tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90799137116895134402024-03-13T05:04:38.235-05:00105 Meadowlark ReaderA Kansas Journal of Creative NonfictionTracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-30394261760796031072024-02-06T11:23:00.003-06:002024-02-06T11:23:26.990-06:00Meet the Authors of Our Intersections Issue, #7, Shipping May 2024<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iTBcsyKekBTLjJNWBXKNF7B1FJyGD2cGYHQzqZifF_JISXkI2pqJjb1joR8o32J8BcJVtCNfllnyqwup4ZxzyvApnjxKJB32hJuyTbVnuh9vwyiSnxybZHNGcfnB_H7Bk2aORj1zTuE3SA7AxrQSDGke0UHYAgDECLokX31pP7leu9AW7CTfsMm_MuaU/s3180/author%20pics%20issue%207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2873" data-original-width="3180" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iTBcsyKekBTLjJNWBXKNF7B1FJyGD2cGYHQzqZifF_JISXkI2pqJjb1joR8o32J8BcJVtCNfllnyqwup4ZxzyvApnjxKJB32hJuyTbVnuh9vwyiSnxybZHNGcfnB_H7Bk2aORj1zTuE3SA7AxrQSDGke0UHYAgDECLokX31pP7leu9AW7CTfsMm_MuaU/w640-h578/author%20pics%20issue%207.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>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).</p><p>We are pleased to share these true Kansas stories with readers of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>, shipping in May 2024.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“The
Middle of Nowhere” by Alicia Troike</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Between
the Dead and Me” by Amanda L. Little</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Flowers
and Memories” by Amanda Schultz</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Friendship
Forged over Fetal Pig” by Amy D. Kliewer </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Last
Letter” by Ann Christine Fell</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“The
Trader Joe’s Egg Aisle” by Audrey Phillips</span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“A
Second Meeting in Manhattan” by Barbara Waterman-Peters</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Can
You Tell Me How to Get to Oklahoma City?” by Beth Gulley</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Waves
of Intersection” by Boyd Bauman</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Seventeenth
and Washburn” by Carlos Velez</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Railroad
Ties” by C. E. Emmer</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Technobaby
Crossroads” by Charles L. Martin</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“A
Retirement Revelation” by Chuck Warner</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Getting
Pregnant at My Age?” By Errin D. Moore</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“A
Love Story” by James Kenyon</span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“At
the Intersection of Kansas and Anywhere in the World” by Cynthia Mines</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Orphan
Annie’s Secret Clubhouse” by Jennifer Broadstreet Hess</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Families
and Fates of Robert Parks” by Jim Potter </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Harper
Court and Minneapolis Street” by Julie Johnson </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“The
Town at the Crossroads” by Julie A. Sellers</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“The
Sparrow’s Whistle” by Julie Stielstra</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Intersecting
with the Mob” by Linda Cook</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Particulars
of Place” by Candace Plett Krebs</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“What
a Tai Chi Master Taught Me About Writing” by Mary-Lane Kamberg</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Planting
Coins” by Matthew Porubsky</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Double
Cousins and the Carnival Keepsake” by Roger Heineken</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Not
in My Plan” by Sandee Lee </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Night
Train to Frankfurt” by Stan Finger</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Library
Cards” by Susan Brinkman </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Crossroads”
by Thomas Holmquist</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Lessons
from the Intersection of Tallgrass and Tabor Valley” by Tim Keane</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“The
Road to Kansas” by Victoria Vaughn</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">“Summer
Running” by Walter Moak</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-74225507272358186172023-11-07T15:41:00.003-06:002023-11-07T15:51:12.771-06:00Pushcart Prize Nominations<p> <span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px;">Dear 105 Readers and Writers, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">We are proud to announce the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to the following authors.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Flesh Made Word, </b>by Boyd Bauman </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">(issue #6)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Grave Diggers, </b>by Susan D. Brinkman (issue #5)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Revolution at the End of the World, </b>by Rex Buchanan (issue #6)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>A Pet for the Ages</b>, by Phyllis McKenzie (issue #5)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Kitty's Tale</b>, by Harland J. Schuster (Issue #5)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>The Garden of Eden in Concrete</b>, by Jesse Tyler </span><b style="font-size: 13.2px;">(issue #6)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> More about the Pushcart Prize and Publication can be <a href="http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">found here</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Much love and good reading!</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Tracy & Cheryl</p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-21663361179238177102023-07-16T22:12:00.004-05:002023-07-24T16:44:29.580-05:00Meet the Authors of our Landmark Stories, Issue 6<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ElME1xaEBM7h_hsGIkM8Bo6FukGdRwAVnpNub59P0l-xLKsDhwockO6cKeQ8-D4B9BqNJ_H3mFw8pqaSrgAXTtxsxKukEoDJI4hw31WOciOjWop0cHQ_DfEaUsb5ezlNcX-qkiokCZzshg8XqearWUfyV8CjUkgq3nJYoP34QEea5oTIiLYyD06ln2ym/s3180/author%20pics%20issue%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3180" data-original-width="3180" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ElME1xaEBM7h_hsGIkM8Bo6FukGdRwAVnpNub59P0l-xLKsDhwockO6cKeQ8-D4B9BqNJ_H3mFw8pqaSrgAXTtxsxKukEoDJI4hw31WOciOjWop0cHQ_DfEaUsb5ezlNcX-qkiokCZzshg8XqearWUfyV8CjUkgq3nJYoP34QEea5oTIiLYyD06ln2ym/w640-h640/author%20pics%20issue%206.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our Landmark issue has 33 authors representing 29 counties. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">James Aber - Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">James Aber & Susan Aber - Santa Fe Trail</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lindsey Bartlett - Land of the Post Rock</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Boyd Bauman - Flesh Made Word</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mary Ann Blaufuss - Landmarks of My Youth</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jenna Brack - Dad's Kansas Tours</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lori Brack - Central Kansas Rock Gods</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rex Buchanan - Revolution at the End of the World</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Linda Cook - Anderson Hall</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ann Christine Fell - American's Most Famous Unknown Woman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stan Finger - The Tunnel of Trees</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Monica Graves - Stone Arch Bridge Crossing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Carolyn Hall - Guideposts of the Plains</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cheryl Heide - Flyover Harlan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thomas Holmquist - Soldier's Cap</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Marlysue Holmquist - Lovisa's Landmarks</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nancy Julien Kopp - Johnny Kaw Speaks to a Child</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Marilyn Hope Lake - "Downunder" in Kansas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jesse Tyler - The Garden of Eden in Concrete</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kaye McIntyre - Exploring Kansas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - Castle Rock in the Light of Day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rick Nichols - Hams and Eggs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">John Olson - A Family Landmark</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harland Schuster - That Time Kansas Grew by Over 600 Feet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julie A. Sellers - Harvey Girl</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Melissa Stanton - Aeolian Sands</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Julie Stielstra - Eleanor, Daughter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sandee Lee - Wrong Way Tornado</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Leon Unruh - The Invisible Map</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Victoria Vaughn - Ascending the High Plains</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Barbara Waterman-Peters - At the Capitol</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jon Kelly Yenser - Intemperate Wichita</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Michelle Zumbrum - The Farm That Built Us</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-67195001449603425192023-05-10T15:21:00.001-05:002023-05-10T15:21:51.332-05:00A Note to our Readers and Writers<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="mceBlockContainer" style="padding: 12px 24px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="mceText" data-block-id="78" id="dataBlockId-78" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 612.004px;"><p class="last-child" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><b>Thank you for taking this journey with us!</b> 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! </p></div></td></tr><tr><td class="mceBlockContainer" style="padding: 12px 24px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div class="mceText" data-block-id="81" id="dataBlockId-81" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 612.004px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">As of Issue #5, the animal issue—</p><ul class="last-child" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;">we have published 117 Kansas-connected writers </p></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="direction: ltr; 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text-decoration-line: none; width: 564px;" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-55281343351008372892023-04-30T20:45:00.003-05:002023-05-09T14:25:44.433-05:00Call for Entries: Kansas Landmarks Issue<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkyl0W0Ut1IBXYaVjXqbBDvFzTfCU7XebMqFRpuJM26i4732kGji6uD-f49x1lknh9hBu9tYkKvNY_6y3DdXQsCmRSddwAdkj2gnkjBOhQR1eln7R13caboOt7sSaplGmwbG37Zyan--0PelGic6k2OcDwBc8iDexlSEumo_If8BklX4aJfZivrwvWA/s1500/call%20for%20landmarks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkyl0W0Ut1IBXYaVjXqbBDvFzTfCU7XebMqFRpuJM26i4732kGji6uD-f49x1lknh9hBu9tYkKvNY_6y3DdXQsCmRSddwAdkj2gnkjBOhQR1eln7R13caboOt7sSaplGmwbG37Zyan--0PelGic6k2OcDwBc8iDexlSEumo_If8BklX4aJfZivrwvWA/w400-h400/call%20for%20landmarks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theme for Issue #6 (May 1 - June 30, 2023 Submission Period)</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Landmarks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><ol style="font-size: large; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 36pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember that our themes are simply prompts to spur your essays. There are so many directions you can go. Surprise us. Engage us. Tell us about places that are ultimately Kansas for you. Tell us stories about those iconic places that stand out in your community, perhaps the legends surrounding them, or the school field trips that first introduced you to them.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 36pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal essays are welcome, but we are also looking for interviews, journalistic pieces, and more. Do you know the man who keeps the grass trimmed for tourists? Could you interview the people who restored, refurbished, or protected? There are so many true stories that need to be told. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 36pt; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember, It must be a </span><u style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">true</u><span style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"> story that happened, all or partially, in Kansas. </span><i style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can your story leave the boundaries of Kansas? Sure! But you must </i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">s</span><i style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">how us that Kansas connection!</i></p></li></ol><div style="font-size: large;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Word count:</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Let’s say 100 - 3,000 words, give or take. How many words does it take for you to tell your story?</span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7053f43-7fff-f3a0-84cc-c861ed8da1fc"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our preference is original, never-before-published pieces.</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will consider pieces that have been published electronically or in limited-audience, small publication format (such as newsletters) if the author retains the right to publish. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">No simultaneous submissions, please.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>105 Meadowlark Reader does not accept AI-generated stories.</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have fun:</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When a writer enjoys the process, that positive energy comes through to the reader. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishing rights</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: We are asking for First North American Serial Rights. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Payment: </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Payment is currently </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">$10</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> per story and one contributor copy of the journal. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to submit:</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> File types accepted: </span><span style="color: #737373; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.doc, .docx, .rtf</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please submit entries in 12-point Times New Roman with double-spaced lines.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>IMPORTANT:</b> Include your author bio at the end of your entry. Your name as printed in this bio is how we will refer to you in the rest of the journal. (Exception: Feel free to use titles and degree designations in the bio, but those titles will not be included in the byline, per Meadowlark style.)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Your bio should include:</span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">125 words or less</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">Written in 3rd person</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">A mention of your connection to Kansas (such as where you grew up, your favorite spot in the state, a favorite fact about Kansas).</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">Your current city, state of residence</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">Feel free to mention any publishing credits as space allows</span></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;" type="disc"></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 7.9pt; text-indent: 0in;"><span face=""proxima-nova",serif" style="color: #333333;">Attach a high-resolution author photo in JPG format with your entry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;" type="disc"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span face="proxima-nova, serif" style="color: #333333; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bonus points if your author photo includes a Kansas setting.</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit via Submittable - </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://meadowlarkbooks.submittable.com/submit" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Meadowlark Press Submission Manager</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://meadowlarkbooks.submittable.com/submit/173630/creative-non-fiction-submissions-to-105-meadowlark-reader" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="submit" border="0" src="https://manager.submittable.com/Public/Images/submittable-submit-button.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Limit:</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you may enter up to two (2) stories per submission period. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions? </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact us at </span><a href="mailto:info@meadowlark-books.com" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">info@meadowlark-books.com</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p><br /></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-1219886177968594822023-03-24T06:00:00.005-05:002023-03-24T06:00:00.223-05:00Announcing the Spring 2023 Ad Astra Awards!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUVwWOfA2azCfmIJdXUxYa2BG1OHxm4qeqfz5SmH3etVwPKIQ73i6UKmPwtFfUk-Jpot3Xgvf4qZAiiTJBXk0qAEhWfkwgRBc49y_ug1ppwsk2wnpdqs8atbrLoKy_CwEbK5LM8J5uoMbucgqWmH9lZilJQPQfWlLTfBUdfRzGbXEhS3vURoaGl0XDQ/s500/AA%20promo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUVwWOfA2azCfmIJdXUxYa2BG1OHxm4qeqfz5SmH3etVwPKIQ73i6UKmPwtFfUk-Jpot3Xgvf4qZAiiTJBXk0qAEhWfkwgRBc49y_ug1ppwsk2wnpdqs8atbrLoKy_CwEbK5LM8J5uoMbucgqWmH9lZilJQPQfWlLTfBUdfRzGbXEhS3vURoaGl0XDQ/s320/AA%20promo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So much has happened since we announced our plan for the <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><b>Ad Astra Awards</b></span> in the fall of 2022. Most notably, we received our largest batch of entries yet for an issue of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>. Boy did Kansas writers deliver! We were delighted by the response, all the lovely essays we read, (<i>and immediately sorry that we would not be able to publish them all</i>). <p></p><p>Now we are polishing up this collection of <b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;">animal stories</span> </b>for delivery to POD Print in Wichita. We are proud of this Kansas product, from our writers whose love of this state is as deep as ours to our "first run" which is always locally printed, to the bookstore partners who have supported us in this endeavor and helped make this journal a reality. </p><p><br /></p><p>The spring 2023 issue will be shipping to a mailbox near you sometime in early May. </p><p>Ah, but what you've arrived here for... the announcement of our winners! 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Two $50 prizes! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two $50 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ad Astra Awards for Excellence in Writing </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be given to the two pieces in each issue that stand out for us as editor and publisher. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For these awards, we will be looking for masterful use of language, depth to the story/essay/article, a good story well told, and creative use of theme. We’re looking for overall excellence in writing. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">$50 for the Editor’s Choice Award </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">$50 for the Publisher’s Choice Award</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you submit to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">105</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, send us the best piece of writing you can put together. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consider possible stories for the theme. Write. Revise. Polish it, make it shine. Read it aloud. Proofread. Submit. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every submission will automatically be considered for these awards. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> #</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, specifically, about issue #5. If you’re submitting to our “animal” issue, here are some leads on what we’d like to see land on our desks . . .</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our next theme is “animals.” While we expect to get a few dog and cat stories, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we’d love to get a variety of other animal stories as well. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create your own list of potential animal stories. Some ideas to get that list started . . .</span></p><br /><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reptile encounters</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you met up with bears or bison, owls, deer, perhaps a coyote? </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any critter events while camping? Chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes? </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe you’ve worked in a zoo, or have zoo-related stories</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write a profile about your favorite veterinarian. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you ever had to have rabies shots?</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experiences with farm animals - horses, cattle, chickens, goats. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your story could be a personal story, an essay, an interview, a factual article about peacocks or possums, or people involved with animals. Any true story. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But what if you’re writing a story about a bear? Or a shark? While we would like at least part of your story set in Kansas, you could start the story in Kansas and go from there. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We do value having a theme for each issue, it ties all of the stories together with a soft link, but you can also take some freedom with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">105</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> themes. The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">entire </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">story doesn’t have to be about “an animal.” Take a theme, give it a solid connection to your story, and then run with it. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our reading period for animal stories runs from November 1 - December 31, 2022. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other guidelines apply. Find them here:</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html</span></p><br /></span>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08006281762436150191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-65562932423978783362022-10-25T09:50:00.000-05:002022-10-25T09:50:03.740-05:00Meet the Authors of our Food Stories, Issue #4 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpoMhZ4MVz5pA8cgfrH7qq94S5vtY3IV2j1cs98t0jP-7MFR5TeQVHAOzzSdoR0NUevTun4JIUwRZixl1VQUqxKUa9YzC7E6gwn_DBqCRCjKU5H7bqBp1i2JwWokpmmjXpDR1vXzC94VNR9HzAC5yxBTDg6iAwFIjyEZ55nCqB8zrC2Q-pBZdU5vKDPw/s3180/author%20pics%20issue%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="3180" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpoMhZ4MVz5pA8cgfrH7qq94S5vtY3IV2j1cs98t0jP-7MFR5TeQVHAOzzSdoR0NUevTun4JIUwRZixl1VQUqxKUa9YzC7E6gwn_DBqCRCjKU5H7bqBp1i2JwWokpmmjXpDR1vXzC94VNR9HzAC5yxBTDg6iAwFIjyEZ55nCqB8zrC2Q-pBZdU5vKDPw/w640-h634/author%20pics%20issue%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">With music, painting, writing and performance, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Teresa Bachman</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> has wrapped herself in the arts her entire life. She has been published in periodicals, newspapers, and poetry books; won historical essay contests, and garnered an honorable mention for a Kansas Authors Club Contest entry. Performing her original scripts, Bachman traveled Kansas and other States as several First-Person Historical Characters on the Kansas Touring Arts Roster and as a member of Ride Into History Performers Group. She considers herself a prairie person and has proudly taken the delights of heartland living to audiences throughout the region and as far away as Japan and Ireland via her first-person character and musical performances. Teresa is a sixth-generation Kansan now living in El Dorado.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Lindsey Bartlett</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> teaches composition and literature at Emporia State University. An Emporian by choice, she lives in the Flint Hills region of Kansas where she spends her days writing in various coffee shops, holed up at home with a good book, or driving the countryside for good photo opportunities. You can find her wherever there is a sunset. Bartlett has published one poetry collection, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Vacant Childhood</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. Her writing and photography have appeared in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Write Bridge</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Flint Hills Review</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;"><span dir="ltr"></span>105 Meadowlark Reader</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Wyandotte Window</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Boyd Bauman</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas, with his dad the storyteller and his mom the family scribe. He has published two books of poetry: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Cleave </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Scheherazade Plays the Chestnut Tree Café.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> After stints in New York, Colorado, Alaska, Japan, and Vietnam, Boyd now is a librarian and writer in Kansas City, inspired by his three lovely muses. Visit him at boydbauman.weebly.com. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Jenna Brack</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a writer, teacher, and celebrator of the arts. She grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, and attended Kansas State University, where she earned a B.S. in Education and an M.A. in English. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Every Day Poems</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Fathom</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Sunlight Press</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Mothers Always Write</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Coffee + Crumbs</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and others. She currently lives with her family near downtown Kansas City.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Rex Buchanan</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is the director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey. He grew up in Rice County on the edge of the Smoky Hills. He is the co-author of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Roadside Kansas: A Traveler’s Guide to Its Geology and Landmarks</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kansas Geology</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, all published by the University Press of Kansas, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Canyon Revisited</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, published by the University of Utah Press. He records occasional commentaries for Kansas Public Radio.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Cathy Callen</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Since then, though, she has lived mostly in Kansas. Her father worked for Southwestern Bell, and every time he was promoted, the family got to see more of Kansas. They lived in Sunflower, Manhattan, Hays, Salina, Topeka, and Wichita. Her career as a teacher and special education coordinator with Topeka Public Schools kept her in the state for more than thirty years. After retiring, she moved to Lawrence with her soon-to-be husband, Barry, and it is her current favorite Kansas location. She likes the Lawrence Busker Festival, the Art Tougeau parade, the library, The Raven Bookstore, the political environment, the summer pooch swim, Liberty Hall, Wheatfield’s Bakery, and walking on the KU campus and in her friendly neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Annabelle Corrick</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born and raised in Topeka, lived in five other Kansas towns and three other states, returned to Topeka the last decade, and currently resides in Columbia, Missouri. She earned advanced degrees from Emporia State University and Kansas State University and was the Kansas Authors Club 2015 Prose Writer of the Year. Her writings have appeared in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Poet’s Art</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;"><span dir="ltr"></span>2016 Kansas Voices Writing Contest</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Well Versed</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and other publications. Her most awesome Kansas experience has been standing against the wind and viewing the vast vista of western Kansas where her paternal grandparents pioneered.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Jim Dalzell</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born and raised in Grandview, Missouri. He now lives in Overland Park, Kansas, and he has been there for the past ten years. He has been with his wife, Amber, for eleven years and married for six of those years. They have a child, Alastair, and two dogs: Feig and Pocket. His favorite spot in Kansas is walking around Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence because he is a huge fan of the Jayhawks. One of the most interesting facts he found about Kansas is that it is home to the first Pizza Hut and the first ever White Castle. He also has a publishing credit in a journal called </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Mind’s Eye</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> from Johnson County Community College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Michael Durall</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in the thriving metropolis of Pawnee Rock, Kansas, population 250. He was the champion sentence diagrammer in his sixth grade English class, which eventually led to his writing nine books about his work as a consultant to nonprofit organizations. He lives in Salina and writes a weekly column for the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Salina 311</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> newspaper and has recently published a book of essays from local residents for the Salina Arts and Humanities Commission on the theme of The Day That Changed My Life Forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Angel Edenburn </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">is a lifelong Kansan, freelance screenwriter, author, poet, and semi-professional belly dancer. All of her books are “Kansas-centric” and utilize elements unique to Kansas.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">After growing up in Kanopolis, Kansas, in the shadow of the Fort Harker Museum, she now lives outside Council Grove with her husband and animal “children,” most of them orphans or rescues. She has two blogs—one written in character. Isysthevampire.com is her character blog and Angel’s Musings can be found at angeledenburn.wordpress.com. She has published several novels, a novelette, a poetry book, and two short story books, and published in several niche anthologies. Her newest book, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Jaded Moon</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, is due to be published later this year.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Mark O. J. Esping</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> first lived in a Swede-Town in Pottawatomie County. He graduated from Bethany, a Swedish-Lutheran College. He reprinted </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">NEQUA</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, a feminist sci-fi novel first published in Topeka, Kansas, in 1900. Mark directed www.folklifeinstitute.com, a nonprofit, and two N.E.A. Folk Art grants. His work has appeared in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Clarion Folk Art, Country Living, Scandinavian Review, Victorian Homes,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Hemslöjden.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> He is an Eagle Scout and a veteran. He and his wife share a home in Merriam, Kansas, with three near-feral cats. Twin deer occasionally graze in their backyard. Mark tells stories, true stories, with a humorous nature and a hint of morality. In collection they are packets of maps that are </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Near Invisible, Like Footprints in Ever Shifting Sand.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;">Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, PhD, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">the 2009-13</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of twenty-four books, including </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">; </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">Miriam’s Well</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">, a novel; and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, she is a beloved writing workshop facilitator and writing and Right Livelihood coach. After growing up in Brooklyn and New Jersey, she fell in love with the big skies of Kansas over forty years ago, and lives with her husband, Ken Lassman, on family land they’re saving through a conservation easement. She loves life-giving collaborations: she offers YourRightLivelihood.com with Kathryn Lorenzen, Bravevoice.com with Kelley Hunt, and TheArtofFacilitation.net with Joy Roulier Sawyer. She offers weekly “Care Packages for a Creative Life” through her Patron.com/carynmg. Find more about her, including her blog, “Everyday Magic” at CarynMirriamGoldberg.com.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Beth Gulley</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> first moved to Newton, Kansas, when she was two. Her family moved to Latin America, but Beth returned to the Olathe area for college where she met her husband. They moved to Paola, Kansas, to raise their family. Beth has advanced degrees from UMKC and the University of Kansas. She teaches writing at Johnson County Community College. Her recent writing is included in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kansas City Voices</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Dragonfly Magazine</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kansas Speaks Out</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Write Bridge</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. She has published three full-length poetry collections: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Sticky Note Alphabet</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Dragon Eggs</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Love of Ornamental Fish</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. She currently resides in Spring Hill, Kansas, which gives her easy access to Hillsdale Lake where she enjoys trail running and fishing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 118%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;">Carolyn Hall</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;"> is an award-winning author who grew up on a farm outside Olmitz, Kansas. Her childhood on the farm provided wonderful memories which she shared in her book, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">Prairie Meals and Memories: Living the Golden Rural. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">It was named to the Kansas Sesquicentennial’s Best 150 Books list.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">Her stories and poems have appeared in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">Chicken Soup for the Soul</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">The Christian Science Monitor</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;">The Kansas City Star</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;">and various anthologies. She lives in Lenexa, Kansas.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Roger Heineken</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in rural Atchison County. Emporia has been his home since 1969 when he transferred to Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University). Heineken retired from an ESU career working in the first student union building west of the Mississippi River. Writing is a relatively new endeavor for Heineken who values non-fiction and storytelling. One of his pieces was included in the inaugural issue of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;"><span dir="ltr"></span>105 Meadowlark Reader</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. Heineken loves sharing local history as a step-on guide for day trippers and reunion groups for the Visit Emporia Bureau through his Magical History Tours. Should you meet Roger, ask him about “Bonton,” the 3,500-lb circus hippopotamus, that died in 1930 Emporia. He wasn’t there then but knows the story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Jerilynn Jones Henrikson</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">a retired English teacher, has always loved teaching, telling, reading, watching, and writing stories. To date, Jerilynn has published nine children’s picture books, an adult memoir, and a young adult historical fiction novel. Her work reflects her sense of humor, love of words, and talent for detail. Jerilynn finds her inspiration in the rolling hills of east central Kansas. No matter the subject of a current work, she is motivated by the people, history, and changing seasons of this place. As a student of history and language, she enjoys traveling to beautiful places. But ultimately, she finds the greatest joy in travel is coming home. www.prairiepatchwork.com</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Jennifer Broadstreet Hess</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> has been working as a freelance writer and photographer for the past nine years. She has had a passion for writing since she was young. Jennifer was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Elk County. She then married and raised her children in Marion. She was hired as a Field Editor for </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Country</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Birds and Blooms Magazine</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> four years ago. She felt compelled to write about her travel adventures with her family, sharing the beauty of the Flint Hills Region, and other Kansas landscapes, her favorite spot being the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve region for hiking and the native wildflowers that grow there, primarily the Kansas sunflower. It reminds her of childhood backroad trips with her parents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">A lifelong Kansan, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Connie Hocking</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in Cawker City. Yes, home of the World’s Largest Ball of Twine! After marrying a Saline County farmer, she and her husband Jim raised three children on the family farm west of Salina. In 2020 she retired after twenty-three years at the Salina Public Library, fifteen of those years as the Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, where she connected with people all across Kansas. Now she enjoys having no alarm clock, cooking and canning, and keeping up with her four grandchildren, a granddaughter in Texas, and three little seventh-generation farm boys just a quarter mile down the road.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Thomas N. Holmquist</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a fifth-generation farmer and rancher near Smolan, Kansas. He also is a retired teacher in the Smoky Valley School District having taught music, American History, and agriculture for forty-four years. He has also published three books, including </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Pioneer Cross</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Bluestem, a novel</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Salemsborg, A History of the Salemsborg Church and Community</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, Volume 1, 1869-1939, for which he won the Award of Commendation for Lutheran Church History from the Augustana Historical Association. Tom has several writing projects in the works in between feeding cows, putting up hay, and planting and harvesting crops. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Delphine Holston</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born in Abilene, Kansas, and has lived in the area all her life. After graduating from Abilene High and Marymount College, she began her teaching career in Abilene. She married a farmer and lived south of Abilene until he retired and they moved to town. She taught in elementary schools in Abilene and Chapman districts for thirty-one years. She enjoyed doing creative writing and poetry with her students, and she writes in her journal every day. Before she was widowed in 2004, she and Gene enjoyed traveling and volunteering. She loves seeing their three children and five grandchildren who live in Topeka, Denver, and Helena, Montana. She has been volunteering at Memorial Hospital and Great Plains Theater for twenty-five years.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Beth Inwood</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in Hamilton, Kansas. Living there all her life, except while she attended college to receive her teaching degree, Beth started out on a farm and the family moved to town when she was in high school. She attended the Methodist Church. Beth was a 4-H Club member for ten years. After graduating from college, she had a variety of occupations ranging from teacher to bank employee to vice president of an oilfield corporation. After retiring from teaching, Beth took a job at the local post office and city library. Currently she substitutes at the school and the library, loves to garden, feed the birds, and quilt, as well as other arts and crafts. Her favorite thing about Kansas is the sunflowers. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 113%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;">Deb Irsik</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond;"> was the owner of Makin’ Waves Salon in Emporia, Kansas, and retired from the beauty industry after twenty-five years. She is a Kansas girl and shares her life with her husband Mike, and children John and Emily. Deb is a member of the Kansas Authors Club and Emporia Writers Group. Deb’s favorite thing about Kansas is the people. “Most people in Kansas have a strong work ethic and family values. The beautiful Flint Hills and Kansas sunsets are second to none. What’s not to like?” Poetry and lyrics have always been part of her life, but she felt a call to write middle-grade Christian fiction after her daughter found it difficult to be “that God girl” in eighth grade. “It is my hope that my books will encourage young people to hold onto values and faith as they navigate their teen years.” Deb’s “Heroes by Design” series was completed in 2020, and she hopes to dedicate her time to creating a book of poetry and continuing to write essays, prose, and fiction. Deb can be found online: facebook.com/D.A.Irsikauthor, Twitter:@Writerwannabe1, www.dairsik.com, amazon.com/author/dairsik, https://instagram.com/debirsik/<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Miriam Iwashige </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">lives on a three-acre property outside of Partridge, Kansas, near where her preacher-farmer dad and mom raised twelve children. She aims to live large from this small place, just as the land and sky around the property suggest. Reading, earning a bachelor’s degree, teaching, conversing, and traveling have often fostered large living, as did homeschooling her children and investing deeply in many aspects of homemaking, gardening, animal husbandry, nature study, and church and community life. She and her Japanese-immigrant husband parented three sons who all live nearby right now. Those who have joined their sons’ families through marriage or birth (nine grandchildren!) spent childhood years in such diverse places as Bangladesh, Kenya, El Salvador, and Washington state. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Sally Jadlow</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in Ft. Scott, Kansas. After marriage, she and her husband moved to Overland Park. Teaching creative writing for the Kansas City Writers Group is one of her joys. She writes historical fiction, inspirational stories, devotionals, and poetry. Sally has published thirteen books. Her work has appeared in many compilations including </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Chicken Soup for the Soul </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">and many other publications. Her books are available on Amazon.com. Sally also loves to bake, cinnamon rolls, her specialty. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Family Favorites from the Heartland</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> contain her favorite recipes. The eastern Kansas countryside with its gently rolling hills claims Sally’s most favorite area of the state. She believes what Dorothy says, “There’s no place like home,” is true—if you live in Kansas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">As assistant director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Julie Johnson</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> honed her writing skills developing “Plains Talk,” a series of public service announcements for radio. Focusing on interesting facts about the Great Plains, the series found an audience throughout the region. Julie also developed a sharp eye for editing and proofreading with her work on the journal </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Heritage of the Great Plains</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. Now retired, she continues to chronicle her travels with her blog that has evolved to include her musings and observations about gardening, aging, and life in the middle of the country. Her blog “Julie’s Garden of Life” is available at johnsonjulie45.wordpress.com.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Mary-Lane Kamberg</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a professional writer, editor, and speaker from Olathe, Kansas. She is co-leader of the Kansas City Writers Group and founder and director of the I Love to Write Camp for kids. She coached competitive swimming for forty years for the Homestead Country Club, Olathe Cyclones, and Kansas City Blazers. She is the author of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The “I Don’t Know How to Cook” Book </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">and books for young writers:</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;"> The I Love to Write Book, The I Love to Write Stories Book,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The I Love to Write Poetry Book. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">She has published more than thirty nonfiction books for middle school and high school libraries from Rosen Publishing and Britannica. She has swum with dolphins, ridden an elephant, and been kissed by a camel.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Doug Kjellin</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born and raised on a Marion County farm in Kansas. Growing up, he had the idyllic childhood of farm life. From the drudgery of chores in the winter cold to the hot summer Sunday fishing at the creek, Doug grew up in a loving and hard-working farm family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Doug resides in the same house, on the same farm, where he grew up. He shares the home with his wife of thirty-six years and their two German Shepherd dogs. If he is not working on the homeplace, Doug likes to tend to a special area near the creek called “Doug’s Park.” Doug also enjoys making wooden items and playing the bass guitar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Amy Deckert Kliewer</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> has lived her entire life in Kansas. She grew up in Pawnee Rock, Kansas, and went to high school in Larned. After attending Bethel College and graduating from the University of Kansas, Amy lived and worked in the Kansas City metro area as a civil engineer. Recently retired, Amy and her husband moved to North Newton to enjoy the smalltown feeling and be close to family. She is enjoying exploring her Next Chapter.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Nancy Julien Kopp </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">grew up in the Chicago area and moved to Kansas, her adopted state and home, in 1975. She started writing in her mid-fifties, realizing a long-held dream. She has been published in many anthologies, including twenty-three times in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Chicken Soup for the Soul</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> books, in addition to publication on websites, in magazines, and in newspapers. She writes creative nonfiction, including personal essays and short memoir pieces, and also poetry, short fiction for children, and articles on the craft of writing. Nancy and her retired husband live in Manhattan, Kansas, and are strong supporters of all things K-State. She is mother to two and grandmother to four. She is a voracious reader and enjoys playing bridge. www.writergrannysworld.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Marilyn Hope Lake, PhD</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, writes short fiction, poetry, plays and children’s picture books. She has many awards for writing, including through the Kansas Authors Club contests. Dr. Lake’s first-place story, “Harry’s Stone,” was published in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Words Out of the Flatlands</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">; Kansas Writers Association. Lake has been published in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Rock Springs Review, STIR, Well-Versed: Literary Works, the Gasconade Review, and the Mizzou Alumni Magazine. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">Marilyn lived in Hutchinson, Kansas, from 2002-2017, is a Kansas Authors Club ten-year member, and was a facilitator of the 2014 Annual Conference. Her Kansas favorites are the Wichita Art Museum, State Fair, Underground Salt Mine, Delos V. Smith Senior Center, Hutchinson, and others. Although she misses her Kansas friends, she is happy to live with her dog, Hugo, and near family in Columbia, Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">A Kansan through and through, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Sandee Lee</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> celebrates being published in every edition of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;"><span dir="ltr"></span>105 Meadowlark Reader</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. Her favorite writing topic for nonfiction and fiction is Kansas. The turmoil of the mid-1800s in the Lawrence area is the topic of her current fiction project. Relaxing on her porch with her two border collies lying by her feet and watching cattle graze on the hillside is where you’ll find Sandee most evenings except in the winter months. From that porch she can observe the homestead where her family has lived since 1925.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Errin D. Moore</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, an emigrant from Montana, has called Kansas home for eight years. She lives in the Flint Hills near Leon with her husband, infant son, and eighteen-year-old stepson—along with their menagerie of chickens, turkeys, geese, pigs, and an overabundance of cats. She fell in love with the unique beauty Kansas offers, most especially the magnificent sunsets. Errin and her husband own Able and Ready Appliance Repair. She runs the office from home while raising Oliver. She was a teacher and administrator for nineteen years, and she owned and operated a bookstore in El Dorado. Her humorous, touching, and unique sense of voice is especially effective when she writes about the joys and challenges of being a first-time mother at the age of forty-four.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Julie Nischan </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">is a country girl who was taught on the family farm that no matter your job, put your best effort into it. She loves writing, cooking and baking, her pets, and her husband. (Not necessarily in that order!) She also enjoys spending time with her friends and making people laugh. She is a native Kansan who currently resides in Topeka.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">She is an active member of Kansas Writers Inc since 2019. Julie has self-published three books, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Misspent: My Life in Retail</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and a cookbook, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Substitute Cook</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. Her third book, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">I Belong to the Country</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a collection of short stories from her childhood on the family farm in northeast Kansas. Her books are available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Audrey Phillips</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a Kansan through and through. She grew up in Overland Park, attended the University of Kansas, and is now living in Kansas City, Missouri. Audrey loves to represent her favorite parts of being a Kansan by cheering on her Jayhawks or Chiefs or Sporting Kansas City. Audrey loves Kansas because of the way everyone feels like family here. She is a proud midwesterner and strives to promote the kindness that midwesterners possess. She has always loved to write, even from a young age. She was and continues to be inspired by her famous Aunt Mary-Lane Kamberg who has published many books in her time as an author. Even though now she lives right across the state line, Kansas will always be her home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Katie Pownell</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in Newton, Kansas, and is a graduate of Emporia State University, with a BA in English. She also attended the ESU Creative Writing graduate program for a year before pursuing a life of world-travel and many address changes. She currently divides her time between Newton and San Francisco, where she works on various projects in the start-up industry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Cynthia Schaker</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> (Cindy), a retired Kansas educator of thirty-seven years, grew up on a farm outside of Hamilton, Kansas, in Greenwood County. Cindy taught grades six through eight at Towanda Grade School and served as school counselor at Circle Middle School in Butler County. One of her favorite places in Kansas is the Flint Hills because they remind her of going home. She currently resides in El Dorado, Kansas, with her rescue dog Moxie. Cindy does volunteer work in the Gift Shop at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado. She serves as President of the SBAMH Auxiliary. She loves humorous writing and penning stories from her childhood. She recently had her humorous murder mystery play performed at Cardinal Creek Farm in Butler County. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">TinaRae Scott</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> currently resides in Morris County with her favorite cowboy, their three children, three dogs, a herd of cattle, and a charm of hummingbirds. TinaRae has worked for nonprofits for the past two decades, currently serving as the resource librarian for the Council Grove Public Library. She also volunteers in her community, the region, and across the state speaking for public education. She is enamored each spring with the beauty of the Flint Hills and feels very fortunate to be able to reside within the tallgrass prairie. While Council Grove has been her home for the last twenty years, she has also resided across the state in Wichita, Goddard, Olathe, Emporia, Ellis, Sycamore, and Olpe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Julie A. Sellers</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was raised in the Flint Hills near the small town of Florence, Kansas. She currently resides in Atchison, Kansas, where she is an Associate Professor (Spanish) and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Benedictine College. Julie’s creative work has appeared in publications such as </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Cagibi, Wanderlust, Unlost</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Write Launch, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kansas Time + Place. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">Julie was the 2020 Kansas Authors Club Prose Writer of the Year, and the Overall Poetry Winner (2022) and Overall Prose Winner (2017, 2019) of the Kansas Voices Contest. She is the author of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">Anne of Green Gables (Blue Cedar Press, 2021) and the novel, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Ann of Sunflower Lane</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> (Meadowlark, 2022).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Perry Shepard</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a Vietnam veteran who has written two novels: </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Hero versus Me and Monkey Jo</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Hard Love</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. He co-wrote two plays in the anthology titled </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Annabelle</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">. He won a second-place award in Eber and Wein’s </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Best American Poetry</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> of 2013, and an honorable mention in Writer’s Digest 84th annual Poetry Competition. Perry is a member and former District 2 president of Kansas Authors Club. He makes his home in Eudora, Kansas. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">A month after the sudden death of her second husband, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Anne L. Spry</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> had a mystical dream that detailed a new business based on capturing personal history for writing memoir. She had already begun publishing books through Createspace for herself and others following a twenty-seven-year career as a newspaper publisher and editor. Since the fortuitous dream, Spry and partner Cheri Battrick have developed a DIY Memoir Kit and Spry has expanded her book publishing to some two dozen titles under the Personal Chapters LLC banner. They include children’s books, memoir and fiction, and a few titles authored by Spry. Anne serves as President of District 1 of Kansas Authors Club and produces a newsletter for that group and another for a local Sweet Adelines group. She is married to a retired military pilot, and they live on a family acreage south of Topeka where Anne spent her first five years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Carolyn Tillotson</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. After graduating from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville she moved to southern California where she worked for a group of weekly newspapers. Later, after a year at the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Joplin News Herald</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> in Joplin, Missouri, on the city hall and police beat, she worked for Associated Press, covering the Kansas legislature. In Topeka, Kansas, she met her future husband, a law student. Years later she had the opportunity to serve as a Kansas state senator from Leavenworth. It was harder than it had looked as a reporter. She is now retired, living in Leavenworth.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Chuck Warner</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is a lifelong Kansan. After growing up in Wichita, he has lived in Lawrence since first attending the University of Kansas in the 1960s. With business and law degrees, he embarked on a nearly forty-year career in business and banking. After he retired in 2008, he began writing about his maternal grandfather and in 2019 </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">was published by the University Press of Kansas. In 2020 his book was recognized as a Kansas Notable book, and also won awards for the best Kansas history and best book layout from the Kansas Authors Club, and was a finalist in the High Plains Book Awards. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Barbara Waterman-Peters</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is an artist by training and a writer by chance. Both pursuits have come together over the years in her articles about art and artists for such publications as </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Topeka</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Kansas</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">New Art Examiner</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> magazines, in her book cover paintings for authors such as Marcia Cebulska’s </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Watching Men Dance</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and in her collaborations with poets, most recently, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Two Ponders: A Collaboration</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> with Dennis Etzel, Jr. Co-owner of Pen & Brush Press with author Glendyn Buckley, Waterman-Peters illustrated their first two children’s books, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Fish’s Wishes</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Bird </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">which won awards from Kansas Authors Club. She co-wrote and illustrated their third book, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">TING & the Caterbury Tales,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> which came out this spring. Recently her fiction piece, “The Critique,” appeared in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Pen Woman </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">and her creative non-fiction and poetry have been included in several anthologies. She lives in Topeka and her studio is in the NOTO Arts & Entertainment District. She spent five years living in rural Jackson County and Holton.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Cat Webling</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> is an actress and author based in Kansas. She loves everything mad and macabre, philosophical and silly, so that’s exactly what she writes! Scifi, fantasy, and poetry are her mainstays when she’s not writing about literature, theater, gaming, or fan culture. She currently has a novel, a couple of short story collections, and several poetry collections under her belt. She works as an editor for </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">SUPERJUMP Magazine</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, is an active member of the Kansas Authors Club, and daylights as a copywriter for hire. Cat writes from her home in Russell, which she shares with her loving partner, adorable son, and several very cute cats. You can find her work at www.catwebling.com.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 118%; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;">Anne Welsbacher</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> grew up in Wichita and returned in 2006. Despite allergies to her beloved prairie grasses, she has kept them close throughout her life. Her plays are </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Last Chance Liquor, Radiating Like a Stone</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> (Best Citywide Ensemble), </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Pardon My Dust</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> (Best Citywide Comedy nomination), </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Road to Rouen</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, and </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Miracle of Father Kapaun,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> among others. Her plays have been commissioned, produced, and stage read in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, and Wichita. Anne has published fiction, poetry, and critical essays in </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">Pendulum, Mikrokosmos</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Wichita Eagle</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;">, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; line-height: 118%;">The Minnesota Daily,</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; line-height: 118%;"> and other publications. She writes creative nonfiction and has published nonfiction articles and books on the arts, science, biography, and the environment. Welsbacher.com.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold; line-height: 118%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-58967978135048108562022-09-14T10:51:00.002-05:002022-09-14T11:07:10.922-05:00Issue #4 Update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFEViVGQ6X2TWPDswnLHS9jeGWWQ6anPJ5J8FRC2eIwLhxFyWjsnOwP0AsO9hZNx-PDKFaI418XezWp8wO4hKikNdsucjvIUYE5IUMvP52-zBac-jEPA1jJYPH_Spha0G8DmqsquDYFmlb7QArb_Ynbxw3_ugfBCqmsOEg55xVo2V2yDrSzRb2NAbCQ/s1640/291162661_576602090854668_6229926024245672866_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1640" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFEViVGQ6X2TWPDswnLHS9jeGWWQ6anPJ5J8FRC2eIwLhxFyWjsnOwP0AsO9hZNx-PDKFaI418XezWp8wO4hKikNdsucjvIUYE5IUMvP52-zBac-jEPA1jJYPH_Spha0G8DmqsquDYFmlb7QArb_Ynbxw3_ugfBCqmsOEg55xVo2V2yDrSzRb2NAbCQ/w640-h245/291162661_576602090854668_6229926024245672866_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Dear Readers,</p><p><br /></p><p>We can't WAIT to share the next issue of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i> with you. Our "Food Stories" issue is on schedule to ship in early November 2022. </p><p>Meanwhile, if you know of anyone who should be listed in our <b>Directory of Resources for Writers</b>, there is still time for inclusion. We are looking to build a comprehensive list of Kansas editors & proofreaders, writing coaches, design services (including photographers and illustrators who would like to work with authors), printers, journals and magazines and website publications looking for writers, writing clubs, contests... and what have we missed? The directory is free to all qualifying entries. <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html">Fill out the online form by September 25</a>. </p><p>We have a few spaces for <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/advertise-in-105.html">paid advertising</a> remaining. Deadline: September 25. Contact us if you have any questions. </p><p><a href="mailto:info@meadowlark-books.com" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">info@meadowlark-books.com</a></p><p>Writers, keep an eye on our <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-calendar.html">calendar</a> of themes for future issues. Don't forget to <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html">read our guidelines</a>! Always review the guidelines for submission before submitting!</p><p>If you <a href="https://www.facebook.com/105MeadowlarkReader" target="_blank">follow us on Facebook</a>, you've already seen our Issue 4 author announcements. The complete list of writers and counties will be shared here soon.</p><p>Thank you for being a part of this journal! This Kansas Journal of Creative Nonfiction would not be possible without you!</p><p><br /></p><p>Tracy Million Simmons</p><p>105 Meadowlark Reader</p><p><br /></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-58148088288852039822022-04-25T11:31:00.004-05:002022-04-25T11:34:08.073-05:00Welcome to Books and Burrow, our Newest Bookstore Partner<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.booksandburrow.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1425" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5a48aCyNSHOWFmdam2HOX7heB-EcQESLv9sCxfBNWu5QyNnB6RSLYfMTsS8GqVEq3ApF9jX4S5WNx-5X9DEZdm_azNri1efAwttb1WZYO2XdCP1c_rEaeAfpKk7mmH3phoCBiws5f9Z2Lz6b3Zq_Lx4NSx_dshGe7fkvOzmtPO6b8l5PXrkqjUHspaA/w400-h329/Meadowlark%20105%20Ad%204.75x3.9%20Color.png" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Books & Burrow in Pittsburg, Kansas<br />carries copies of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>We are excited to add Books & Burrow to the list of awesome independent bookstores in Kansas that partner with <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>. We encourage you to shop local and support our indies! Buy your next book, including copies of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader,</i> from a local bookstore.</p><p><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/105-kansas-bookstore-partner.html">Bookstores, learn more about becoming a Bookstore Partner here.</a> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UVMG5Jyp_wBHb-CgJftf-SD249f8RHXucDUlGz0G2PIpACnmR8NtVtiVZCIREtmgz4jwvrwahSoCPxxznao58YKFmG9MbCJuKmNLZRSG03WjOcLGV2YY0pg5iWp66eLzskAq0m99L6EC0pXvi9vd8xSH0Kl1UAE6NzplE3ehEVT4bvMM0uCCkYVIlA/s800/Untitled%20design.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UVMG5Jyp_wBHb-CgJftf-SD249f8RHXucDUlGz0G2PIpACnmR8NtVtiVZCIREtmgz4jwvrwahSoCPxxznao58YKFmG9MbCJuKmNLZRSG03WjOcLGV2YY0pg5iWp66eLzskAq0m99L6EC0pXvi9vd8xSH0Kl1UAE6NzplE3ehEVT4bvMM0uCCkYVIlA/w400-h400/Untitled%20design.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08006281762436150191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-69128293416453507712022-03-02T17:13:00.005-06:002022-03-02T19:34:19.809-06:00Meet the Authors of our Bicycle Stories, Issue #3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFfUvR5NuYH_VBWhzWeHOzEcbQEaXbX85kL4RW4MckALUy8ykYOmmv7ejo9gmimZOHGYa4qVAVTecn3TTficpNAzbZHmn5BA0sAQv53FlH1NxHFLEeLJSH-nVTOZtiFoA_eiI6l1lN75Re0n9iM9EBaCqg_VxZQsabJG9tA8v1hix1J6nWcXWGpP2qjA=s3180" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2931" data-original-width="3180" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFfUvR5NuYH_VBWhzWeHOzEcbQEaXbX85kL4RW4MckALUy8ykYOmmv7ejo9gmimZOHGYa4qVAVTecn3TTficpNAzbZHmn5BA0sAQv53FlH1NxHFLEeLJSH-nVTOZtiFoA_eiI6l1lN75Re0n9iM9EBaCqg_VxZQsabJG9tA8v1hix1J6nWcXWGpP2qjA=w640-h590" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear Reader,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Issue #3 of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>, we are sharing true, bicycle-themed stories. We have 31 of them, in fact, representing 37 Kansas counties by story setting and/or author location. As well, this issue features a <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i> interview with Kristi Mohn, Lifetime Marketing Director, Unbound Gravel Instigator and Organizer, and Woman on a Bike! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you to the following individuals for sharing true bicycle stories with us for this issue. We look forward to sharing these stories with YOU!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;">Lisa Alle</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">n<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jim Andera<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boyd Bauman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Julie Ann Baker Brin</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Annabelle Corrick</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Phyllis A. Ericson</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angel
Edenburn</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 200%;">Monica (Osgood) Graves</span></b><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none;">Beth Gulley</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carolyn Hall</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: white;">Alexander
Hurla</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Jerilynn Jones Henrikson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b>Debra Irsik</b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sally
Jadlow</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>Julie Johnson</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Amy Deckert Kliewer</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b>Sandee Lee</b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mike Marks</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kerry
Moyer</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brandy
Nance</span></b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peg
Nichols<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">J</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">im
Potter</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Edgy Sack</span></b><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cynthia C. Schaker</span></b><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harland Schuster</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anne Spry</span></b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leon
Unruh</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barbara
Waterman-Peters</span></b><b><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-contextual-alternates: no; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brenda White</span></b><b><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-contextual-alternates: no; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-contextual-alternates: no; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mary Kate
Wilcox</span></b><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-contextual-alternates: no; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sheree Wingo</span></b><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"> </span><p></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-48251194785333841422022-01-27T12:24:00.003-06:002024-03-10T15:17:04.181-05:00Celebrate Kansas Day with a Subscription to 105 Meadowlark Reader<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>$5 off a subscription </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>(offer ends Monday, January 31, 2022)</b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc1AN7WQKVOMABydeVtM-A1jvNCpsJEF4BSQdrnTFm1hhNrUOD9P-KNkLAkAFO2GB8w9zufDRAfEvXVmv0IerKSYGDmjn4HfXjXacW_hpe2sNKghVWtqMKklFIw5HlQA7vmel2Ek2FBjVodOCeT0-09E4SeW7XDty7WFvEyY0_xr8d2utrRyz2ApMC5g=s1501" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1501" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc1AN7WQKVOMABydeVtM-A1jvNCpsJEF4BSQdrnTFm1hhNrUOD9P-KNkLAkAFO2GB8w9zufDRAfEvXVmv0IerKSYGDmjn4HfXjXacW_hpe2sNKghVWtqMKklFIw5HlQA7vmel2Ek2FBjVodOCeT0-09E4SeW7XDty7WFvEyY0_xr8d2utrRyz2ApMC5g=w400-h309" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>
Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-22202449479188812812021-11-15T15:46:00.003-06:002021-11-15T15:46:34.830-06:00Pushcart Prize Nominations<p>Dear 105 Readers and Writers, </p><p><br /></p><p>We are proud to announce the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize. We have had so many excellent submissions to the first two issues of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>, and we are so proud of each and every one of you. Congratulations to the following authors.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Off to See Horses or Disasters at the Rodeo, by Roger Heineken </b>(Issue 2)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Current, by Jeanette Powers </b>(Issue 1)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Dr. Pumpkin Cutter, by Harland Schuster </b>(Issue 1)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Eastbound, by Karen Stoff </b>(Issue 2)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Balanced in Waiting, by Janet Sunderland </b>(Issue 1)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Winter Guests, by Barbara Waterman-Peters </b>(Issue 1)</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p> More about the Pushcart Prize and Publication can be <a href="http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.html" target="_blank">found here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much love and good reading!</p><p>Tracy & Cheryl</p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-39570481408471767202021-10-21T09:22:00.001-05:002021-10-21T09:22:17.146-05:00Next Submission Period Opens November 1, 2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyoTZaoKxaK-7a0-tqeMKliBqAvxAaR_IClKO0-Kh6mTIKkzZBYgHh1bmlgGDn9cBmC55OVBveEIgd1gSKP4lYAU8ORbJmbDALFo6sPstgaTvZGA60yO8nKs0QIjeQAUiyhIjU9ONQoxBjKRsJUtjprgWA-OfTS0CFLWQb75NX4TJut26wvAGzXZj20Q=s1200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyoTZaoKxaK-7a0-tqeMKliBqAvxAaR_IClKO0-Kh6mTIKkzZBYgHh1bmlgGDn9cBmC55OVBveEIgd1gSKP4lYAU8ORbJmbDALFo6sPstgaTvZGA60yO8nKs0QIjeQAUiyhIjU9ONQoxBjKRsJUtjprgWA-OfTS0CFLWQb75NX4TJut26wvAGzXZj20Q=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are looking forward to reading those bicycle stories! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html">Review our guidelines</a>. We start taking entries for Issue #3 on November 1.</div><br /> <p></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-65413314110561794522021-09-15T21:46:00.002-05:002021-09-15T21:53:02.788-05:00Where is Issue #2 of 105 Meadowlark Reader going to take you?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jV_0001STu-fGu7Og6rbPGkhSfSa1t6QjfCs6Ihk81gNz9vuUnY5bJs-2Nz7xFQi6ndgPMIvHS503m_TiEqYvYcyfcQHjVdmkoPhW4Pyp9gLWKUAtYCLyXGWSsm5CxRF_BYKeQjpHucc/s858/issue02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="858" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jV_0001STu-fGu7Og6rbPGkhSfSa1t6QjfCs6Ihk81gNz9vuUnY5bJs-2Nz7xFQi6ndgPMIvHS503m_TiEqYvYcyfcQHjVdmkoPhW4Pyp9gLWKUAtYCLyXGWSsm5CxRF_BYKeQjpHucc/w640-h338/issue02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Reader,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Issue #2 of 105 Meadowlark Reader is centered around Kansas travel stories that cover 45 counties. Whew! That's an awful lot of time on the road. But we love road trips, and we think you are going to love these stories as much as we do. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Without further ado, let me introduce you to our authors. This issue features 38! How many faces do you recognize here?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpCwp6-wHgbdvnfao6eqdbHDOo-3RMEL2e7Jm-oJXw2aqGiqtQPNVwqX_533LWruFRJcmo-0oPBs9z6cs3LIiMNCRw9IvNjgzKKa9k__Vot_U0MKPuNQgKSpc8TMmGtsR-1OQgQZd52ag/s2048/author+pics+issue+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2048" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpCwp6-wHgbdvnfao6eqdbHDOo-3RMEL2e7Jm-oJXw2aqGiqtQPNVwqX_533LWruFRJcmo-0oPBs9z6cs3LIiMNCRw9IvNjgzKKa9k__Vot_U0MKPuNQgKSpc8TMmGtsR-1OQgQZd52ag/w640-h590/author+pics+issue+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Because they are writers, you may recognize their words before you know their faces. We'll help you out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you to the following individuals for sharing their true Kansas travel stories with us. We look forward to sharing their stories with YOU!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ann Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lindsey
Bartlett<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Curtis Becker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sheryl Brenn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rex Buchanan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Annabelle
Corrick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AJ Dome<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gretchen Cassel
Eick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mark Esping<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marie Baum
Fletcher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tammy Gilley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anne Graue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Michael D.
Graves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Monica (Osgood)
Graves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carolyn Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Roger Heineken<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jerilynn Jones
Henrikson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Delphine
Holston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sally Jadlow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nancy Julien
Kopp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sandee Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> LaVern Spencer McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Angela Muller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">James Odrowski<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jim Potter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Robert Rebein<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Donald
Reichardt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Julie A.
Sellers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mark Scheel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Harland
Schuster<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tracy Million
Simmons <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Betty Stevens<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Karen Stoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Olive L.
Sullivan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Victoria Vaughn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barbara
Waterman-Peters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brenda White<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anne Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html">SUBSCRIBE</a> <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html">SUBMIT</a> </p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-39801536612300075022021-08-10T10:57:00.000-05:002021-08-10T10:57:12.183-05:00Everybody has a bicycle story, right? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIypC36ftoncjM-7bhfwElgfuvZPZtD8Cqv5S462zMoq-GsxwfP-fVdlBtIxAjSByOEqUZYM4o_zvhAEw8i7K0Qx_G_tiB7-In0YnZXU2V_7m3enIEYqS-tc_ujFwTGsnpeSCdZFKaBIh6/s640/image0+%25285%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="640" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIypC36ftoncjM-7bhfwElgfuvZPZtD8Cqv5S462zMoq-GsxwfP-fVdlBtIxAjSByOEqUZYM4o_zvhAEw8i7K0Qx_G_tiB7-In0YnZXU2V_7m3enIEYqS-tc_ujFwTGsnpeSCdZFKaBIh6/s320/image0+%25285%2529.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">August is blasting Kansas with everything it's got. 100-degree days and all the humidity you've come to associate with back-to-school month. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">While Tracy Million Simmons and I are putting together issue two (!) of 105 Meadowlark Reader, the road trip issue, we encourage you to be thinking about writing your true Kansas stories for our third issue: bicycle stories. <br /><br />Hey, even if you've never owned a bike, surely you have a bike story in your past somewhere. Maybe you wanted a bike but never got one. Maybe a cousin had a hot stingray and crashed it, breaking a leg, and you spent the summer keeping her entertained. <br /><br />And if you have owned a bike, ridden a bike, you certainly have bike stories to tell. <br /><br />The thing is, you don't have to have had some huge, dramatic event surrounding a bike. Memoir and personal essays can capture one tiny moment and what that moment meant to you, how it affected you, offered insights into life. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps you were 8 years-old and you'd just saved up enough money to buy a speedometer for your bike, and with that speedometer you began to grasp the concept of distance and miles and you watched your odometer sync with the mile roads you passed. <br /><br />Maybe you clothes-pinned playing cards to your bicycle frame so the cards slapped your spokes as you rode down the sidewalk in your neighborhood. That was cool. Until your dad yelled at you about using his favorite deck of cards. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you've recently purchased a mountain bike and you've just taken it on an adventure vacation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you had a lemonade stand as a kid and the main reason you set up that lemonade stand was to draw in the cute redheaded girl on her bright orange bike. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you've done the BAK - Biking Across Kansas. What were the good, the bad and the ugly things about the trek? What did you learn about Kansas? What did you learn about yourself? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Maybe you've participated in a Kansas gravel race. How did that go? Who did you meet? What did you see and experience along the way?<br /><br />Maybe when you were 7, you had a banana seat (silver and sparkly) and your best friend, who didn't have a bike, rode on the back of the seat when you went to the park to play. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe that scar on your knee is a bicycle-wreck scar. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you see, for the first time in 20 years, the exact same shade of teal that was the color of your favorite bike, and seeing that color again brings back a rush of memories. <br /><br />True stories are not just about things or events or people - they can also be about how those things, events and people have changed us, how we've grown in our lives because of our experiences. <br /><br />Our reading period for true Kansas bike stories is coming up. November 1 - December 31, 2021. Write your stories now and submit them during that time-frame. <br /><br />Take a chance! Write a story that means something to you, that will mean something to a reader. Put your heart into your story. When it comes down to choosing stories for the issues, Tracy and I love the ones with heart. <br /><br />We look forward to reading your stories! Go. Write. <br /><br />Cheryl Unruh</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Editor, 105 Meadowlark Reader</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08006281762436150191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-148420110763593172021-05-13T10:33:00.007-05:002024-03-10T15:17:46.126-05:00Issue #1 of 105 Meadowlark Reader -- Beginnings!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">It's here! It's here! Beautifully printed by </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meadowlark-books.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D44a279220531fbc5e16eefc0b%26id%3D3292461ed9%26e%3Dc62fc991af&source=gmail&ust=1621004295973000&usg=AFQjCNF2bcnncnVOXUTpj64gSz0Ns9JIEQ" href="https://podprint.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #007c89; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">POD Print</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> in Wichita, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Kansas, the first copies of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i> have been delivered to subscribers and/or are on the way to mailboxes across Kansas and beyond. You can pick up your copy from the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://meadowlark-books.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D44a279220531fbc5e16eefc0b%26id%3Dd5056813cf%26e%3Dc62fc991af&source=gmail&ust=1621004295973000&usg=AFQjCNEQERsyoQm8-d2RI2TW-59Sg2iqyg" href="https://meadowlark-books.square.site/shop/105-meadowlark-reader/2" style="background-color: white; color: #007c89; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Meadowlark online bookstore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> or by shopping with one of the following independent Kansas bookstores.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">Update: 7/01/2021</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">105 Meadowlark Reader is available at the following Kansas Book Shops:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="border-top: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="https://www.bookendshutch.com/" style="color: #274e13; text-decoration-line: none;">Bookends, Hutchinson</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(133, 133, 133); margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="https://www.booksandburrow.com/" style="color: #274e13; text-decoration-line: none;">Books & Burrow, Pittsburg</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(133, 133, 133); margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://www.claflinbooks.com/" style="color: #274e13; text-decoration-line: none;">Claflin Books, Manhattan</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(133, 133, 133); margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="https://www.crowandcobooks.com/bookstore" style="color: #274e13; text-decoration-line: none;">Crow & Co. 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Join us as Cheryl and Tracy discuss the inspiration behind 105 Meadowlark Reader: A Kansas Journal of Creative Nonfiction, the process of collecting submissions, writer response to the new project, and read excerpts from the essays that will be featured in Issue #1, with the theme of "Beginnings."</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>April 30, 7:00pm</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://emporia.edu/live"><b>emporia.edu/live</b></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-47017105705644318342021-03-17T16:37:00.008-05:002021-09-15T21:28:46.868-05:00Where is Issue #1 of 105 Meadowlark Reader going to take you?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhah3f5E_UWb2_ggZVxgDsM4VIByObFa7yXbS7RLasJlc_SgrYonECxpPWfmj0dAzGLegoLjF8hWgDTI5dw35q6hUv9ao3-tEvz-s7hd2ijsImrsGpCYZxNVdIM7FCIVLABZDNm561xrTH-/s913/issue01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="913" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhah3f5E_UWb2_ggZVxgDsM4VIByObFa7yXbS7RLasJlc_SgrYonECxpPWfmj0dAzGLegoLjF8hWgDTI5dw35q6hUv9ao3-tEvz-s7hd2ijsImrsGpCYZxNVdIM7FCIVLABZDNm561xrTH-/w640-h338/issue01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<div><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Reader,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We have 35 authors in the "Beginnings" issue, aka Issue #1, of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>. Those authors and their stories represent 25 Kansas counties. That's almost 24% of the state! We're off to a good start.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We know that you are as eager to get your eyes on this issue as we are to get it in the mail to you. Many thanks to our authors, our charter subscribers, and those who have supported our directory and advertising efforts. You have helped to make this project a reality.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If you haven't found us until now, no worries! There is always time to <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html">subscribe</a> and to be working on your contribution to <i>105: Meadowlark Reader</i>. In May, we look forward to reading essays for <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html">Issue #2: Kansas Travel Stories</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you coming along for the ride!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Tracy</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSAuur-L9npGnENe6YW9M0QOUb6YgXSKAjqdl1Cou2aNO9CClRGQ8yC1Ah6TKeKHG4i2B55LJ4eGLb6fiUiY79us-Ryw-V2KSbnWVt6grTeZCP6K_Qj_2y6pTgCIQfYJO7pf2IdAVw_MZ/s2048/Issue1Authors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2048" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSAuur-L9npGnENe6YW9M0QOUb6YgXSKAjqdl1Cou2aNO9CClRGQ8yC1Ah6TKeKHG4i2B55LJ4eGLb6fiUiY79us-Ryw-V2KSbnWVt6grTeZCP6K_Qj_2y6pTgCIQfYJO7pf2IdAVw_MZ/w640-h590/Issue1Authors.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-9446312848628328512021-03-05T12:00:00.008-06:002021-03-05T12:46:03.512-06:00What's in it for You, Dear Reader?<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZC0Fn35RNe9JdZD6f2NIhHAGTQ72axCwfT-U3zMPV8sp89p-15vhClaoN7F2FlNWiiWmSK0Lz8nL4BLUdeKchnECHmOdFicq3IzoZx4o3jtfEPWVifKxrwI0RxUDR_R2NugZXMP5RW16x/s640/image0+%25283%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZC0Fn35RNe9JdZD6f2NIhHAGTQ72axCwfT-U3zMPV8sp89p-15vhClaoN7F2FlNWiiWmSK0Lz8nL4BLUdeKchnECHmOdFicq3IzoZx4o3jtfEPWVifKxrwI0RxUDR_R2NugZXMP5RW16x/w300-h400/image0+%25283%2529.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2754da48-7fff-cae7-518a-f0f68f5a86e4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our upcoming <i>105</i> journal is a fantastic way to highlight Kansas writers and to publish their work. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">However, this journal of true Kansas stories is primarily for readers. Readers like you. And like me. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Today I’m thinking about what a reader might glean from the stories and</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">essays in our first issue and in subsequent issues. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You might take away…</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">*A sense of place. Because these true stories are set in Kansas, you’ll</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">recognize familiar settings. As you dig into a memoir piece, your own</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">memories will awaken, perhaps you’ll remember the taste of dust in the</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">wind, the fishy smell of a farm pond, the crunch of car tires driving</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">slowly over a sand-covered dirt street. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*You’ll come across storytelling that puts you in the scene with the</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">writer - hearing a baseball (or tennis ball) smack a glove, or the almost</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">silent whoosh of a kayak paddle in a Kansas river. When a writer tells</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">about building a disaster boat with his father and brother, you might</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">laugh along, but also may remember your own successful or</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">unsuccessful childhood projects. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">*Some of the essays show connection with our personal and public</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">histories. Through these pieces we begin to see the threads that underlie</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">various aspects of our lives, the unseen ties that connect us all. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our first issue will have 35 stories by 35 writers. Thirty-five pieces that</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">will make you feel at home. </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 72pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jump into this river of stories with us! <i><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Our introductory subscription rate is available only through March 12th. </span></a></i>
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Subscribe by March 12 for Reduced Subscription Rate<p><i>Update: Charter Subscriber Rate extended to March 12!</i></p><p>Brrrr! It's cold outside, and we are hard at work generating our own special brand of sunshine to share with our fellow Kansans in the pages of <i>105: Meadowlark Reader</i>. We have more than 30 authors representing a wide range of Kansas faces and places set for our inaugural issue of <i>105: Meadowlark Reader</i>. We can't wait to share. Take a moment to subscribe at our special, introductory rate. </p><p style="text-align: right;">Many Thanks, </p><p style="text-align: right;">Tracy & Cheryl </p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MUkRW1_9LhSjrRjR6JVNbRHG-d1tCPSxfOwzu9_Bj-QBfLJyhUsJdvY4wOrRqt1DGVFklCGB-5mNPIw_V6FDXrrmF66uLhpAjkAEaRz0CqmG5yPC-SumzX2RViTD81Km8E4V6t1tGUKH/s1800/sharedcommunity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MUkRW1_9LhSjrRjR6JVNbRHG-d1tCPSxfOwzu9_Bj-QBfLJyhUsJdvY4wOrRqt1DGVFklCGB-5mNPIw_V6FDXrrmF66uLhpAjkAEaRz0CqmG5yPC-SumzX2RViTD81Km8E4V6t1tGUKH/w426-h640/sharedcommunity.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://meadowlark-books.square.site/shop/105-meadowlark-reader/2" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Subscribe to 105 today!</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Pre-publication Special Subscription Offer </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1st issue for $13 + $4 shipping & applicable taxes (shipped April/May 2021)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1st year (2 issues) for $25+$4 shipping & applicable taxes (Issue #1 shipped April/May 2021; Issue #2 shipped October/November 2021)</span></li></ul></div><p><br /></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-74154562715410748702021-01-24T08:47:00.001-06:002021-01-24T08:47:24.005-06:00Update: 105 Meadowlark Reader<p> Our first deadline for submissions came and went, and Kansas writers came through for us. We were quite pleased by the number of entries received for our inaugural issue and we are busy reading and re-reading stories, working to put together the very first issue of <i>105 Meadowlark Reader</i>. </p><p>What can you do while you anxiously await the first issue?</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="https://meadowlark-books.square.site/shop/105-meadowlark-reader/2" target="_blank">Subscribe!</a></b> We are offering special, introductory pricing right now. You may purchase just the first issue, or save even more by purchasing issues #1 & #2 together. The price will go up, so don't delay. <a href="https://meadowlark-books.square.site/shop/105-meadowlark-reader/2" target="_blank">Subscribe today!</a></li></ul><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If you are more than a reader, if you provide services to writers or have a business those in the literary community might need to know about, please <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html" target="_blank">enter your details in our free directory</a>. Each issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader will include lists of resources for authors. What are we looking for? Editors and book doctors, artists and photographers who have an interest in working with authors, small presses and printers, bookstores and boutique shops that have a designated space for local writers in their stores, workshop leaders and writing clubs and organizations, publications of all shapes and sizes. We will provide paid advertising options, as well, but we won't contact you about that unless you express interest. It's safe. It's easy. We'd love to have you in our directory. <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html" target="_blank">Click here to enter your details now</a>. </li></ul><div><br /></div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Work on your entry for the next open reading period! Spend some time studying techniques of creative nonfiction. What is Creative Nonfiction? <a href="https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/what-creative-nonfiction" target="_blank">an answer from creativenonfiction.org</a> - <a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/creative_nonfiction/index.html" target="_blank">an overview from Purdue Writing Lab</a> - <a href="https://www.writingforward.com/creative-writing/writing-creative-nonfiction" target="_blank">a guide from writingforward.com</a>. And if you are just looking for tips and tricks for improving your writing, check out resources like <a href="https://writergrannysworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Writer Granny's World by Nancy Julien Kopp</a>, <a href="https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/workshops-readings-talks/" target="_blank">workshops and classes by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg</a>, and <a href="http://hazelhart.com/" target="_blank">grammar books by Hazel Hart</a>. <i>These women all answered our Directory call early. </i>Read local, shop small, support homegrown. </li></ul><div><br /></div></div><div>For those who entered essays and stories for our first call for submissions, we will be reaching out no later than March 1 to let you know where you are in the process. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you for joining us on this journey. Tell your friends about 105 Meadowlark Reader. This is just the beginning!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cheryl & Tracy </span></i></div><p></p>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-47919085200456098652020-12-07T05:00:00.001-06:002021-04-06T16:43:33.859-05:00Countdown to Submission Deadline <p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">It's December! You know what that means. You have a little over 3 weeks left to get your submission in to </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;">105 Meadowlark Reader</i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">. Just think. YOU could be in the inaugural issue. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Prompt: friendship</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"></p><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tell us about the beginning of a friendship. Perhaps it is one that is lost but well remembered, or perhaps it is one that grows deeper year by year. We are looking for true stories. Theme for our first issue: Beginnings. <a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html">Submit today</a>. </span></div><div><div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAuL9WTouHdzz-rWl38_522dwjfBUwDhA0wO6rJAPvmiQZ5CcxdCK-jtOP_Q4exrGli672tPbJcTtuCTETsWAQBPSiIU6X9i756DYKV-3dhMd_GYyt0sx_AxpxrtrkgY8OZryaLwJBh4L/s1500/swingset.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAuL9WTouHdzz-rWl38_522dwjfBUwDhA0wO6rJAPvmiQZ5CcxdCK-jtOP_Q4exrGli672tPbJcTtuCTETsWAQBPSiIU6X9i756DYKV-3dhMd_GYyt0sx_AxpxrtrkgY8OZryaLwJBh4L/w400-h400/swingset.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Submit.</a> (deadline = December 31)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Subscribe.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Add your details to our directory for writers.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s1600/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s320/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-58273558021824844332020-11-30T06:00:00.003-06:002021-04-06T16:43:44.598-05:00Pull us in; Make us feel something<p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Are you still trying to decide what to write for</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;">105 Meadowlark Reader</i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">? Over the next few weeks, we will be posting prompts to help you brainstorm ideas. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Prompt: quality time spent</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"></p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Share a memory of time spent with a special person in your life. Write about an unforgettable event, or perhaps just the way you carry that person with you still today. </span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezknDs0wwGq0adyiyRS9MitDAh9kPoiyiYDDPJwmW1mKmA4V2u4LR6TZVSFVwHN08yS6C7dWcw_E_IYm79IbNIeO7k9OC7H_wAJEjfif968NbZOSiW-y-0Srvo0MGsDYUVw5VWgfaryJF/s1500/writingprompt2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezknDs0wwGq0adyiyRS9MitDAh9kPoiyiYDDPJwmW1mKmA4V2u4LR6TZVSFVwHN08yS6C7dWcw_E_IYm79IbNIeO7k9OC7H_wAJEjfif968NbZOSiW-y-0Srvo0MGsDYUVw5VWgfaryJF/w400-h400/writingprompt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You don't have to be a seasoned writer to submit to 105: Meadowlark Reader. We are looking forward to hearing your true Kansas stories. Spread the word. Share our website link; share our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/105MeadowlarkReader" target="_blank">Facebook posts</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Submit.</a> (deadline = December 31)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Subscribe.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Add your details to our directory for writers.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s1600/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s320/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079913711689513440.post-27079071719456514482020-11-23T06:00:00.002-06:002021-04-06T16:43:52.160-05:00Who's your momma?<p> <span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Are you still trying to decide what to write for</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;">105 Meadowlark Reader</i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">? Over the next few weeks, we will be posting prompts to help you brainstorm ideas. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Prompt: parents and grandparents</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"></p><span style="font-size: x-small;">How did they meet? When did they come to Kansas and how did they arrive? What did they do when they got here?</span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aJ2v1O-qJ-dUyVswo7kYAJqzvHbWNzOhjPgrfiWv9CsqO0dHTZWWUG1L-Au5cbFxu7s52QaLPh7sRr_Ujx7NWRNPyK6r-C9kNivHieiW7c52JcaSQZIx-hSWRbod_IOrFs2zhaiQgG72/s1500/writingprompt4.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aJ2v1O-qJ-dUyVswo7kYAJqzvHbWNzOhjPgrfiWv9CsqO0dHTZWWUG1L-Au5cbFxu7s52QaLPh7sRr_Ujx7NWRNPyK6r-C9kNivHieiW7c52JcaSQZIx-hSWRbod_IOrFs2zhaiQgG72/s320/writingprompt4.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Share away! Make sure your county is represented in <i>105: Meadowlark Reader</i>. We are counting on you to submit and subscribe!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submission-guidelines.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Submit.</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/subscribe.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Subscribe.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.105meadowlarkreader.com/p/submit-to-105s-directory.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Add your details to our directory for writers.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s1600/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6eU9FiJFI_GMAz9DmHg4olO3xsN8jLH1XdQOo4sgoSvNgRVIOA5RGiFNuzhhYVMdzXmTVESos-5iSJcn7PfwjA0OxXIOWRVdWJly-9sejhZMvfpwRU9TDxQ39MJUU-tDbvh3O7HAiiP9h/s320/Meadowlark+Reader+Logo+LONG2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Tracy Million Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566716982333768811noreply@blogger.com0