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The Kansas Authors Club
welcomes creative, technical, academic, and journalistic writers

​Since 1904, the club has offered the opportunity to writers to share experiences and problems unique to their profession. We welcome novices to authors of national reputation.

​While magazines and books may be helpful in improving one’s writing skills, there is no substitute for the camaraderie enjoyed or the expertise developed when poets, playwrights, and prose writers meet to listen, discuss, and analyze their craft in an atmosphere of mutual support.

 
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2022 State Writing Conference

Hosted by District 2
Double Tree by Hilton
​Lawrence, Kansas
October 21-23, 2022


Thank you to the members and businesses supporting our 2022 convention

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Author Talks

“Writing the Radical—Saying the World is Kind and Good.”
For a limited time, watch Lisa's Talk right here! For members, it is archived along with our other Author Talks in the "Member Pages."

In 2012, Lisa Stewart rode 500 miles, alone, on her horse through Kansas and Missouri to fulfill a childhood dream. Lisa will speak about her notetaking and communications on the trip and how she handled writing about the love and kindness she encountered without sounding saccharine or appearing to promote a message. She will speak about why and how she made such a trip, the nature of horses, what she personally gained from the experience, and what she hopes others will learn about the beauty and kindness of the world.
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The Big Quiet: One Woman's Horseback Ride Home, by Lisa D. Stewart
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2022 Author Talk Schedule
June 14 - Lisa D. Stewart
August 9 - Adelaide Bauman
Many thanks to the following authors for participating in this series:
  • Jon Kelly Yenser
  • Chuck Warner
  • Michael D. Graves
  • Ronda Miller
  • Roy Beckemeyer
  • Grant Overstake
  • Gretchen Cassel Eick
  • Janice Northerns

The videos of these talks are available to members of Kansas Authors Club. Click here to access. Note: You must be registered with the website to view. If you are not already registered, it will take us a couple of days to approve you. ​


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