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71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… memory of Myra. This emotional distance creates ambiguity. Just as Nellie Birdseye constructs an image of Myra, American … mythmaking Cather and legacy building – memorialization, museums, adaptation, canonization Cather in public spaces and … are encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced

… Image 2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced Cohort in Residence … Lena Hari . Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals, and her work has been supported by … FarmGirl Press. Her poetry has been published in  Nebraska Life and in a chapbook,  Fencelines (2022). Her writing is …
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Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… that Willa Cather traveled before she became free to focus on her own writing—a road that included freelancing, … plays, and screenplays.  For example, emerging writers must not have published a novel-length work at the time of … October 5-19, 2025: Residency in Red Cloud Questions? Contact  residency@willacather.org . Past Cohorts 2023 …
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National Willa Cather Center

… arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block,” an 1887 structure that was fully restored and …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National … land and construct a modern new building. Instead, they selected the downtown 1902 Potter-Wright building for … these occasions in both her published work and private letters. Now joined with the Center’s preserved Farmers and …
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National Willa Cather Center Scholarship

… National Willa Cather Center Scholarship Due May 1 ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP / ELIGIBILITY The purpose of the National Willa Cather Center Scholarship is to provide financial … Cather’s writing made an impression, or detail the value of living in a rural community in which the Red Cloud Opera …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa … in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The installation ceremony occurred exactly six … for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln and at the National Willa …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
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Willa Cather Biography

… returned to Nebraska from Quebec in her penultimate novel,  Lucy Gayheart , Cather offers a description of a character which … (v). As she would later write of Clement Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and …
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