Saturday, March 26 at 7 pm a one-act, four-scenes play by Gretchen Eick about life in today's Turkey for peace activists will be performed at Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church, 655 N Lorraine, Wichita (2 blocks south of Kellogg and one block west of Hillside). It is free and appropriate for all ages. The play is performed by the Peace Committee of the church and especially relevant as we see the violations of human rights in Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere. Please come!
February 15, 2022 - 7:00pm (CST)
Join Newton Public Library for an online author talk and interactive Q&A with Gretchen Eick. Eick will discuss her 2007 book, "Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72." To register and get the Zoom link, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_WmU8FfrYS7WvhVyvnLm3Bg. The program will also be streamed live on the Newton Public Library Facebook page. Need help connecting? Please contact the library! About the Book: On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Based on interviews with over eighty participants and observers of this sit-in, Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in an unexpected locus of the civil rights movement, revealing that the movement was a national, not a Southern, phenomenon. About the Author: Dr. Gretchen Cassel Eick, a professor emerita of history at Friends University has received two Fulbright fellowships and was for ten years a professional lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Carolyn Hall, D2 Member, is one of 21 Kansas Authors Club members published in the second issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader: Kansas Travel Stories. The journal of Kansas creative nonfiction can be purchased at "Partner Bookstores" including Crow and Co Books (Hutchinson), Eighth Day Books (Wichita), Flint Hills Books (Council Grove), Raven Book Store (Lawrence), Russell Specialty Books & Gifts (Russell), and Watermark Books & Cafe (Wichita). Subscriptions can also be purchased at Meadowlark Press. Kansas Authors Club members featured in this issue include: Ann Anderson (D2) Curtis Becker (D2) Sheryl Brenn (D7) Annabelle Corrick (D1) Gretchen Cassel Eick (D5) Marie Baum Fletcher (D7) Tammy Gilley (D6) Michael D. Graves (D2) Monica (Osgood) Graves (D2) Carolyn Hall (D2) Jerilynn Jones Henrikson (D2) Sally Jadlow (D2) Nancy Julien Kopp (D4) Sandee Lee (D5) Jim Potter (D6) Julie A. Sellers (D1) Mark Scheel (D2) Tracy Million Simmons (D2) Barbara Waterman-Peters (D1) Brenda White (D2) Editor, Chery Unruh (D2) The journal is currently taking submissions for issue #3 to be published in the spring of 2022.
Theme: True Bicycle Stories Guidelines can be found on the 105 Meadowlark Reader website. They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastman's Story |
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September 20, 2020
The Death Project: An Anthology for These Times is now in print and available to order at your favorite bookstore and Amazon.
This book is a 205 page anthology of stories, poems, mini memoirs, and factual pieces about the various ways we lose loved ones to death and how we grieve and heal. It is a collaboration by 36 writers from across the US, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Turkey, etc. who contributed their writing to help others suffering from grief or anticipation of grief. It is intended to expand readers' thinking, feeling, and imagining about this universal, often-hidden experience brought relentlessly to the world's consciousness in 2020.
The writers are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Bah'ais, atheists, and New Age, and of different races and ethnicities. Some write of family loss including suicide, others of war or devastating illness, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Others share rituals that helped them recover.
Published by Blue Cedar Press (Wichita, KS) and edited by Dr. Gretchen Eick and Cora Poage, proceeds from the sales of The Death Project after the cost of publication and shipping will go to an assortment of international organizations fighting COVID-19. $12 paperback, $7 ebook (epub and Kindle).
For more information contact:
Gretchen Eick, 316-682-8818
eickgc@gmail.com

Members who have poems in this issue include Roy Beckemeyer, Dixie Brown, Arlice W. Davenport, H.B. Berlow, Robert L. Dean Jr., and Gretchen Eick.

Eick is the author of Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007) and four novels (Maybe Crossings, Finding Duncan, The Hard Verge: Britain, 2025, and The Set Up, 1984: Britain's Biggest Drug Bust, Classified until 2064 (forthcoming 2020).
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