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D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., will be doing a reading from his new book, The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing (Turning Plow Press, 2020), at The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, June 19th, 2020, beginning at 7 PM, along with two other fine authors. Dean will be conducting a workshop on Ekphrastic writing the following day, Saturday, June 20th, 2020, from 11-2, also at The Writers Place, titled Finding the Door: writing ekphrastic and how to let yourself into the art.
The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing | IndieBound.org Emporia, KS – All Hallows’ Shadows, the third book of the Pete Stone, Private Investigator series, is the newest book by Kansas publisher, Meadowlark Books. The book retails for $16.98 and is now available for order. Author Michael D. Graves (District 2 KAC member) created the character of Pete Stone as a memorial to his grandfather. The first book, To Leave a Shadow, published in 2015, took Graves by surprise when it was recognized as a 2016 Kansas Notable Book. Book 2, Shadow of Death, was released in 2017. The third book, released this month, comes just in time for a debut at the Iola Reads celebration, where To Leave a Shadow was chosen by the organizers in Iola, Kansas, to be the community read book. Though the character of Pete Stone is fictional, the stories are set in an historically accurate 1930s Wichita. In book 3, Stone has been hired by a Wichita university professor to prove that the suspect in a recent murder investigation is innocent. While Stone begins to suspect the professor and his motives, additional murders bring to the surface clues that suggest the killer isn’t finished. In the writing of the novels, Graves enjoys placing clues and mementos from his own story. Graves was born in Wichita, and his father is the model for Rusty, the paperboy who makes an appearance in all three novels, and the green bike that Rusty rides is a tip of the hat to Mike’s first published book, Green Bike. Graves enjoys exploring Wichita, studying locations for the Pete Stone novels. He has spent countless hours in Wichita libraries, both public and the university, gathering details for his novels. Meadowlark books are available to order through any traditional bookstore and online book outlets. Books can also be purchased directly from the authors and from Meadowlark’s web-store at www.meadowlark-books.square.site ### D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., has two pieces in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly. You can find them at the link here, one under "Poems, Lineated," the other under "Prose Poems." MacQueen's Quinterly is the successor to KYSO Flash, both published and edited by Clare MacQueen.
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Contents: Issue 2 Robert L. Dean, D5 member, was recently published in the Ekphrastic Review.
His poem, "When Icarus turns ninety" is written to a painting by Stephen Schroeder. It is one of 42 ekphrastic works in Dean's forthcoming book, The Aerialist Will not be Performing: ekphrastic poems and flash fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder, to be published spring 2020. _______________________ Robert L. Dean is the author of At the Lake with Heisenberg (Spartan Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, Chiron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Shot Glass, Illya’s Honey, Red River Review, KYSO Flash, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and the Wichita Broadside Project. He is a multiple Best of the Net nominee and a Pushcart nominee for 2019. He was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. His second book, The Aerialist Will not be Performing, ekphrastic poems and short fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder, will be out in 2020. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music, held annually in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas. Kansas Authors Club has annual contests for unpublished work by adults and youth, as well as published book contests.
The guidelines for 2020 contests have been posted. Adult Writing Contests Youth Writing Contests Book Awards Clare MacQueen, the editor of KYSO Flash, has started a new online mag called MacQueen's Quinterly. D5 member, Robert Dean, is the featured artist, with five works in the first issue, all ekprahstic poems to the art of Steven Schroeder (the other featured artist in the issue).
Roy Beckemeyer, also of D5, has one poem in the issue, indexed under "Poems, lineated." D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr. has three poems in the Winter 2019 issue of Chiron Review. Congratulations, Robert!
Congratulations to D1 member, Duane L. Herrmann, for a stellar year of publishing!
This year Duane has had four books published by four publishers - one science fiction and three poetry collections (one dual language). New Books by Duane L. Herrmann
Congratulations to D5 member, Robert L. Dean, whose ephrastic work "Aftermath" was posted at the Ekphrastic Review, with art by Steven Schroeder. Dean was also notified that Lorette C. Luzajic, editor at the Ekphrastic Review, nominated his piece, "Metal Man," posted on ER earlier this year, and written to a photo of my paternal grandfather in my collection, for the Best of the Net. This was his first such nomination!
Clare MacQueen at KYSO Flash also nominated Dean's poem "Windmill," written to a wonderful painting by Steven Schroeder, for Best of the Net. Two District 5 members have several of their poems in the new issue of KYSO Flash, Robert Dean and Roy Beckemeyer. Roy, who is a former state President of Kansas Authors Club, is the featured author/photographer. Congratulations, Bob and Roy!
Ken Ohm, long time member of District 1, Kansas Authors Club, has earned The Kansas Notable Book Award for 2019 for his recently published novel, Brown Enough. Ohm’s book is available in all 377 Kansas public libraries, as well as from Amazon and selected retail outlets across the area - Flinthillsstories.com, or direct from the author: Ken.ohm@hotmail.com. Brown Enough: A Tale of a Mixed-Race Baseball Team Summer of ’56, by Ken Ohm (Topeka) Part historical fiction, part memoir, this novel takes place in the summer of 1956 in a small town in the mid-west. It is based on a true story of the social and athletic achievements of an eleven-man mixed-race baseball team, seven African-American, three Hispanics, and one Caucasian. Under the leadership of an aging charismatic African-American manager, the Brown Bombers tolerate the nearness of racism as part of the price they pay for the privilege of playing the game they love. The game itself offers a comforting quiet apart from the daily lives of this diverse group of young men. With a “magic” bat, a lucky arrowhead and an expanding fan base, the Bombers ultimately achieve a success beyond expectations. The complete list of Kansas Notable titles for 2019 can be found here. Dear Members, Please take a moment to submit your nominations for Awards of Merit. The deadline is July 1, 2019. Details (and nominating form) are on the 3rd to last page of your 2019 yearbook, or you can submit as detailed below. Awards for achievement in writing, service to Kansas Authors Club, or a special accomplishment are presented to deserving Kansas Authors Club members at the Annual Conference. Nominations should be sent no later than July 1st of the year to be considered. Forms may be sent either by e-mail or by regular postal mail. Award winners will be selected by ballot by a committee of Kansas Authors Club members chosen by the Awards Chair. The Awards Chair will present the names of those members nominated to a selection committee before reporting final results to the KAC board as soon as possible after the deadline for nomination.
Please give careful consideration to your reasons why the nominee is worthy of an award and list them below. If this person is to be considered for the achievement in writing award, then please list publications of the person’s writing, either published and/or self-published. For the service award, list what services were done both on the district and state level, how long the person held an office, etc. For the special accomplishment award, list when, where, and what this was, and describe the accomplishment. You may add more details on attached pages. Contact the Awards Chair if you have questions. Nominations may be made by any individual member of the Kansas Authors Club, by a group or a district. I nominate (full name) ________________________________ District ____ for an award in (circle one) Service, Achievement, or Special Accomplishment. The reasons I feel this person is worthy of this award are: _______________________________ Nominated by: ____________________ Send completed form to: Diane Wahto KAC Awards Chair 1912 Park Place Wichita, KS 67203 or email. Ronda Miller State President, Kansas Authors Club 2018-2019 Ronda Miller is a Life Coach and Poet who works with clients who have lost someone to homicide. She is currently a Peer Coach and traveling poet with Poetry for Personal Power. She is a Fellow of The Citizen Journalism Academy, World Company; a Certified Life Coach with IPEC (Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaching); a University of Kansas graduate; Lawrence resident; and mother to son, Scott, and daughter, Apollonia. Miller created poetic forms loku and ukol. She was a presenter at the Transformative Language Arts Conference at Goddard University in Vermont, October 2018. Miller gives presentations across the U.S. on grief, “Writing Your Trauma Without too Much Drama,” and end of life issues, “Talking to Crickets”. Miller has three books of poetry, including MoonStain (Meadowlark 2015) and WaterSigns (Meadowlark 2017). Ronda is the current President of Kansas Authors Club. She has served in past years as District 2 President and Convention Chair. At the state level she has been the Poetry Contest Manager (3 years) and Vice President (2016-2017). When Miller isn’t coaching clients, or writing poetry, she is wandering The Arikaree Breaks and screaming into blizzards and thunderstorms. KAC State President, Ronda Miller, will be presenting at Quincy Gallery in St. Francis, Friday, 9/21,@ 7 p.m. Miller will read 1,000 words from her upcoming memoir, Gun Memories, in keeping with the gallery’s theme, as well as reading from her latest book of poetry, WaterSigns.
This is a good time to remind members that we are accepting yearbook submissions. Here is the link: https://kansasauthorsclub.submittable.com/submit
The guidelines are in the yearbook and at the submittable link, but here they are again for ease of sharing: Due Between August 1 and October 15, 2018, electronic receipt or postmark
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