Recent District 3 Meeting: Sat., Apr. 14,2012
Details of the next district meeting will appear here as they become available.
Anyone interested in writing is encouraged to attend District 3 meetings.
D3 Meetings are held at twice yearly at Windsor Place Campus Center, 2921 W. 1st St., Coffeyville.
—All writers are welcome to attend.
Next Night Writers Meeting: Tues., May 22, 2012
at Sycamore Landing at 6 PM.
Lois Vail will be hostess. Her assignment: “Write about a place were you want or wanted to be alone.”
Night Writers usually meets every fourth Tuesday, 6 p.m., at Sycamore Landing, 701 Lewark, Coffeyville.
Anyone interested in writing is invited to attend these meetings.
Night Writers: Lois Vail is president and Ursula Turner is secretary/treasurer.
Member News:
May News: Grant Williams
Apr. News: Grant Williams
Mar. News: Frankie Roland
Feb. News: Grant Williams
Jan. News: Grant Williams
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2012 District 3 Writing Contest Winners
Prose judges were John and Wendy Alvey. There were 36 entries submitted for prose.
| Children's Story (6 entries) |
Memoir (13 entries) |
1st
2nd
3rd
HM |
Louise Click
Grant Williams
Grant Williams
Frankie Roland |
1st
2nd
3rd
HM
HM2
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Louise Click
Ursula Turner
Grant Williams
Frankie Roland
Frankie Roland |
| Short Stories (6 entries) |
Inspiration (11 entries) |
1st
2nd
3rd
HM |
Grant Williams
Grant Williams
Grant Williams
Louise Click |
1st
2nd
3rd
HM
HM2 |
Lois Vail
Louise Click
Ursula Turner
Frankie Roland
Ursula Turner |
Poetry judge was Jaque Rooks.
| Whimsey |
Free Verse |
1st
2nd
3rd |
Louise Click
Grant Williams
Grant Williams |
1st
2nd
3rd
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Grant Williams
Grant Williams
Betty Day |
| Japanese |
Rhyming |
1st
2nd
3rd |
Grant Williams
Ursula Turner
Louise Click
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1st
2nd
3rd |
Grant Williams
Betty Day
Barbara Cooper |
KAC Third District 3 joined with the Coffeyville Public Library for a Community
Read Around on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Participants were writers of all ages, from 14 years old to college students, young adults
and senior citizens. Everyone enjoyed the event. We read from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and then visited.
Refreshments were provided by the library, and future read arounds may be scheduled.
Past KAC 2012 Events:
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Third District of Kansas Authors Club met Saturday, April 14 at the Windsor Place Campus Center.
Lois Hendrix, president, opened the meeting by asking attendees to introduce themselves and tell about their current writing projects. These members attended the meeting:
- Lois Vail is working on a book that involves Hollyhocks with the story moving from one bloom to the other.
- Grant Williams has published two books, Another Day, a novel, and Ten Degrees, a volume of short stories.
- Ruth Ames is starting a book about her grandmother who came by her land through the land rush.
- Barbara Cooper is anticipating writing a story about the angels she experienced.
- Lois Hendrix is working on her book on Burma.
- Ursula Turner is about to finish her book she titled My German Christmas.
A motion was made by Grant Williams to send a check, for $400 to Fourth District for seed money for their convention. It was seconded by Ruth Ames and carried.
A nominating committee was selected with the election of officers to be held at the fall meeting which will take place on Sept. 8 at the same time and place.
Winners of the writing contest were announced.
New Officer nominations were taken for the new 2012-2013 year. Elections
will be at the Fall meeting.
Lunch was a covered dish event with a silent auction to sell our "treasures."
Past Night Writers 2012 Events:
Tues., Apr. 28:
Night Writers of Coffeyville met Tuesday, April 28, at Sycamore Landing, with 9 members and one guest, Tommy Amberg, attending.
The recent Third District Spring meeting was discussed along with the lack of membership. The group also discussed visiting the Independence writing group at their next meeting with the aim of possibly recruiting some of their members for the Kansas Authors Club.
Ursula Turner mentioned that some more read-arounds might be considered, only not at the same locations. She mentioned several possibilities.
With the business part of the meeting over, members read their assignments: “Your favorite musician”, given by hostess Ruth Ames. Everybody had a story to tell. Pinky Atkinson brought her laptop and let the group watch and listen to Andre Rieu's rendition of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" on his violin.
Tues., Mar. 27: Lois Hendrix was hostess for the March meeting. Her assignment was to “write about something you are thankful for.”
Tues., Feb. 28:
Night Writers of Coffeyville met Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Sycamore Landing with 12 members attending.
With Lois Vail, Night Writers president, absent, Ursula Turner took her place. She passed around first-day-of-school pictures from Germany where children receive large cardboard cones that are decorated on the outside and are filled with goodies and are meant to take the fear of school away.
Louise Click announced that the Coffeyville Public Library is looking for stories about the library with a 250 word limit.
Lois Hendrix, District 3 president, handed out information from the University of Tulsa for those who might be interested to enter the Nimrod writing competition. Entry fee is $20. She also announced that the district meeting for D3 will be held April 14 at 9 a.m. at the Windsor Place Campus Center.
Turner asked some questions from a book about Kansas trivia, followed by members reading their assignments about the seasons.
Tues., Jan. 24: “write something concerning names.”
Night Writers of Coffeyville met Tuesday, Jan. 24, at Sycamore Landing, with ten members attending.
Lois Vail, president, opened the meeting at 6 p.m. She asked member to be sure to bring Best Choice labels to the next meeting. She then asked if anyone had any old or new business.
Lois Hendrix, District 2 president, read the treasurer's report and also passed around information about the expenses the district had due to the Kansas Authors Club state convention held in Coffeyville last October.
Ursula Turner posed some questions to members from a Kansas trivia book she had found. Some of the questions are quite difficult.
After all the business had been taken care of, everybody read their assignments which had to do with names, and there were a number of takes on the subject. Lois Vail, who had been unable to attend the last meeting read her assignment for that which was to write about something funny, and she had everybody in stitches.
Officers of Kansas Authors Club, District 3
for 2012-2013:
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
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Lois Hendrix
Ruth Ames
Joyce Long
Grant Williams
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