Category: Mark Scheel

Member Mark Scheel on Medium

3/11/2023

Member Mark Scheel has a new post for cat lovers on Medium.

Note from Mark: For those of you with an affinity for our furry friends, a new excerpt from my memoir-in-progress is now posted on Medium just for you!

Mark Scheel on Medium

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Spotlight on Mark Scheel at Spillwords

2/7/2023

Spillwords Press has featured D2 member Mark Scheel as their "writer of the week." Congratulations, Mark!

Read the Interview Here!

Mark Scheel Published in The Milk House

1/6/2023

Mark Scheel's essay "The Empty Road" appeared on the online publication The Milk House on January 5, 2023. It relates the childhood memory of a farm hand who suffered from alcoholism and is an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress. https://www.themilkhouse.org/the-empty-road-by-mark-scheel/

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Mark Scheel Poem Published at Spillwords

7/8/2022

"Thoughts During a Morning Stroll," by D2 member Mark Scheel, was published at Spillwords.

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Mark Scheel: I was born on a farm in Kansas and attended Kansas University. After graduation I served overseas with the American Red Cross and later taught English at Emporia State University and was an info spec with the Johnson County Library. I belong to The Kansas Authors Club and The Writers Place and have served on the boards of directors with two literary magazines. I also was a prose editor for Kansas City Voices magazine. I'm now retired and write full time. My essays, short stories, poems and articles have appeared over a 40-year period in numerous periodicals. I blogged for several years on Scriggler and The Grant Journal and those posts were collected in a book. I have published six books to date representing every major genre. My work has won several literary awards and I'm represented by the Metamorphosis Literary Agency.

Member News from Mark Scheel

6/9/2022

Note from D2 member, Mark Scheel:

I'm happy to announce the inclusion of my poem "The Weary Wife" in the next issue of Dragonfly! It's a fine literary/arts journal and I'm flattered to be included.

D2 Member Featured in Inner Circle Writers' Magazine

1/17/2022

A Note from Mark Scheel, D2:

Well, it's just been released--the newest issue of the international online magazine Inner Circle Writers' Magazine published by Clarendon House Publications in the UK. I'm overwhelmed to be the featured subject (an extensive interview with numerous photos from my life) and pictured on the cover yet! Done to promote my new novel The Potter's Wheel, it refers to the book as "a masterpiece." Ha. IMHO, that's stretching it a bit, but I'll take it nonetheless! Can be purchased as an individual issue or yearly subscription. It's truly an impressive writers' resource publication. And I'm flattered beyond words to be a part. Now, let's hope it sells some books! Here's the promo and publisher link:

https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/magazine

Be well all,

Mark

https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/mark_scheel
author of The Potter's Wheel

author of Star Chaser

author of And Eve Said Yes: Seven Stories and a Novella
author of A Backward View: Stories and Poems

former prose editor Kansas City Voices magazine
recipient of the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award
recipient of the Nostalgia Poetry Award

Note from D2 member, Mark Scheel

11/12/2021

I'm excited to see my most recent fiction just released in Steven Carr's Short Story Town site, a coveted venue in which to have one's work appear. Do have a look and hope you enjoy! The title is "First Communion."

Mark Scheel was raised on a farm in eastern Kansas. A former teacher and librarian, he has had work appear in numerous periodicals and his seventh book, the novel, The Potter's Wheel, was just released from Clarendon House Publications.

Members Published in 105 Meadowlark Reader, Issue #2

11/2/2021

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.

Member Featured in Mission Magazine

9/2/2021

Turn to page 11 of Mission Magazine for a feature on D2 member, Mark Scheel.

LIVE IT,
THEN WRITE IT

Mission Author Mark Scheel
on a lifetime of writing

Story and photos by Denise Elam

Mark Scheel has been thinking a lot about what he wants his tombstone to look like.

The published author, poet, blogger and most recently, novelist, said he’s at an age where pondering an epitaph is considered normal. He wants his to share his life motto: live it, then write it.

“I write from experience,” he said. “My credo is: Writing of yesterday for the reader of tomorrow because life today makes no sense.”

And boy, does Mark have a lot of life experience to write about. Born in 1943 and raised on a farm just north of Emporia, he grew up in a household that appreciated a good book. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a “bibliomaniac” who read to him often.

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August 31st, 2021

8/31/2021

Congratulations to D2 member, Mark Scheel, on the UK publication of his novel, The Potter's Wheel.

The year is 1967. Mel Steadman, a Midwestern farm youth recovering from a severe head injury, becomes dissatisfied living at home and hops a bus to California. He finds work in a low-rent hotel chain and mingles with the young drifters along Hollywood Boulevard. Soon he bonds with an estranged night wanderer named Burch who clerks in a shop called The Potter’s Wheel and encounters a free-spirited femme fatale named Maureen. Adventure follows adventure, culminating, however, in abandonment and violence. Young Mel accrues many hard lessons of the street coming of age, echoes of a Holden Caulfield wrapped into a Day of the Locust during the sixties’ Summer of Love.

“The sixties may now be history, but that history lives again through Scheel's faithful rendering of the street scene in the Hollywood of 1967. The war protests, frenetic youth, and a lonely Midwesterner’s search for life's purpose are deftly depicted here by an exceptionally talented writer.”
—Ronda Miller, former State President, Kansas Authors Club, and author of MoonStain, WaterSigns, and I Love the Child.

“Mark Scheel is one of the best writers I know, bar none. And The Potter’s Wheel is a testament to that fact!”
—Edna Bell-Pearson, author of Headwinds and Fragile Hopes, Transient Dreams.

“Having experienced the turbulent California sixties myself, I can vouch that Scheel’s portrayal of the people and the times is spot on. Once again, turn on, tune in, drop out!”
—Paul Goldman, ecstatic poet, author of Silence Speaks and Upon Your Canvas.

D2 Member Published at Spillwords

8/5/2021

D2 member, Mark Scheel, is honored and delighted to have his new poem "The News of Richard's Death" appear today on Spillwords.

I was born on a farm in Kansas and attended Kansas University. After graduation I served overseas with the American Red Cross and later taught English at Emporia State University and was an info spec with the Johnson County Library. I belong to The Kansas Authors Club and The Writers Place and have served on the boards of directors with two literary magazines. I also was a prose editor for Kansas City Voices magazine. I'm now retired and write full time. My essays, short stories, poems and articles have appeared over a 40-year period in numerous periodicals. I blogged for several years on Scriggler and The Grant Journal and those posts were collected in a book. I have published six books to date representing every major genre. My work has won several literary awards and I'm represented by the Metamorphosis Literary Agency.

Kansas Authors Club Members to be Published in Inaugural Issue of 105: Meadowlark Reader

2/14/2021

The following Kansas Authors Club members had essays selected for publication in the first issue of 105: Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction. Issue #1, with the theme of "beginnings," is expected to be delivered to subscribers in early May, featuring 35 essays, including the following:

Gretchen Eick - D5
Marie Fletcher - D7
Beth Gulley - D2
Miriam Iwashige - D6
Nancy Julien Kopp - D4
Sandee Lee - D5
Don Marler - D5
Ruth Maus - D1
Julie Nischan - D1
Kevin Rabas - D2
Mark Scheel - D2
Julie Sellers - D4
Tyler Sheldon - D2
Julie Stielstra - D6
Barbara Waterman-Peters - D1
Jon Yenser - D7
Gloria Zachgo - D5
Ginger Zyskowski - D6

Cheryl Unruh (D2) of Quincy Press is the editor of the new journal, and Tracy Million Simmons (D2) of Meadowlark Press is the publisher. Readers are encouraged to subscribe before March 1 to take advantage of introductory pricing.

For those interested in submitting essays for issue #2, the theme will be "Kansas Travel Stories" and they will begin collecting those submissions in May and June of 2021

See 105meadowlarkreader.com for complete details.

Mark Scheel Poem published at Spillwords.com

1/4/2021

News from D2 member, Mark Scheel.

My poem "Season of Revision" has just appeared on Spillwords.com as their end of year selection. It's excerpted from my recent poetry collection Star Chaser from Anamcara Press. Here's the link:
https://spillwords.com/season-of-revision/

News from D2 Member, Mark Scheel

12/3/2020

STAR CHASER
Poetry by Mark Scheel
Photo Illustrations by Joseph Maino

Anamcara Press proudly announces the release of
STAR CHASER
29 July 2020
https://anamcara-press.com/product/star-chaser/

And more news from Mark:

Just had my poem "Season of Revision" that appears in my Star Chaser collection accepted for reprint by Spillwords.com to post after Christmas.
An audio version of my fiction collection And Eve Said Yes: Seven Stories and a Novella has just appeared on Amazon. It's the first time I've heard someone read a sample of my writing on Amazon.

An interview with me about my writing, arranged by Waldorf Publishing, will post about 6 January on "The Read" podcast hosted by Samantha O'Daniel. She does a terrific job of superimposing text responses to questions over video.

District 2 member published in anthology of writer essays

10/29/2020

The anthology of writer essays, I, The Writer, from Sweetycat Press, is now available on Amazon. It consists of 114 modern-day authors, fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, song writers, playwrights and journalists from across the globe writing "about the intertwining of their personal lives with their journeys in the literary arts."

Mark Scheel, District 2 member, is among the authors included in the anthology.

More about Mark Scheel:
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/mark_scheel
author of Star Chaser
author of And Eve Said Yes: Seven Stories and a Novella
author of A Backward View: Stories and Poems
former prose editor Kansas City Voices magazine
recipient of the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award
recipient of the Nostalgia Poetry Award

Member contributions in anthology published by blue cedar press

9/20/2020

Congratulations to D5 member, Gretchen Eick, and the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this anthology: Ronda Miller (D2), Jim Potter (D6), Mark McCormick (D5), Judy Keller Hatteberg (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Michael Poage (D5), Julie Baker Brinn (D7), Mike Graves (D2), Ruth Maus (D1), Julie Stielstra (D6), Mark Scheel (D2), Miriam Iwashige (D6), Najiyah Maxfield (D6), Janet Stotts (D1), and Diane Wahto (D5).

PRESS RELEASE
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

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