2004 Speaker Information
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Featured Speakers

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE: The Sage of Emporia (1868-1944)
Cosponsor: Kansas Humanities Council History Alive!
White, a member of Kansas Authors Club from 1905 until his death in 1944, enjoyed a national spotlight as he molded public opinion with his books, stories, and editorials in the Emporia Gazette. A Republican party leader, White knew Teddy Roosevelt and Alf Landon, and even ran for Kansas governor himself. Come enjoy the small-town philosopher and editor as he reflects on politics and his remarkable life. FRED KREBS, who teaches American history at Johnson County Community College, portrays White.

MEETING OF MINDS: At the Saturday evening Awards Banquet, a panel of early Kansas Authors Club members–poet Eugene Fitch Ware, novelist Margaret Hill McCarter, and newspaperman William Allen White, moderated by publisher Frank McLennan– discussed Kansas literature at the beginning of the 20th century. Other early Kansas authors were on hand to address the panel.

DON COLDSMITH, Kansas novelist and columnist, author of “The Spanish Bit Saga,” was featured speaker at Saturday lunch. Don is one of Kansas’s best-selling authors. His collection of his newspaper columns, Still Horsin' Around, was published in Kansas by Dancing Goat Press. He is best known for his series of historical novels, “The Spanish Bit Saga,” with more than 6 million copies in print. Don writes and ranches near Emporia.

JANE KURTZ, Kansas author of children’s books, was featured speaker at the Kansas Authors Club Youth Contest Awards on Friday evening. Jane also presented a workshop on writing for children and getting your book published. Jane has had 22 books published since 1994, many dealing with her childhood in Ethiopia. She is a member of Kansas Authors Club and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She has recently moved to Hesston from Grand Forks, SD.

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Workshop Schedule
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Friday, October 22
4:00-5:30 p.m. Emerald III	Jane Kurtz, children's author, Writing and Publishing Books for Children
Saturday, October 23
9:30-10:30 a.m.	Workshops on various aspects of writing and publishing in many genres
Wheat Bison River	A.. B.. C..	Research for Fiction Bob Lawson and Eleanor Bell, Sonnet Susan Marchant, Kansas Center for the Book
10:45-11:45 a.m.	Workshops
Wheat Bison River	A.. B.. C..	Fred Krebs, Kansas Literature Naomi Patterson, The Cheese Stands Alone: Poetry Memoir Writing
1:30-2:30 p.m.	Workshops
Wheat Bison River	A.. B.. C..	Rick Bruner, The Inner Songwriter Naomi Patterson, The Cheese Stands Alone: Poetry Carol Yoho, Self-Publishing
2:45-3:45 p.m.	General Session
Emerald III	William Allen White, Sage of Emporia, Comes to Topeka (Fred Krebs) —Co-sponsor: Kansas Humanities Council History Alive!
Sunday, October 24
10:30-11:30 a.m.	Workshops
Bison Room Shawnee A River Room	A.. B.. C..	Elizabeth Nichols, In the Moment: Haiku and Senryu Mark Bouton, Getting Your Novel Published Barbara-Waterman Peters, Author as Artist: Handmade Books

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KAC Convention 2003
2003 Writing Contest Winners

KAC Convention 2002
2002 Writing Contest Winners

J. Donald Coffin Award
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award
Nelson Poetry Award

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