On April 1, members of the Emporia Writers Group took the stage at White Library on the campus of Emporia State University. Many in the group are also members of Kansas Authors Club. District 2 member Tracy Million Simmons reads with her friend Gena Mantz. Kerry Moyer Curtis Becker Kevin Rabas Cheryl Unruh Deb Irsik
District 2 members Curtis Becker, Deb, Irsik, Tracy Million Simmons, Kerry Moyer, and Cheryl Unruh join other members of the Emporia Writers group for a April Fool's Day treat. Emporia, KS - Emporia State University has announced literature events happening around Emporia this fall. District 2 members Kevin Rabas (11/9) and Curtis Becker (9/13) are scheduled to read on campus. The Emporia Writers Group, which includes D2 members Hazel Hart, Deb Irsik, Tracy Million Simmons, and Curtis Becker, will share pieces related to seasons on Monday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.
Emporia, KS - Hazel Hart, Deb Irsik, Tracy Million Simmons, and Curtis Becker will share pieces related to seasons on Monday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.
State President (and district 2 member) Ronda Miller appeared with Olive Sullivan (district 3) and Izzy Wasserstein at a reading in Pittsburg on July 21. The event was attended by KOAM television (view at this link: http://www.koamtv.com/clip/14507048/book-launch-10pm-7-21) All three poets are published by Meadowlark Books (district 2 member) of Emporia.
Our next meeting will be Saturday, May 12, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in one of the lower-level meeting rooms at the Lawrence Public Library (Vermont St., between 7th and 8th streets.)
I will do a short presentation on “Endings”; how do you want the reader to feel after reading the first chapter of your book? The last chapter? A poem or short story? I will distribute some papers with the bottom portion folder over. You’ll read each piece with the apparent ending. Then you’ll unfold the paper and read the last sentence that changes the mood of the piece. If you have any “endings” that you think work well, please share them during the read-around afterwards. Some news: Nominations for the 2018 KAC Awards of Merit are now open. You will find information about the awards on pp. 47-48 in the 2018 Yearbook. The three awards are Award of Service, Achievement, and Special Accomplishment. The deadline for nominations is July 1, 2018. You may tear the page from your yearbook and send it. Best wishes to Andy who will not be joining us anymore because he has taken a job in South Dakota. Congrats to District 2 Members who were published in the 2018 Yearbook: Maryann Barry, Edna Bell-Pearson, Cathy Callen, Brian Daldorph, Wendy Devilbiss, Jean Grant, Michael Graves, Monica Graves, Hazel Hart, Tom Mach, Debra Irsik, Vicki Julian, Carol Katsantoness, Betty Laird, Norm Ledgin, Ronda Miller, Peg Nichols, Marilyn Page, Kevin Rabas, Mark Scheel, Tyler Robert Sheldon, Perry Shepherd, and Tracy Million Simmons. (Note: District 2 had more members published in the yearbook than any other District!) I hope you all come to the meeting and read aloud what was published in the Yearbook. More congrats to District 2 members, Brian Daldorph and Ronda Miller, who read some of their work at the recent 2018 Poetry Fair at The Lawrence Art Center. You were excellent! I leave you with this quote from the famous sports writer, Red Smith: “Writing is the easiest thing in the world. Just sit down in front of a typewriter and open a vein.” D2 President Mike Hartnett The following district 2 members read at The Literary Wolrd of William Allen White, hosted by ESU Library/Special Collections Department, on April 1 - Curtis Becker, Deb Irsik, Hazel Hart, Jerilynn Jones Henrikson, and Tracy Million Simmons were among those from the Emporia Writers Group who read on topics of childhood, or things written as children.
Meadowlark Books, District 2, Emporia, hosted a Meet & Greet event at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore in Emporia, featuring books by seven Kansas Authors Club members. Cheryl Unruh, D2, Emporia - Walking on Water; Ronda Miller, D2, Lawrence - WaterSigns & MoonStain; Michael D. Graves, D2, Emporia - Shadow of Death; Kevin Rabas, D2, Emporia - Songs for My Father; Olive Sullivan, D3, Pittsburg - Wandering Bone; Tracy Million Simmons, D2, Emporia - A Life in Progress; and James Kenyon, D7, Council Bluffs, Iowa - A Cow for College. The event as featured in the Emporia Gazette. Cheryl Unruh, District 2, Emporia, talks about Meadowlark Books at the Meet & Greet event at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore, Emporia.
Tracy Million Simmons, District 2, Emporia, published a collection of short stories titled, A Life in Progress and Other Short Stories.
In this collection of short stories, Simmons captures slices of life, glimpses of everyday people and everyday thoughts and actions, and the many moments — touching, amusing, happy, and sad — of lives in progress. This book is an intimate peek into a writer’s stash, written across the decades, an experience of timelessness and the human condition. Through fiction, these stories reveal relatable truths. About the book, Cheryl Unruh writes: “Tracy Million Simmons shows clearly the moving parts of relationships. Her stories reveal the irreversible ties of family. She shows the push-and-pull between spouses, between parent and child, between dear friends, and we see how we’re all recklessly and joyfully bound one to another.” |
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