hosted by Sharon Eiker.
Anthology Release Party for the I-70 Review
Friday, September 28, 2012
7:00 PM
This annual I-70 Reading will feature contributors to the magazine along with an anthology release party. Contributors include Piper Abernathy, Tom Averill, Anne Baber, Janet Banks, Walter Bargen, Bill Bauer, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Phyllis Becker, Xanath Caraza, Brian Daldorph, Tammy Daniel, Amy Davis, Joe DeLuca, Paul Dickey, Mary Stone Dockery, Jose Faus, Gary Gildner, Tina Hacker, Dan Jaffe, Judith Bader Jones, Pat Lawson, Denise Low, Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Jo McDougall, Al Ortolani, Eve Ott, Christine Pacosz, H.C. Palmer, Matt Porubsky, Kevin Rabas, David Ray, Judy Ray, Jack Ridl (winner of the Gary Gildner Contest), Andres Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schultz, Robert Stewart, Alarie Tennille, Diane Wakoski, Susan Whitmore, and many others.
For our complete listings, visit our calendar. Unless listed otherwise, all events take place at The Writers Place. Admission to readings is $5 / $3 Writers Place members. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.  |
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