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State Writing

​Conference & Convention


Hosted by District 1
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October 8-10, 2021 - via Zoom
The 2021 convention was an all-virtual event. Read the notice here.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page for contest awards videos and more!

THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS AND BUSINESSES WHO SUPPORTED OUR 2021 CONVENTION

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The 2021 Convention

​Program!

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Keynote Speaker: Timothy Keane

Keynote: "Pardon My Pentameter: A Descent Into Cowboy Poetry." Dr. Timothy Keane is a three-time champion in the Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest. He also has won multiple events at the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, where he was overall reserve champion in 2016 and 2018. While this all sounds quite pretentious, he attempts to remain pragmatic, half-handy, and on occasion, entertaining. He describes himself as a “green broke”* cowboy poet, although he has “slipped past various judges a few times.”
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Dr. Keane is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Distinguished Graduate Faculty, in the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University, where he has served since 1984. His research involves the study of rivers, creeks, gullies and erosional or depositional processes.
He lives with his wife, Sharon, and a couple of bird dogs in northwest Wabaunsee County.

“Green broke”: has had a saddle on, been ridden a few times, has lots of vices, needs tons of work; is liable to spook, bolt, kick, rear, crow-hop, and refuse simple situations; basically unpredictable.

Opening Speaker: Thomas Fox Averill

Moved to Friday, October 8, at 7:00PM
"Trouble: the Backbone of Literature"
Opening Speaker: Thomas Fox Averill, retired WU English teacher, has published several books and is a radio commentator, using the name “William Jennings Bryan Oleander.” He donated a collection of books by Kansas authors to the Maybee Library at Washburn. The opening general session Saturday morning, October 9, will focus on a quote from Eudora Welty, “Trouble, the Backbone of Literature,” and the way that trouble helps construct plot and character together as people move from difficulty to either overcome, or come to live with “troubles.”

Schedule of Events

Friday, October 8
6:30 p.m. If you are new to Zoom, join us at 6:30 for a quick introduction.

7:00 p.m. Opening remarks by State KAC President Duane Johnson, Host District President Anne Spry and Welcome by Arts Connect’s Sarah Frizell.

Speaker, Tom Averill: "Trouble: the Backbone of Literature"

Saturday, October 9

8:00-8:45 a.m. – KAC Annual General Membership Meeting and Election of Officers for 2022. All members are encouraged to attend. 

9:00- 10:00
Webinar Channel 1: 
Webinar  Channel 2: 
10:15 - 11:15
Webinar  Channel 1: 

11:30 - 12:30
Webinar  Channel 1:
Main speaker Tony Silvestri “Lifting the Veil of Creativity”
 

1:30 - 2:30
Webinar Channel 1: 
Webinar Channel 2: 
2:45 - 3:45
Webinar  Channel 2: 
3:00 – 5:00
Webinar Channel 1:
  • Youth Contest Awards

4:00 - 5:00
Webinar Channel 2:  

5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Webinar Channel 1: 
8:15 to 9:00 –
Via Zoom Meeting Format
  • Read-around
 
Sunday, October 10

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.
Via Zoom Meeting Format
  • Rosemary Time, including honoring our departed members. Come to reminisce and visit. 

9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
Webinar Channel 1:
10:30 to 11:30  a.m.
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  • Panel Presentation - The future of the book business: Panel of area book store owners and a librarian to answer how their business and service models have changed through the pandemic and how we as authors can work more closely with them.

Webinar Channel 1:
12:00 to 2:30 p.m.
  • Writing Contest Awards
  • Closing
  • Invitation to next year’s convention by District 2.