April 15, 2023, 1:30pm
Presenters: Julie A. Sellers and Duane Johnson
In Conversation with the KAC 2022 Poet and Prose Writers of the Year
This presentation will take place in the Menninger Meeting Room, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604.
All members are welcome to attend this presentation in person.
The presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom.
Join the Kansas Authors Club's 2022 Poet of the Year, Duane Johnson, and Prose Writer of the Year, Julie A. Sellers, as they converse and share their thoughts about their creative approaches with examples from their own writing.
Presenters: Julie A. Sellers and Duane Johnson
In Conversation with the KAC 2022 Poet and Prose Writers of the Year
This presentation will take place in the Menninger Meeting Room, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604.
All members are welcome to attend this presentation in person.
The presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom.
Join the Kansas Authors Club's 2022 Poet of the Year, Duane Johnson, and Prose Writer of the Year, Julie A. Sellers, as they converse and share their thoughts about their creative approaches with examples from their own writing.
Julie A. Sellers was raised in the Flint Hills near the small town of Florence, Kansas. Those great expanses of tallgrass prairie and reading fueled her imagination, and Julie began writing at an early age. After living in several states and countries, Julie resides in Atchison, Kansas. Julie has published three academic books and a variety of articles. Her creative prose and poetry have appeared in publications such as Cagibi, Wanderlust, Unlost, The Write Launch, 105 Meadowlark Reader, and Kansas Time + Place. Julie was the 2020 and 2022 Kansas Authors Club Prose Writer of the Year. In the Kansas Voices Contest (Winfield), she was the Overall Poetry Winner (2022) and Overall Prose Winner (2017, 2019). Julie’s first book of poetry, Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables, was published by Blue Cedar Press in 2021. Her first novel, Ann of Sunflower Lane, was published by Meadowlark Press in 2022.
Duane Johnson is a retired journalist, who now primarily writes poetry. He has published one volume of poetry, Evolution's Promise. With the artist Lila Bartel, he has published a collection of poetry and watercolors entitled Living Expressions: As the Spirit Moves. He also has published a novel, Herald of the Resurrection. Johnson lives in Topeka and is married to a retired social worker. They have two grown children. He lives in a modest house with gray siding on a dead-end street with a chain saw, fishing gear and kayak in the garage. The near-by four hundred-acre lake is his laboratory.
Duane served as the president of District 1 in 2017-2018, state Vice President and book awards chair in 2019, and he took the helm as state President 2020-21.
Duane served as the president of District 1 in 2017-2018, state Vice President and book awards chair in 2019, and he took the helm as state President 2020-21.
- Districts and city groups/small writing groups are invited to incorporate these programs into their meetings as they see fit. For groups meeting on the 3rd Saturday of the month, the programs can be viewed live via Zoom as they are taking place. Program recordings will be available to district and group leaders for a period of one month for meetings held at other times.
- All members will receive the link for zoom attendance to make watching from home a possibility. Attendance in person is recommended and encouraged, whenever possible!
- Most meetings will be hosted by a KAC district on location and available to the rest of the state by tuning in on Zoom. Where applicable, we will list the location of the presenter so that members who would like to attend the presentation in person will be able to do so.
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