Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2006
Junction City KS • District 4 hosted
Courtyard Marriott
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Workshop Presenters
Convention Program Schedule
2006 Youth Contest Results
2006 Book Awards
J. Donald Coffin Memorial Award,
Trudy McFarland, Diary of a German War Bride
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award, Stephen D. Coats, Ph.D,
Gathering at the Golden Gate: Mobilizing for War in the Philippines, 1898
Nelson Poetry Award, Matthew Porubsky, voyeur poems
2006 Karnowski Youth Poetry Award Winners
2006 Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest Results
2006 Kansas Authors Club Awards of Merit
2006 Convention Photos
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Jonathan Holden, appointed first Kansas Poet Laureate on July 1, 2005, has been recognized as one of America's foremost poets. He is a University Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Jon Holden has won numerous awards, with prizes ranging up to $20,000. Twice he has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. In 1995, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa chose Holden's poetry collection, The Sublime, for the Vassar Miller Prize.
Jon Holden has published 17 books, all monographs, in addition to more than 190 poems published in professional journals. In 1986, he received the Kansas State University Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2000, he was a member of the committee that selects the Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry.
Holden earned his bachelor's degree in 1963 in English from Oberlin College, his master's degree in 1970 in English with creative writing from San Francisco State College, and his doctorate in 1974 in English from the University of Colorado. He has been at Kansas State University since 1978.
2006 Convention Program Schedule
| FRIDAY, SEPT. 29 |
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Hospitality Room open
Early registration
Youth Contest Awards
Read-Around |
Mary-Lane Kamberg, Contest manager
3-minute limit per reader |
| SATURDAY, SEPT. 30 |
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Registration
Book Room/Silent Auction Open
State Board Meeting
Workshop Block One : |
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Critique Group
"How to Sell/Publish Online"
"Great Beginnings; Romantic and Otherwise" |
Sandra Detrixhe, Moderator
Nancy Julien Kopp
Linda Madl, Romance writer |
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Lunch on your own
Workshop Block Two: |
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"How to Sell/Publish Online'
"Your Setting Is More Than a Stage'
"How to Write About Kansas History" |
Nancy Julien Kopp
Linda Madl, Romance writer
Roy Bird,
KS history writer |
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Workshop Block Three: |
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Poetry Writing Workshop "Athletes of the Mind"
— bring paper and pencil to this workshop
Critique Group
"Current Trends in Publishing Among KS Authors"
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Jonathan Holden, KS Poet Laureate
Sandra Detrixhe, Moderator
Roy Bird, KS Center for the Book
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Awards Banquet:
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Nelson Poetry Award
J. Donald Coffin Memorial Award
Ferguson History Award
KAC Service Awards
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Raymond Nelson
Karen Sells Brown, KAC VP
Pat Ferguson
Cynthia Ross, Awards Chair |
| Keynote Address |
Jonathan Holden, Keynote Speaker |
| SUNDAY, OCT. 1 |
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Meditation
Rosemary Time
General Business Meeting of Kansas Authors Club
and election of 2207 officers |
Pastor Hal Jones, Eskridge Baptist
Don Pady, KAC Archivist
—All members are encouraged to participate |
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Sunday Workshop : |
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"Writing a Hometown Newspaper Column" |
LeNore Stumpf |
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Luncheon
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Buster & Betty Jenkins, live music |
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Karnowski Youth Poetry Awards
KAC Writing Contest Awards
Poetry
Prose
Invitation to Convention 2007 |
William J. Karnowski
Susan Kinney Riordan, Poetry Contest Mgr.
Margaret Shauers, Prose Contest Mgr.
District 5 Members |
2006 Karnowski Youth Poetry Award Winners:
1st: Mason Johnson, Burlington, "I Killed a Man"
2nd: Madeline Roger, Baldwin City, "Stronger than Me"
3rd: Shane Johnston, Topeka, "Grandma's Kitchen"
2006 Kansas Authors Club Awards of Merit:
Achievement: Richard Paul Tanos, District 3 , Coffeyville
Twelve published novels, active in District 3
Achievement: Helen Long, District 4 , Manhattan
Active in District 4, contest manager, history, drama
Service Award: Christie Breault, District 5 , Benton
Youth Contest manager and Writers in the Schools chair, stories for children,
fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Service Award: Karen Sells Brown, District 1, Topeka
State vice-president & newsletter editor, instrumental in planning the
2004 Centennial Convention, District 1 president, editor, poet
Special Accomplishment Award: Mary-Lane Kamberg, District 2, Olathe
Published seven books, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, Youth Contest manager and
Writers in the Schools chair, KC Writers Group,k Summer Youhg WRITERs Camp
Special Accomplishment Award: Joann Williams, District 2, Princeton
District 2 president, fiction, non-fiction
Special Presentation,Outgoing President: Doris Schroeder, District 6 , Hutchinson
Youth Awards
Because of the exciting, but a bit overwhelming response to this year’s Youth Contest Awards presentation, the location of the awards presentation were moved from the convention hotel to the 4-H/Senior Center Building near the fairgrounds in Junction City. —See Winners' List
