Kansas City's Source of Literary Expression!
The Writers Place, Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc., has been serving the Midwest community since 1992. Located in the heart of Kansas City, The Writers Place is a literary community center, library, and gathering place for writers, readers and the general public.Our role in the community is to provide support, resources, guidance and inspiration for those in our region who care about the "word" as art.
Coming Soon to The Writers Place
February Events
NEW WRITING WORKSHOPS are online. Click
here to read course descriptions.
NEW PROGRAM: WRITERS WRITING
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Cost per session: $3 / $2 members
Come write at The Writers Place! Join fellow writers at for a “write-in.” This evening will begin with a pot luck and discussion session followed by quiet work time. Click
here to learn more.
IMAGINATION AND PLACE ANTHOLOGY READING
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Join Lawrence's new Imagination & Place Press for the launch of its second annual anthology,
Imagination & Place: Ownership. This eclectic anthology offers an array of poems, essays, and fiction. Contributors will be on hand to read from their submissions.
"BLINDNESS ISN'T BLACK" VSA READING
Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Join storytellers, poets, and visual artists whose work appears in "Blindness Isn't Black: an anthology of work by Missouri writers and artists with disabilities." VSA Arts of Missouri is a statewide organization that promotes the work of artists with disabilities.
WRITERS WRITING
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Work on your writing at The Writers Place! The venue will be open for community members to access our library and work on their writing. This event is designed to provide a
quiet time for concentration and writing rather than socializing. This Writers Writing session does
not include a pot luck.
RIVERFRONT READING
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Featuring Jason Ryberg, Iris Applequist and Lea A. Eliot
Jason Ryberg and Iris Applequist co-authored
Blunt Trauma, a collection of poems released by Spartan Press. Cousin to T.S. Eliot, Lea A. Eliot is writing and illustrating her first book calling on her extensive education in a variety of fields.
POETRY OUT LOUD
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 10:00 am
Talented high school students dual for top honors in poetry performance. The area winner moves on to statewide competition.
THE WRITERS PLACE POETRY READING SERIES @ THE JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY- 9875 W. 87th, Overland Park, KS
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Featuring Kevin Rabas & Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Kevin Rabas, co-editor of Flint Hills Review, has two books of poetry,
Bird’s Horn and Other Poems and
Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano. Lindsey Martin-Bowen's full-length poetry collection,
Standing on the Edge of the World, was named one of the top ten poetry books for 2008 by
The Gulf Times and the
Kansas City Star.
WRITERS WRITING
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Work on your writing at The Writers Place! The venue will be open for community members to access our library and work on their writing. This event is designed to provide a
quiet time for concentration and writing rather than socializing. This Writers Writing session does
not include a pot luck.
THE WRITERS PLACE READING
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Featuring Walter Bargen and Denise Low
Hear two Poet Laureates! Bargen, the first for Missouri, 2008-2009. Low for Kansas, 2007 to 2009. Bargen has published 13 poetry books and two poetry chapbooks. Low is the author of ten collections of poetry and six books of essays, including a biography of Langston Hughes (co-authored with Thomas Pecore Weso). Both have won numerous awards and honors.
MAIN STREET RAG POETRY SHOWCASE
Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Featuring Lola Nation and Greta Wilkens
Nation has studied under Allen Ginsberg and Tom Robbins, co-edited a Venice community newspaper for the Poetry & Arts section, and has been published in Cheerybleeds, Thug Works and more. Wilkens is publisher of "Behind the Stove," a quarterly poetry and art magazine. Her poetry mixes humor with philosophy and personal observations.
Reading with open mic to follow.
THE WRITERS PLACE SALON
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Claim your ten minutes of fame! Share poetry, songs, plays, short stories, essays, and more with a congenial group of fellow writers and listeners. Hosted by Sharon Eiker.
SPECIAL UMKC POETRY READING
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 7:30 pm
Featuring Martha Serpas and Hadara Bar-Nadav
Martha Serpas is the author of two collections of poetry,
Côte Blanche and The
Dirty Side of the Storm. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Nation, and more. Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of
A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, winner of the Margie Book Prize. Two chapbooks,
Show Me Yours (winner of the Midwest Poets Series Award) and
The Soft Arcade are forthcoming in 2010
SPECIAL EVENT READING
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Novelist Fred Arroyo is brought to you as a collaboration between the Riverfront Reading Series and Latino Writers Collective. Arroyo's novel,
The Region of Lost Names was a finalist for the 2008 Premio Aztlán Prize and a finalist for the 2008 One Brown Book, One Nation Reading Program.
March Events
WRITING WORKSHOP: STARTING THE NOVEL
Saturday, March 6
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Instructor Brian Shawver
RIVERFRONT READING
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Featuring poets Joan Langmack and Carl Rhoden.
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