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• The Crystal Field Open Mic Reading (Theme: Dreams

  • When
    20 May 2022
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    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place, 31 W 31st ST KCMO 64108

  
  

  

  The Crystal Field Scholarship Open Mic Reading

  The Writers Place Reading Series presents annual Crystal Field Scholarship Reading.  Theme for the year is “Dreams.”   

  The annual Crystal Field Scholarship Reading is a themed Open Mic event.  The theme for 2022 is “Dreams.”  All donations collected for the evening help support the Crystal Field Scholarship for a creative writing student at UMKC.  What makes this scholarship different is that all of the donations come from writers supporting potential writers.  Those who cannot attend can still give a donation.

  All participants must sign up before the reading as participation is limited to fit a time frame.  Participants may read one poem or short fiction or nonfiction piece under five minutes on the theme.

  Crystal MacLean Field was an area poet, workshop leader, and teacher.  She published The Good Woman and My Sister’s Leather Bag.  She began a Communiversity writing group that met once a month for twenty years, and she helped establish the Kansas City Writing Series (later the Simpson House Reading Series.  She died unexpectedly of a heart attack.  This scholarship honors her community contributions, and many of the readers have participated for most if not all of the years.    

  
  

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• The Writers Place Reading Series featuring Steve Paul, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Debbie Theiss

  • When
    17 Jun 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Writers Place, 31 W 31st ST, KCMO 64108

  
  

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• Rose Garden Reading

  • When
    9 Jul 2022
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    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Loose Park Garden Center – Rose Room

  
  

  Loose Park Rose Garden Reading celebrating our current Missouri Poet Laureate, Maryfrances Wagner.

  Poet Greg Field will lead off, followed by Maryfrances, finishing up with Q&A.

  
  

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• TWP Reading Series featuring Barbara Crocker, Jim Daniels, and Miles Waggener

  • When
    15 Jul 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual via Zoom

  
  

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• Book Release Event

  • When
    30 Jul 2022
  •  
    2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st ST, Kansas City MO 64108

  After years of zooming and not being able to sell books live, the Writers Place will hold a Book Release and Signing event at 31W31st Nonprofit Village on Saturday, July 30, 2022, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. 

  
  

  Any member who has published a book in 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022 is welcome to participate.  Please let us know if you want to join us so that we'll have an idea of how many tables we will need. 

  
  

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• Rose Garden Reading

  • When
    22 Oct 2022
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    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Loose Park Garden Center – Rose Room

  
  

  
  

  Phyllis Becker, poet
  

  Greg German, poet

  Angela Hagenbach, novelist

  
  

  Angela will be reading an excerpt from her historic novel about her family’s life in Weston, MO.

  
  

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