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Members Dean and Beckemeyer Published

1/1/2021

 
Poetry written by D5 Members, Roy Beckemeyer and Robert L. Dean, Jr., appear in MacQueen's Quinterly, Issue 6, January 2021. Roy has two poems, one of which won the Editor's Choice Award, and Bob has one poem.

Bob's poem "Borderland" is under Ekphrastic Works. To see the image which inspired it, go to the website and click on the title of the photo by Chris Whitney which appears under the poem title.

Roy's two poems,  "Prothalamion" and "The Way Night's Lapidary Light Burnishes Your Skin," are under Poems, Lineated. Roy's latter poem won the Editor's Choice Award for this issue. 

Click below for the MacQueen Quinterly Table of Contents to read the poetry of these two talented D5 poets.

MacQueen's Quinterly Issue 6

Length of Membership REcognition - 2020

10/3/2020

 
It is with sincere appreciation that we acknowledge your dedication and contribution to Kansas Authors Club. Please accept this small token of our gratitude. We look forward to many more years of fellowship and growing our organization for the benefit of writers like you.
 
Length of Membership Awards
 
Fred C. Appelhanz – 15 years
Roy J. Beckemeyer – 10 years
Patricia Bonine – 10 years
Annabelle Corrick – 10 years
Edna M. Dyck – 50 years*
Pauline Fecht – 20 years
Marie Fletcher – 30 years
Jean Grant – 10 years
Yvonne Evie Green – 20 years
Reaona T. Hemmingway – 15 years
Kelly W. Johnston – 10 years
Carole Katsantoness – 10 years
Peg Nichols – 15 years
Kristine A. Polansky – 15 years
Cheryl Skupa – 10 years
Candace C. Sherman – 30 years
 
 
Octogenarians
Sylvia Colombo (2018)
Tom Mach

THANK YOU TO OUR MEMBERS FOR SUPPORTING OUR FIRST VIRTUAL CONVENTION

10/3/2020

 
An extra special shout-out to the following members for providing a bit of extra support to the convention team via program advertising. Please take a moment to visit these member websites and check out their books!
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It's All Show Business, by Connie Rae

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www.105meadowlarkreader.com

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Blue Cedar Press

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Pete Stone, Private Investigator

River City Poetry - June 2020

7/22/2020

 
KAC D5 member, April Pameticky, has put together a powerful issue of River City Poetry that assembles Kansas Poets’ responses to the events of June 2020.
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.
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Watermark Books in Wichita to Host D5 poets January 5 and January 12

1/3/2020

 
Watermark Books & Cafe will host local poets Michael Poage, Diane Wahto, and Matt Cooper for a joint reading and signing of their new books on Sunday, January 5 at 2:00 p.m. Poage and Wahto are D5 members.

Roy Beckemeyer, April Pameticky & Robert Dean are doing a joint reading at Watermark Books in Wichita on Sunday, January 12th, starting at 2 PM. 
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Members Dean and Beckemeyer in INAUGURAL issue of MacQueen's Quinterly

1/3/2020

 
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."


Congratulations to members published in the newest issue of the I-70 Review

10/23/2019

 
Cover Image of the 2019 I-70 ReviewI-70 Review
The new I-70 Review is out! Congratulations to the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this issue: Roy Beckemeyer (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Kevin Rabas (D2), Tyler Robert Sheldon (D2), Wyatt Townley (D2).
 
Order your copy from the I-70 Review website!
 
Have we missed anyone? Please send an email if there are additional members who should be listed here.
 


2019 Prose Writer and Poetry Writer of the Year

10/7/2019

 

Congratulations!

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At the 2019 Annual Convention in Wichita, Roy Stucky (D5 member) was named Prose Writer of the Year with eight awards in four prose categories.
The 2019 Poetry Writer of the Year Award went to Roy J. Beckemeyer (D5 member) for eight awards in four poetry categories.
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Robert Dean & Roy Beckemeyer published in KYSO Flash

8/4/2019

 
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!
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