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Congratulations to the Kansas Authors Club Members Published in the Ninth Issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader

4/21/2025

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Issue #9, the Luck issue, of 105 Meadowlark Reader has stories taking place in 31 Kansas counties and features 30 authors. 

Eleven stories in this issue are by authors new to 105. 

This issue will be available for purchase in Kansas independent boosktores and via the Meadowlark website in May 2025.

Kansas Authors Club members with essays in the Spring 2025 issue are:

Boyd Bauman
Brian Daldorph
Beth Gulley
Roger Heineken
Jerilynn Jones Henrikson
Duane L. Herrmann
Vicki L. Julian
Amy Kliewer
Kerry Moyer
Robert W. Phillips
Robert Rebein
Cynthia C. Schaker
Mason Taylor-Taite
Alicia Troike
Brenda L. White
Sheree L. Wingo
About 105 Meadowlark Reader
Meadowlark Reader Submission Calendar
Open Reading Period for Issue #10
May 1 - June 30, 2025
Theme: Work
Read the Guidelines Before Submitting
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2024 Achievement in Writing: Cheryl Unruh

11/10/2024

 
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Cheryl Unruh began her membership in Kansas Authors Club in 2011, but her name in Kansas literature well predates her association with our club.

Cheryl Unruh was raised in the tiny town of Pawnee Rock in central Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1981. She now resides in Emporia.

For 11 years she wrote her Flyover People column about Kansas topics for The Emporia Gazette. She has been a commentator on Kansas Public Radio. She has won awards from the Kansas Press Association and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 2016, because of her writing focus on Kansas, Cheryl was named one of Kansas’ Finest by Kansas! Magazine.

She has published two books of Kansas essays. Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State received the Kansas Notable Book Award in 2011, and Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays received the Kansas Notable Book Award in 2015. Walking on Water, poems, was published by Meadowlark Press in 2017. Her most recent book, a memoir, titled Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town, was awarded the 2022 Nelson Poetry Book Award and the 2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award by the Kansas Authors Club, the first time in the club’s history that these two awards were given to the same title.

Cheryl has been the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, A Journal of True Kansas Stories, since 2021. This popular Kansas publication has featured a total of 152 Kansas (and former Kansas) writers, representing 80 of the 105 Kansas counties, by setting of essay or author hometown, within the first eight issues of publication (Issue 8 will be available in November 2024). Cheryl created the position of and served as the first Welcome Wagon Chair for the Kansas Authors Club, pulling member introductory efforts into the modern age by giving new members the opportunity to introduce themselves to the Club via featured posts, created by Cheryl, on our website and on social media. Cheryl served in this position from 2021 to 2023.

Cheryl is a founding member of the Emporia Writers Group, an often informal, but sometimes ordered and structured meeting of writers that began with a handful of attendees in 2011. Today the facebook page for the group boasts 53 members, with somewhere between 6 and 20 attending the current monthly meetings. Cheryl’s leadership and cheerleading for writers across Kansas is unsurpassed. Her achievements as a wordsmith are to be commended.

​Nomination by members of Emporia Writers Group
Lindsey Bartlett, Angel Edenburn, Linzi Garcia, Mike Graves, Hazel Hart, Roger Heineken, Jerilynn Henrikson, Deb Irsik, Emilie Moll, Kerry Moyer, Kevin Rabas, Tracy Million Simmons, Brenda White, Michelle Zumbrum
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2024 Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest: Poetry Results

10/7/2024

 
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contest manager, Janice Northerns
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S.L. Brown and Gretchn Burch
Theme  “Words Take Flight, Choose Your Own Adventure” (27 entries)
 
1st Place:  “To The Blueberry-Picking Festival” by Gretchen Burch, D2

2ndPlace:  “middling paper” by April Pameticky, D5

3rd Place:  “Sitting With The Cottonwoods” by Kelly Johnston, D5

Honorable Mention:  “Firewatch” by Kelly Johnston, D5

Honorable Mention:  “Sometimes now, words escape me” by Iris E. Craver, D2
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April Pameticky, Brenda L. White, Julie Ann Baker Brin, and Gretchen Burch
Free Verse (51 entries)
 
1st Place: “Sixteen” by Gretchen Burch, D2

2nd Place: “Scars” by Judy Oliver, D5

3rd Place: Home of the Brave(s) by Julie Ann Baker Brin, D5

Honorable Mention: “Ekphrastic Mother/ Daughter Collaboration” by K. L. Barron, writer (D4) and Shawnee Barron (photographer)

Honorable Mention: “Itty Bitty Bio” by Jean Grant, D2

Honorable Mention: “Leaving” by Brenda White, D2

Honorable Mention: “On Speaking with My Brother Who is Dying” by Jeanice Eagan Davis, D5

​Honorable Mention: “thursday in the shadow of kesoo” by April Pameticky, D5
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Narrative (30 entries )
  
1st Place: “salt” by April Pameticky, D5

2nd Place: “High Plains Childhood: Spirits” by Janice Lee McClure, D7

3rd Place: “Eclipse” by Julie A. Sellers, D1

Honorable Mention: “you dreamed so hard it felt like permanence” by April Pameticky,  D5

Honorable Mention: “Planting” by Arlice W. Davenport, D5 

Honorable Mention: “Kansas is Burning” by Jeanice Eagan Davis, D5 

​Honorable Mention” “Fossils” by Kelly Johnston, D5
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Janice Lee McClure
Classic Forms, 10 entries
 
1st Place: “Ghost” by Janice Lee McClure, D7

2nd Place: “Frozen Rain” by Janice Lee McClure, D7

3rd Place: “Wild At Heart” by Janice Lee McClure, D7

​No HMs
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Sam Barrett and Gretchen Burch
New Poets, 18 entries
 
1st Place: “Music Lessons” by Gretchen Burch, D2

2nd Place: “Sick as Dogs” by Samantha L. Barrett, D5

3rd Place: “Circus” by Gretchen Burch, D2

Honorable Mention: “Permission” by Gretchen Burch, D2

​Honorable Mention: “Polka Dots” by Cynthia Schaker, D5
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Whimsy, 28 entries
 
1st Place: “Rebel with a Cause” by Janice Lee McClure, D5

2nd Place: “The King at the Door” by Arlice W. Davenport, D5

3rd Place: “Vultures” by Kristine A. Polansky, D4

Honorable Mention:  “Dog in the Sun” by Arlice W. Davenport, D5

​Honorable Mention:  “What a Maroon!” by Arlice W. Davenport, D5

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Julie Ann Baker Brin and Kristine A. Polansky
Japanese Forms, 15 entries
  
1st Place: “Oh, Sweet Canada” by Kristine A. Polansky, D4

2nd Place: “Swept” by Julie Ann Baker Brin, D5

3rd Place: “Mountain Haiku” by Jeanice Eagan Davis, D5

Honorable Mention: “Summer Night” by Aimee L. Gross, D1

​Honorable Mention: “Mists Silence the Trees” by Kristine A. Polansky, D4
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Jancie Lee McClure, Ashley Clayton Kay, and Gretchen Burch
 Rural voices, 32 entries
 
1st place: "What I Hate About Living in the Country" by Gretchen Burch, D2

2nd place: "Hay Work" by Tim Keane, D4

3rd place: "Turning 7 in March" by Ashley Clayton Kay, D2

Honorable mention: "High Plains Childhood: Summer" by Janice Lee McClure, D7

​Honorable mention: "Sledding in the Flatlands” by Jeanice Eagan Davis, D5
Poetry Chapbook Contest, 3 entries
 
1st, Published chapbook: Picking Fights in Book Club by Beth Gulley, D2
 
1st, Craft chapbook: faux pas: goofs, gaffes & other blunders by Martha Wherry, D5

April 27 Invitation from Anamcara Press - Lawrence, Kansas

4/22/2024

 
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With much appreciation to our authors, artists, and readers we invite you to celebrate the publication of
THE WRITE BRIDGE JOURNAL: 2024 edition. Enjoy refreshments, great speakers
& A GOOD TIME!


SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 20243:30  - 6:30 PM
WATKINS MUSEUM, LAWRENCE, KANSAS

Find Out More
SELECT ARTICLES, POEMS, SHORT STORIES, PLAYS AND ARTWORK FROM AUTHORS AND ARTISTS WITH POWERFUL VOICES

The Write Bridge presents two opposing ideas for creators  and readers to delve into—seriously or in fun—in order stretch our imaginations, to move beyond boundaries, to bridge the gap.
RNAL TOPIC: SOLITUDE and SOLIDARITYPUBLICATION DATE: MARCH 17, 202
AVAILABLE NOW HERE!


CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS & ARTISTS:
*denotes KAC member



Barry Barnes
Vern Barnet
Shelley Watts Barnhill
Stephanie A. Barrows
*Lindsey Bartlett
*Julie Ann Baker Brin
Patricia Cleveland
*Ian Cook
Louis Copt
*Brian Daldorph
*Anamarie Davis-Wilkins
*Thaddeus Dugan
Heather Duris
*Gretchen Cassel Eick
Andrew Evans
*Robert Fraga
*Amber Fraley
*Beth Gulley
*George Gurley
*Duane L. Herrmann
*D.A. Irsik
*Kelly W. Johnston
Kathleen Kaska
Julia Mathias Manglitz
Cathy Martin
J.A. McGovern
*Ronda Miller
*Peg Nichols
*Kevin Rabas
John Ritchie
*Troy Robinson
BruDe Rolfe
*Mark Scheel
*Diane Silver
Garold Sneegas
*Lori Stratton
*Connlyn Synclair
*Chuck Warner
*Barbara Waterman Peters
*Brenda White​
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Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest Winners 2023: Poetry

10/10/2023

 
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Theme Contest - 27 entries
Judge: Amy Sage Webb Baza

1st - [there she is], by Ashley Clayton Kay
2nd - How to Write a Poem, by Arlice W. Davenport
3rd - Once You Have Rounded the Sun, by Arlice W. Davenport
HM - To Tim, by Brenda White
HM - Aubade: Trying to Decide the Kind of Poet She'll Become, by Laura Lee Washburn
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Free Verse - 68 entries
Judge: George Franklin

1st - Why Blue Eyes Cry, by Janice Northerns
2nd - Ever Topeka, by Ruth Maus
3rd - The Wilding of Cynthia Ann Parker, by Janice Northerns
HM - Mike London's, by Janice Lee McClure
HM - You Are Not Diminished, by Janice Northerns
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Classical Poetry - 15 entries
Judge: Jeanine Hathaway

1st - Some Things Can't Be Taken Back, by Kristine A. Polansky
2nd - Great-Great-Grandma and the Kitchen Wall, by Kristine A. Polansky
3rd - To the Stars, by Janice Lee McClure

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Japanese Forms - 14 entries
Judge: David Romanda

1st - Cottonwood Seeds Land, by Ashley Clayton Kay
2nd - Railroaded, by Julie Ann Baker Brin
3rd - Pick-Up Sticks, by Iris E. Craver
HM - Prairie Wind, by Perry L. Shepard
HM - lavender splashes, by Duane R. Johnson

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Narrative Poetry - 29 entries
Judge: Aida Dziho-Sator

1st - Trout Valley, W.Va., March 31, 1886, a found poem from family letters, by Roland Sodowsky
2nd - His Gentle Hands, by Cynthia J. Ross
3rd - Prairie Return, by Linda Beth Wilson

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Whimsy - 26 entries
Judge: David Romanda

1st - Renaming Yoga Poses for Greater Accuracy, by Julie Ann Baker Brin
2nd - What am I made of? by Julie Ann Baker Brin
3rd - Slicing a Cantaloupe, by Janice Northerns
HM - Prescribe, by Julie Ann Baker Brin
HM - ​Manypaws, by Janice Lee McClure
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Performance Poetry - 8 entries
Judge: Avery A. Marshall

1st - The Music of You, by Ronda Miller
2nd - Money, Money, Money, by Amanda Little
3rd - Prairie Song, by Mary Powell
HM - Full Moon at Noon, by Mary Powell
HM - Reason to Call, by Duane R. Johnson


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New Poets
Judge: Ed Harkness

1st - Death, by Madison Morrill
2nd - The Laundry Brigade Marches On, by Heather G. Taylor
​3rd - Death Warps Time, by S.L. Brown


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Rural Voices - 30 entries
Judge: Sam Jack

1st - April 11, Again, by Laura Lee Washburn
2nd - Redneck Tornado, by Kelly Johnston
3rd - Wash House Memories, by Aimee L. Gross
HM - Mesquite and God, by Roland Sodowsky
HM - Landmarks, by Linda Ahrens-Brower
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Chapbooks - 11 entries
Judge: Sam Jack


Published Chapbooks
1st - Since Corona Ruined Our Trip to the Library, by Beth Gulley
2nd - Nurdles and Other Poems, by Allison deFreese


Craft Chapbooks
1st - Neighborhood Crazies, by Martha Wherry
2nd - A Common Yearning, by Cammie Funston
3rd - Skysong, by Julie A. Sellers
HM - Unfolding, by Iris E. Craver

Congratulations to the Kansas Authors Club Members Published in 105 Meadowlark Reader, the Animal Issue

5/29/2023

 
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The spring 2023 issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader features the following essays by Kansas Authors Club members: 
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A Cryptid Sighting in Kansas
by Denise Low (D2)

Love Bears All Things

by Amy D. Kliewer (D5)

Nocturnal Nuisance
by Elizabeth R. Schmidt (D5)

The Right Man for the Job

by Brenda L. White (D2)

Little Owl
by Lindsey Bartlett (D2)

My Heron

by Michael D. Graves (D2)

You Dirty Bird

by Jerilynn Jones Henrikson (D2)

Blessed is the Peacemaker

by Cheryl Suzanne Heide (D2)

Introducing the Black Tornado

by Cynthia Schaker (D5)

Buddy the Bookstore Beagle

by Linda Crowder (D6)

Princess With an Attitude

by Thomas N. Holmquist (D4)

Skiing in Kansas

by Boyd Bauman (D2)

Not a Playmate

by Carolyn Hall (D2)

Broken Heart

by Ann Vigola Anderson (D2)

I Did. I Saw a Camel!

by Marilyn Hope Lake (D2)

Invaders Via My Pre-vet Roommate

by Annabelle Corrick (D2)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

by Pamela Yenser (D7)

This Is Not About Dogs

​by Julie Ann Baker Brin (D5)
Congratulations to our members! 105 Meadowlark Reader is currently (through June 30, 2023) taking submissions on the theme of Landmarks. 
Submission Guidelines
Subscribe to 105 Meadowlark Reader

The State Library of Kansas Announces the 2022 Kansas Notable Books

6/2/2022

 
TOPEKA – This year’s list of Kansas Notable Books continues the tradition of celebrating the rich stories and culture of Kansas.

“The 2022 Kansas Notable Books list recognizes 15 books written by Kansans or about Kansas,” said Ray Walling, Acting State Librarian. “Through their work, the authors take readers on a journey through the wetlands of the Cheyenne Bottoms to the baseball fields of the Kansas City Monarchs. Readers can be transported back in time to the 1887 election in Argonia or to the epic battle of twin sisters enabled with superpowers facing a sinister force. This year’s titles include something for everyone. I hope all Kansans will visit their local public library to check out these wonderful titles.”

Each year, the Kansas Notable Books list features 15 books, published during the previous calendar year, which are about or set in Kansas, or written by a Kansas author. This year’s selection committee includes representatives of public, university, and school libraries, teachers, academics, and writers.

Kansas Notable Books authors will be awarded their medals at the Kansas Book Festival on September 24 at Washburn University. The public is invited.

Kansas Notable Books is a project of the Kansas Center for the Book, a program at the State Library of Kansas which is the state affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The mission of the Kansas Center for the Book is to highlight the state’s literary heritage and foster an interest in books, reading, and libraries.

For more information or questions about Kansas Notable Books program, visit kslib.info/notablebooks
or contact the State Library of Kansas at 785-296-3296 or email [email protected].

2022 Kansas Notable Books

Ava: A Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet by Mandy Kern (Great Bend), illustrated by Onalee Nicklin (Emporia), Meadowlark Press

Blue Collar Saint: Poems by Brenda Leigh White (Emporia), Meadowlark Press

Field Journal: Volume XIII, 2021, The Santa Fe Trail by Symphony in the Flint Hills (Cottonwood Falls)

From This Moment: A Novel by Kim Vogel Sawyer (Hutchinson), Waterbrook

The Greatest Thing: A Story About Buck O'Neil by Kristy Nerstheimer (Overland Park), illustrated by Christian Paniagua, (Queens, NY) The Little Fig

Haven’s Secret (The Powers Book 1) by Melissa Benoist, Jessica Benoist (Council Grove), Mariko Tamaki, Abrams Books

How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine (Lawrence), Microcosm Publishing

Killing Dragons: Order of the Dolphin by Kristie Clark (Jetmore), Delphi Imprint

Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella by Kate McIntyre (Worcester MA), University of Georgia Press

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women by Nicole Perry (Lawrence), University Press of Kansas

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire (Norman OK), Princeton University Press
Stormbreak: A Seafire Novel by Natalie C. Parker (Lawrence), Razorbill

A Vote for Susanna: The First Woman Mayor by Karen M. Greenwald (Rockville MD), illustrated
by Sian James (Cambridge UK), Albert Whitman & Co.

White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland by Dick Lehr (Belmont MA), Mariner Books

Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail by Brian Daldorph (Lawrence), University Press of Kansas

For more information about the State Library of Kansas, please visit https://kslib.info.

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Congratulations

Kansas Authors Club members on the 2022 Notable list:

Brenda Leigh White - District 2

Brian Daldorph - District 2

Kristie Clark - District 7

​Meadowlark Press - Member at Large

The Write Bridge, by Anamcara Press

5/8/2022

 
The newest issue of The Write Bridge, by Anamcara Press, includes the work of many Kansas Authors Club Members: Amber Fraley (D2), Peg Nichols (D2), David Hann (D2), Kathleen Kaska (D2), Boyd Bauman (D2), John L. Swainston (D2), Lindsey Bartlett (D2), Beth Gulley (D2), Debra Irsik (D2), Fred Applehanz (D1), Brenda L. White (D2), Brian Daldorph (D2), Iris Craver (D2), Ronda Miller (D2), Perry Shepard (D2), Micki Carroll (D2)
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View the issue here
Anamcara Press will begin accepting submissions for the Next edition of The Write Bridge June 1, 2022. Topics: Fortitude & Toploftiness

The Bicycle Issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader: A Kansas Journal of Creative Nonfiction

4/25/2022

 
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Congratulations to Kansas Authors Club members with essays in the “True Bicycle Stories” issue (#3) of 105 Meadowlark Reader.

(D2) Bicycles: A Love Story by Boyd Bauman

(D5) Where I Like by Julie Ann Baker Brin

(D1) BlueBoy by Annabelle Corrick

(D2) A Green Bike by Monica Graves

(D2) The Bucket List by Beth Gulley

(D2) Going to C’ago by Carolyn Hall

(D2) Whoa by Jerilynn Henrikson,

(D2) Blue English Racer by Deb Irsik

(D2) My First, Last, and Only Bike by Sally Jadlow

(D5) What I Learned from Riding the Bicycle by Amy Deckert Kliewer

(D5) Bicycles in Kansas Yards by Sandee Lee

(D2) Dust on My Shoulders by Kerry Moyer

(D2) A Rolling Start by Peg Nichols

(D6) I Didn’t Have a Bicycle but I had a Paper Route by Jim Potter

(D5) Country Biking in Kansas by Cynthia C. Schaker

(D1) They Traded My Horse for a Bicycle by Anne Spry

(D1) The Race by Barbara Waterman-Peters

(D2) Bicycles: Bane or Boon by Brenda White

(D2) On Shaky Wheels by Mary Kate Wilcox

​(D7) Bike Ride by Sheree Wingo
 

The Bicycle Issue will be delivered to Partner Bookstores and Subscribers beginning in May.

The submission period for the Fall 2022 issue is May 1-June 30. The theme is (True) Food Stories.
Learn more at 105MeadowlarkReader.com
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About 105 Meadowlark Reader

Our Mission
To create a forum for sharing the work of Kansas writers.
To build and uplift the community of Kansas writers.  
To share and promote resources for Kansas writers.
 
105 Meadowlark Reader will strive to represent the diversity of writers in Kansas.
 
105 Meadowlark Reader is a journal of creative nonfiction by and for writers who live or have lived in Kansas.

Each issue
will contain a directory of area resources for writers. Publishers, printers, editors, book designers, cover/interior artists, bookstores, writing clubs, and anyone who provides services to writers is invited to submit details for our directory at no charge.

Brenda White Presents March 19, 2022

3/13/2022

 
District 2 invites all members to their March Meeting.

Please join us March 19th, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
Flint Hills Tech College
3301 W. 18th Ave
Emporia, KS
Attend in person or via Zoom
(complete form below by March 18, 5pm, to assure you get a Zoom link to attend.)
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Brenda White is a native of Emporia, Kansas, but her heart resides on the family farm in Morris County. Her favorite place in Kansas is the woods and creek on the farm. There she has seen snakes fishing in a puddle and found a baby western box turtle at the natural spring feeding into the creek. She has had poetry published in Quivira and The Flint Hills Review. What she loves most about living in Kansas is the beauty of the Flint Hills and the state motto, Ad Astra per Aspera, “to the stars through difficulties.” Her first book of poetry, Blue Collar Saint, was published Fall 2021, by Meadowlark Press.

December 4 Book Launch Invitation - Brenda Leigh White (D2)

11/30/2021

 
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You are invited

The book launch for Brenda Leigh White’s collection of poetry, Blue Collar Saint, will be held at Twin Rivers Winery, 627 Commercial, Emporia, Saturday, December 4, 4:00-6:00pm. The author, along with friends and supporters, will share work from Brenda’s collection followed by a short open mic opportunity for attendees.
 
White is a native of Emporia, Kansas, but her heart resides on the family farm in Morris County. Her most favorite place in Kansas is the woods and creek on the farm. There she has seen snakes fishing in a puddle and found a baby western box turtle at the natural spring feeding into the creek. She has had poetry published in Quivira and The Flint Hills Review. What she loves most about living in Kansas is the beauty of the flint hills and the state motto, ad astra per aspera, “to the stars through difficulties.” 

Cheryl Unruh, Kansas Notable author, says, “With unapologetic honesty and a masterful use of language, Brenda Leigh White, in Blue Collar Saint, cycles through whimsy, curiosity, and harsh reality. Always questioning the world around her, White writes with sharpness, clarity, and wit, leaving the reader alternately gutted and longing for more.” 

Emporia poet Kerry Moyer says, “The verses in Blue Collar Saint were born on the assembly line, in the working-class spaces and places of this poetic traveler’s journey. White shares her scars and lays bare a resilience rooted in wit, intelligence, and strength. This is a fine collection, from an authentic new voice in Kansas poetry.”


Blue Collar Saint is available for order through meadowlark-books.square.site and may be ordered through any bookseller. Learn more at www.meadowlark-books.com.

Members Published in 105 Meadowlark Reader, Issue #2

11/2/2021

 
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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) 
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The journal is currently taking submissions for issue #3 to be published in the spring of 2022. 

Theme: True Bicycle Stories
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