Kansas City's Source of Literary Expression!
Located in the heart of Kansas City, The Writers Place is a literary community center, library, and gathering place for writers and readers. Since 1992, our role has been to provide support, resources, guidance and inspiration for those in our region who care about the word as art.
DON'T MISS ...
In town over Labor Day weekend? Authors Whitney Terrell and J.C. Hallman visit The Writers Place on Friday, September 3. Hallman kicks off our new session of workshops with “From Telescope to Microcosm” on Saturday, September 4.
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J.C. Hallman is the author of two books of nonfiction, The Chess Artist and The Devil is a Gentleman, as well as of a book of stories, The Hospital for Bad Poets. In August 2010, St. Martin 's Press published In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise, which was inspired by Hallman's having grown up on a street called Utopia Road. Excerpts from In Utopia appeared in Tin House and The Believer, and one chapter will appear in the 2010 Best American Travel Writing. He lives in St. Paul . His website is http://www.jchallman.com/. |
| Whitney Terrell is the author of The Huntsman, a New York Times notable book, and The King of Kings County, which was selected as a best book of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor. The Hodder Fellow in fiction at Princeton University for 2008-2009, he was named one of 20 "writers to watch" under 40 by members of the National Book Critics Circle. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Details, The New York Observer, and on National Public Radio. In 2006, he embedded with the 22nd infantry in Baghdad. He is the New Letters Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
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Dance Happens! Come see dance created on the spot! Local poets inspire performances by Kacico Dance Company and River Cow Orchestra - Saturday, September 4, 2010, 6:30 PM
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Our "Words to Weigh" Davis Grove Haiku and Nature Poetry Contest is now underway. Poets, don't miss this chance to have your work appear on a permanent monument along the Riverfront Heritage Trail. Deadline for submissions is SEPTEMBER 15. Visit this page to learn more. |
Save the date: Our next open house, Get Connected with Literary Magazines, is Thursday, September 30. This free event features a panel discussion with the editors of The Missouri Review, New Letters, and Pleiades, moderated by the Johnson County Library's John Mark Eberhart. Come for the program and stay for drinks, food, and networking with fellow writers.
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