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Workshop Schedule
At the
historic Cottonwood Ranch, in a place where in the late
1800's, Fenton Pratt kept a daily journal, the Friends
of the Cottonwood are proud to continue the tradition of
writing by presenting the first of their Writers
workshops. Please join us on Saturday, October 30, 2010
for a day long program featuring Kansas authors: Bette
James, Charlotte Hinger and Bob Day.
Schedule:
8:30-9:15
Registration
9:20-10:15
Charlotte Hinger—Historical Writing/answer questions
(parlor)
10:30-11:20
Bette James—Read selections of poetry/answer questions
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11:30-1:00
Lunch tour and/or explore the grounds
1:15-3:00
Bob Day—working session with critiques (pre-submitted)
(parlor)
1:30-3:00
Appointments with Charlotte or Betty (pre arranged)
(office)
3:00 –
4:30
Open to the Public--Book signings, visiting with all 3
authors.
(If
there are few or no items submitted, then in the time
remaining, the authors will do a composite panel.)
Join
us at the Cottonwood Ranch on Highway 24 between Hoxie
and Hill City, Kansas. The day will start with
registration between 8:30 and 9:15. The cost will be
$20.00 plus lunch. Coffee and cookies will be available
throughout the day.
Lunch
arrangements have been made with the Prairie Junction
Restaurant in Morland, Kansas. They will be providing a
sack lunch for each of the participants. Or you may
bring your own, if you wish. Short tour(s) will be
available during the 90 minutes allowed for Lunch or you
may explore on your own.
Mr.
Day has consented to give critiques of poetry or fiction
selections of previously submitted material, if any
writers wish to participate. Submissions will have
to be received by October 2, 2010 in order to allow
sufficient time for review.
Please
direct questions or submissions to cottonwoodranch24@yahoo.com
If you do not have access to a computer and wish to
submit, you may use the following address:
Gayle
James, P.O. Box 265, Lenora, Kansas 67645.
Between 3:00 and 4:30
the event will be open to the public (not just workshop
attendees). All three authors will be available to visit
with those interested and you will have a chance to
purchase a personally autographed copy of their works.
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Guest Writer Biographies
Bette James,
since
her retirement from teaching English, has been involved
in publishing both prose and poetry in anthologies such
as I Am Wherever You Are, Let Us Not Forget, Forget
Me Knots from the Front Porch, Whispers of Inspiration,
and others. In addition, she has published several
books—Christmas Dreams, a book of seasonal
poetry, Bless the Children, a book of poems about
children, and Colorado Cravings, a book of
history, recipes, and lifestyle planning which James
co-authored. All three books were designed and
illustrated by a former student and HHS graduate, Pam
Martin.
James’
most recent publication is Introspection and
Environment, a collaboration with her son, Mark.
This volume is a book of Mark’s nature photography and
Bette’s poetry, reflecting the beauty and value of the
planet and the need to care for it effectively.
James
also works as copy editor for Imaging Notes
magazine and recently edited two children’s books,
The Last Little Polar Bear and My Mom’s Not Cool.
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Charlotte Hinger is a native Kansan who lived in
Hoxie before moving to Loveland, CO.
After
publishing several short stories in national magazines,
and editing a two volume county history project, she
completed a first novel,
Come Spring.,
a historical novel which won the Western Writers of
America Medicine Pipe Bearers Award. Charlotte
subsequently published a number of mystery short stories
and articles.
Her
short story, The Family Rose, first published in
the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was also later
included in two anthologies, Murder to Music and
Death on the Verandah. Her second novel,
Deadly Descent, a Kansas mystery, won the Arizona
Book Publishers Best Mystery Award.
She is
currently working on a book dealing with 19th Century
Kansas African American Politicians. Her next mystery,
Lethal Lineage will be published March 2011.
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Robert Day’s
novel The Last Cattle Drive was a
Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His short fiction has
won a number of prizes and citations, including two
Seaton Prizes, a Pen Faulkner/NEA prize, and Best
American Short story and Pushcart citations. His fiction
has been published by Tri-Quarterly, Black Warrior
Review, Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly
and New Letters among other belles-lettres
magazines. He is the author of two novellas, In My
Stead and the Four Wheel Drive Quartet,
as well as Speaking French in Kansas, a
collection of short stories. His nonfiction has
been published in the Washington Post Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine, Forbes FYI, Modern Maturity, World
Literature Today, and American Scholar.
As a
member of the Prairie Writers Circle his essays have
been reprinted in numerous newspapers and journals
nationwide and on such internet sites as Counterpunch.
Recent book publications include We Should Have Come
By Water (poems) and The Committee to Save the
World (literary non-fiction).
Among
his awards and fellowships are a National Endowment to
the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Yaddo and McDowell
Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award, and the
Edgar Wolfe Award for distinguished fiction. His
teaching positions include The Iowa Writers Workshop;
The University of Kansas and the Graduate Faculty at
Montaigne College, The University of Bordeaux.
He is
past President of the Associated Writing Programs,
founder and former director of the Rose O’Neill
Literary House and founder / publisher of the Literary
House Press at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland
where he is the Adjunct Professor of English Literature.
Robert Day is represented by Russell & Volkening, NY
NY.
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