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Attention Educators: 2016-17 Student Outreach Opportunities

… Educators: 2016-17 Student Outreach Opportunities August 12, 2016 Another school year is ready to begin and we’d … programs or bringing your students to Red Cloud, please contact Education Director Tracy Tucker, … specifically to your class readings and discussions. Contact Education Director Tracy Tucker to schedule a tour, …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… our International Seminar to Nebraska by combining the two events into a weeklong, Nebraska-wide celebration of … on both the publication centenary of Cather’s novel, The Song of the Lark , and the larger discussion surrounding the novel, that …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Call for Papers September 8, 2015 “Both Bitter and Sweet”: Cather, Literature, and the Great War CALL FOR PAPERS The … First World War and represent a time to re-examine Cather’s writing of that period, particularly her 1922 novel One of … Tracy Tucker, along with a short resumé or vita ( ttucker@willacather.org ).  The 61st annual Willa Cather Spring …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … poetry as much as she was to the short fiction she was also writing then. Much has been made of her enthusiasm for the …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's … The workshop will take place in Red Cloud, Nebraska; the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Guided …
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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work

… of a Lost Work December 16, 2011 At her death in 1947, Willa Cather was working on a story -- or perhaps a novel -- set … titled "Hard Punishments." By all surviving accounts, the writing Cather had completed was destroyed upon her death, …
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Red Cloud, Nebraska

… Image Red Cloud, Nebraska Willard Thorp, in "American Writing in the Twentieth Century" says, "from the literary … largest living memorial to an author in the country. Willa Cather spent her childhood in this small railroad town, and …
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Woodress Research Scholars Grant

… Image Woodress Research Scholars Grant October 6, 2014 The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln … for four consecutive weeks, in order to conduct research on Willa Cather using Cather resources in Nebraska and at UNL. … and resources at UNL to your project sample of scholarly writing (20-25pp: preferably focusing on Cather, though not …
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Elderhostel

… Image Elderhostel March 25, 2009 Red Cloud:  Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the … author Willa Cather's life, time, history, and writing. Steven B. Shively, a premier Cather scholar, will …
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Prairie Writers' Workshop

… Image Prairie Writers' Workshop May 29, 2009 "Fiction and Art": A fiction writing … Foundation would like to invite you to attend this year's Prairie Writers' Workshop scheduled for July 13 through 17. …
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