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Longview Literary Festival

Event Information

October 14th & 15th
10:00am - 6:00 p.m

MCC-Longview

Mel Aytes Education Center
500 S.W. Longview Road
Lee's Summit, MO 64081

Susan Satterfield
Phone: 816.456.3156

 
 

Guest of Honor

Linda Rodriguez – FEATURED SPEAKER 

Linda Rodriguez’s novel, Every Last Secret, won the 2011 Malice Domestic First Novel Award from St. Martin’s Press and will be published in April 2012. Rodriguez has published two books of poetry, Heart’s Migration (Tia Chucha Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, and Skin Hunger (Potpourri Publications, 1995, Scapegoat Press, 2007). She received the 2010 Inspiration Award from the KC Arts Fund, the 2009 Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award from the Macondo Foundation, and the 2009 Midwest Voices and Visions Award from the Alliance of Artists Communities and the Joyce Foundation and has been both a Ragdale Fellow and a Macondo Fellow.

She is the vice-president of the Latino Writers Collective, founder/co-coordinator of the Kansas City Women Writers Reading Series, a founding board member of The Writers Place, and has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals and anthologies. Her poems have been broadcast on The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor (NPR) and New Letters on the Air (NPR).

She is currently working on a book of poetry based on teachings from her Cherokee grandmother, another novel, and a co-edited collection of essays by mixed-blood women writers.

Check out the author’s website: lindarodriguezwrites.blogspot.com

Guests of Honor

Confirmed Guests for the Longview Literary Festival 2011.

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M.C. Chambers writes science fiction and fantasy. Her fantasy story Silk and Velvet has just come out in the Hadley Rille Books anthology Renaissance Festival Tales. Her science fiction story Visual Silence won the 2008 Grand Prize in the Return to Luna story contest sponsored by the National Space Society and Hadley Rille Books. Other awards include an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest and a second place in the Heartland Writers' Guild New Writers Competition. She is a member of the NobleFusion writers' group since 1998.
Lewis Diuguid joined the staff of The Kansas City Star-Times in May 1977 after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. He is the author of an upcoming book, Discovering the Read America: Toward a More Perfect Union, and the 2004 award-winning book, A Teacher's Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today. A Teacher's Cry is rooted in his studies with the Class of 1999 from the students' freshman year until graduation at Washington High School in Kansas City, Kan. He wrote about 100 columns for The Star chronicling what it's like to be a teenager and teacher today.
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A Kansas City native, Lindsey Martin-Bowen teaches prose and fiction writing, literature and cultural studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also serves as Writing Assessment Coordinator. She holds an M.A. in English (creative writing emphasis) and a Juris Doctor. In 2008, Woodley Press (Washburn University) released Standing on the Edge of the World, a full-length collection of her poetry. The Gulf Times and The Kansas City Star named the collection one of the Top 10 (Most Noteworthy) poetry books for 2008, and LoHud.com listed it as one the "Best Books" (in the top 10 for poetry) in 2008. Last summer, Paladin Contemporaries published her novel, Hamburger Haven, available at Prosperos Books and at Amazon.com. Her novella Cicada Grove came out in 1992 (Paladin Contemporaries). Her poetry has appeared in New Letters, Rockhurst Review, Bare Root Review, Coal City Review, River King, Thorny Locust, Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Same, Black Bear Review, Kansas City Voices, Lip Service, and other literary magazines and anthologies, and is forthcoming in Little Balkans Review. For two years, she helped Carl Rhoden coordinate the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series.
Steve Murphy's story "Tearing Down Tuesday" was published in Interzone Magazine Issue 210. It placed fourth in the annual reader's poll, was nominated for the BSFA Short Story Award (long list, not final) and received an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction 25th Edition. It is slated for republication with Apex Digest Online later this year. Apex also published "The Limb Knitter." Go to apexbookcompany.com Steve also states the he is "also the historical and military research consultant to Australian writer John Birmingham. He is most notable in science fiction and alternate history circles for his Axis of Time Trilogy. I provided research for Final Impact, his third novel in the series and I provided research and advice for his next novel which is unrelated to the AoT trilogy, Without Warning. Further, I am slated to provide research for this follow on novel, After America." Steve was also editor of Shorelines for 2007 and received the Longview Crystal M. Fields Award for Excellence in Student Writing.
Carl Rhoden was born and raised in Kansas City. He holds an MA and MFA and served as the Associate Editor of the Colorado Review for two years. He has taught literature and composition at Western State College and Colorado State University and has studied with the poets David Ray and Charles Simic, to name a few. For four years, he coordinated the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series in Overland Park. He has published poems in literary journals since the mid-1970s, and in 1988, he won the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association Award for Poetry. His poetry has appeared in Rockhurst Review, Kansas City Star, Coal City Review, Review, Thorny Locust, The Same, and I-70 Review.
Susan Satterfield is the author of a number of published short stories including "Mirror of His Soul" and "The Changing," both appearing in Eldritch Tales, and "A Perfect World," appearing in the Yard Dog Press anthology, Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl, in November of 2000. Her chapbook, Mirror Images, was published by Yard Dog Press in May of 2002. "The Lady Killer" and "Sweet Teddy" appeared in an anthology entitled Small Bites in September 2004. She is also the author of "A Bubba Poet" found in The International House of Bubbas and "What Goes Around" from the anthology Flush Fiction, and "Close Encounters of the Bubba Kind," in the anthology, Houston, We've Got Bubbas. Her latest work, a zombie poem entitled "The Hunger," is now available in the new anthology, Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes. Susan is an English Instructor at MCC Longview.
Alan Spencer is the author of "The Body Cartel" (Damnation Books) and "Inside the Perimeter: Scavengers of the Dead" (Living Dead Press). Look for his work in many horror anthologies, including, "Love is Dead," "The Book of Cannibals," and "Book of the Dead 2," to a name a few. This fall, his latest short fiction will appear in the anthology "Toe Tags 2."

Confirmed Groups Attending:

The Dead Horse Society:

The Dead Horse Society is a group of speculative fiction writers (science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and their many sub-genres) who live and meet in the Kansas City area...Missouri and Kansas. www.meetup.com/KC-SpecFic-Writers

Heartland Romance Authors:

HeRA is a unique blend of ages, personalities, and talents with a membership base that is both comfortable and welcoming. Our membership consists of both published and unpublished authors in a variety of sub-genres. We are always anxious to share the insight we possess, as well as offer support and encouragement through all aspects of the writing and publishing experiences. www.heartlandromanceauthors.com

Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society:

The Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society is a club for fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror. The club's focus is on Science Fiction and Fantasy in all its many forms and permutations. There are many members who share an interest in SF & F literature (novels, short stories & magazines) SF & F art and media (films and TV), games and other areas of the science fiction and fantasy genre (SF/F). KaCSFFS (pronounced "kax-fuss") was founded in July 1971 and has been meeting monthly ever since. www.kcsciencefiction.org

Latino Writers Collective:

The Latino Writers Collective (LWC) is a group of Latino writers living and working in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Through bi-weekly meetings and critiques, the Collective helps hone and polish the work of its members for publication. In addition to creative support, the Collective organizes and coordinates projects for the larger community, including the Primera Página Reading Series, to showcase national and local Latino writers and provide role models and instruction to Latino youth. The LWC's mission is to foster an environment where the voices of Latino students, blue collar workers, professionals, and homemakers can finally be heard, contributing their experience and vision to the larger Kansas City community.
www.latinowriterscollective.org

Summit Scribes – Writers Group (Lee's Summit, Missouri)

The Summit Scribes is a writers group for all ages and for all types of writers. The meetings are held in Lee's Summit, a SE suburb of Kansas City, MO. Meeting attendance is typically 12 to 15. Annual dues are $24. The monthly meetings include a writing exercise, then writers read from what they have written or from an ongoing work and those present comment about the work. Three or four times a year, the program is a published author who speaks about their work and how they write and get published. Between monthly meetings, all members (nearly 100) receive several emails containing writing related information. visit our website

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