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Meet the Authors of Our Luck Issue - #9, Ships in May 2025

 

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.  

The Great Schwan's Ice Cream Escape by Boyd Bauman

Dreams Do Come True by Margie Burton

Fate, Karma, or Luck by Dan Clemens

Opossum by Brian Daldorph

Giants by Beth Gulley

Transplant by Marley Hays

$10 Movie Props by Roger Heineken

What's Luck Got to Do with It by Jerilynn Jones Henrikson

Was It Luck? by Duane L. Herrmann

Kismet and the Kitchen by Julie Johnson

The Swinging Bridge Landmark by Vicki L. Julian

Making Luck by Trish Kinkel

The Grit Queen by Amy Kliewer

Rippling Out by Candace Plett Krebs

The Lucky 1% by Evan Kreger

Logjam by Dave Leiker

Rescuing Ike by Danton McDiffett

My First Night in Kansas by Karen T. Miller

The Lord Almighty, an Errant Sandal, and the Barista Who Would Not Have Me by Kerry Moyer

My First Cattle Drive by Robert W. Phillips

Born Lucky by Robert Rebein

The Luck of the Luggage by Cynthia C. Schaker

Sunflower Luck by Barbara L. Schmidt

The Bat That Flew Into Hell by Harland Schuster

Locked in a Cathedral and Freed by a Legend by Derek Simmons

Luck of the Draw by Mason Taylor-Taite

Clover by Alicia Troike

Fifty-Fifty by Leon Unruh

Recovering Glenn by Brenda L. White

The Ice and the Tire by Sheree L. Wingo

Accomplices Issue: Cover Reveal

 

105 Meadowlark Reader / Accomplices / Issue 8: Fall 2024 / Cover Photo by Dave Leiker. PrairieDust.net Subject: Sarah Beth Pringle and Elmira.

We were thrilled to find this image from photographer Dave Leiker for the Accomplices issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader. Don’t these two look like they are up to something? A girl and her horse, off on an adventure. The “Accomplices” issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader will ship in November. Please plan to pick your copy up from your nearest 105 Bookstore Partner (see the list below) or make sure your subscription with us is current. Our 8th issue, with the theme of Accomplices, features 40 essays representing 30 Kansas counties. Is your 105 collection missing an issue? Individual copies can be ordered via our website. We are currently running a sale for issues 1-6 (regularly $101.94, on sale for $84). This would be a great time to encourage your local library to add 105 Meadowlark Reader to their Kansas bookshelves! Our journal is printed in Kansas, too! Thinking about writing a true story for us? The next theme is LUCK! Read our guidelines for submissions here. We start taking submissions on November 1, 2024.

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Meet the Authors of Our Accomplices Issue, #8, Shipping in November 2024

We asked writers to share their accomplice stories, and Kansas writers delivered! The next issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader brings you 40 true stories written by current and former Kansans. Is your subscription current? You don't want to miss this issue.

Granny and Her Peacekeeper by Ann Vigola Anderson

Between the Pages by Lindsey Bartlett

Copilot by Boyd Bauman

Resting Place by Riley Brokeshoulder

Pflugerville by Cathy Callen

The Special Assignment by Linda Cook

Holy Hound Dog by Annabelle Corrick

Fait Accompli by Phyllis Marsh Dorcas

Uncle Cal’s Knife by Roger K. Droz

Aliens Have Landed by Angel Edenburn

A Child’s Crime by Sue Flowers

Economy of Eggs by Carolyn Hall

Students-On-A-Stick by Roger Heineken

They Simply Could Not Do It Alone by Jerilynn Jones Henrikson

Gift Conspiracy by Duane L. Herrmann

Laverne Johnson by Tom Holmquist

Margaret and Marilyn Take the Best Ride at the Fair by Marilyn Hope Lake

The Four Musketeers, a.k.a. The Sucky Mis-Adventure by Deb Irsik

High School Hi-Jinks by Julie Johnson

Pen Pals on the Plains by Kiesa Kay

Secret Santa by Mary-Lane Kamberg

Halloweening by James Kenyon

Gumshoes by Amy Kliewer

Kittens in Kansas by Evan Kreger

The Best of Accomplices by Danton McDiffet

Under the Streetlights by Cynthia Mines

Walt Disney and Me by Peg Nichols

Kindergarten Accomplice by Esther Deckert Sayler

A Sticky Situation by Cynthia C. Schaker

James, John, and a Loose Cannon by Harland Schuster

The Clauses Crash the Christmas Dance by Julie A. Sellers

The Trickle Down of Terrorism: Today’s Signs of the Mayhem Perpetrated by a Mob in 1916 by Sandra Lou Taylor

Sisters in Cahoots by Mason Taylor-Taite

Thomas Justagato by Victoria Vaughn

Wakarusa by Primo Ventello

You Want Fries with Your Dead Body? by Chuck Warner

Nobody Told Us We Couldn’t by Barbara Waterman-Peters

My Hero, Bill by Brenda L. White

Driver’s Education by Sheree L. Wingo

Wild Girls, Wonderful Women by Michelle Zumbrum 

Meet the Authors of Our Intersections Issue, #7, Shipping May 2024

 

Our Intersections issue features 33 authors representing 24 counties. This issue includes 13 never-before-published-in-105 authors and three new counties (Graham, Jefferson, and Pawnee).

We are pleased to share these true Kansas stories with readers of 105 Meadowlark Reader, shipping in May 2024.

“The Middle of Nowhere” by Alicia Troike 

“Between the Dead and Me” by Amanda L. Little 

“Flowers and Memories” by Amanda Schultz 

“Friendship Forged over Fetal Pig” by Amy D. Kliewer  

“Last Letter” by Ann Christine Fell 

“The Trader Joe’s Egg Aisle” by Audrey Phillips

“A Second Meeting in Manhattan” by Barbara Waterman-Peters 

“Can You Tell Me How to Get to Oklahoma City?” by Beth Gulley 

“Waves of Intersection” by Boyd Bauman 

“Seventeenth and Washburn” by Carlos Velez 

“Railroad Ties” by C. E. Emmer 

“Technobaby Crossroads” by Charles L. Martin 

“A Retirement Revelation” by Chuck Warner 

“Getting Pregnant at My Age?” By Errin D. Moore 

“A Love Story” by James Kenyon

“At the Intersection of Kansas and Anywhere in the World” by Cynthia Mines 

“Orphan Annie’s Secret Clubhouse” by Jennifer Broadstreet Hess 

“Families and Fates of Robert Parks” by Jim Potter  

“Harper Court and Minneapolis Street” by Julie Johnson  

“The Town at the Crossroads” by Julie A. Sellers 

“The Sparrow’s Whistle” by Julie Stielstra 

“Intersecting with the Mob” by Linda Cook 

“Particulars of Place” by Candace Plett Krebs 

“What a Tai Chi Master Taught Me About Writing” by Mary-Lane Kamberg 

“Planting Coins” by Matthew Porubsky 

“Double Cousins and the Carnival Keepsake” by Roger Heineken 

“Not in My Plan” by Sandee Lee  

“Night Train to Frankfurt” by Stan Finger 

“Library Cards” by Susan Brinkman  

“Crossroads” by Thomas Holmquist 

“Lessons from the Intersection of Tallgrass and Tabor Valley” by Tim Keane 

“The Road to Kansas” by Victoria Vaughn 

“Summer Running” by Walter Moak 

 

Pushcart Prize Nominations

 Dear 105 Readers and Writers, 

We are proud to announce the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to the following authors.

Flesh Made Word, by Boyd Bauman (issue #6)

Grave Diggers, by Susan D. Brinkman (issue #5)

Revolution at the End of the World, by Rex Buchanan (issue #6)

A Pet for the Ages, by Phyllis McKenzie (issue #5)

Kitty's Tale, by Harland J. Schuster (Issue #5)

The Garden of Eden in Concrete, by Jesse Tyler (issue #6)

 

 More about the Pushcart Prize and Publication can be found here.

Much love and good reading!

Tracy & Cheryl

Meet the Authors of our Landmark Stories, Issue 6

 

Our Landmark issue has 33 authors representing 29 counties. 

James Aber - Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield

James Aber & Susan Aber - Santa Fe Trail

Lindsey Bartlett - Land of the Post Rock

Boyd Bauman - Flesh Made Word

Mary Ann Blaufuss - Landmarks of My Youth

Jenna Brack - Dad's Kansas Tours

Lori Brack - Central Kansas Rock Gods

Rex Buchanan - Revolution at the End of the World

Linda Cook - Anderson Hall

Ann Christine Fell - American's Most Famous Unknown Woman

Stan Finger - The Tunnel of Trees

Monica Graves - Stone Arch Bridge Crossing

Carolyn Hall - Guideposts of the Plains

Cheryl Heide - Flyover Harlan

Thomas Holmquist - Soldier's Cap

Marlysue Holmquist - Lovisa's Landmarks

Nancy Julien Kopp - Johnny Kaw Speaks to a Child

Marilyn Hope Lake - "Downunder" in Kansas

Jesse Tyler - The Garden of Eden in Concrete

Kaye McIntyre - Exploring Kansas

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - Castle Rock in the Light of Day

Rick Nichols - Hams and Eggs

John Olson - A Family Landmark

Harland Schuster - That Time Kansas Grew by Over 600 Feet

Julie A. Sellers - Harvey Girl

Melissa Stanton - Aeolian Sands

Julie Stielstra - Eleanor, Daughter

Sandee Lee - Wrong Way Tornado

Leon Unruh - The Invisible Map

Victoria Vaughn - Ascending the High Plains

Barbara Waterman-Peters - At the Capitol

Jon Kelly Yenser - Intemperate Wichita

Michelle Zumbrum - The Farm That Built Us

A Note to our Readers and Writers

 

Thank you for taking this journey with us! Since we published our “Beginnings” issue in the spring of 2021, we have shared stories by so many talented writers from across the state. We hope that you are thinking about writing for us, too!

As of Issue #5, the animal issue— we have published 117 Kansas-connected writers we have published stories from 70 Kansas counties, we have added the Ad Astra Award for excellence in writing and have plans to continue honoring two writers per issue ($50 cash prize per award), we have partnered with seven independent Kansas bookstores, we have shipped copies of 105 Meadowlark Reader to readers in 21 US states and to the UK and Japan.

And we have plans for more!

How can you help? Ask your local library to subscribe, share news of your love for 105 on social media or with your local media sources, submit to our next issue and share our call for entries with your writing and storytelling friends, advertise, subscribe, submit resources to our directory for writers (free!) show your support by wearing a 105 Meadowlark T-shirt (details below). 105 T-Shirts - 2023 Edition! $22 Order Today Missing an issue of 105? Complete your collection today.