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Newly Appointed Board Members Announced

… Newly Appointed Board Members Announced January 9, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation, along with a global community of scholars … at the 2016 spring conference. She is currently writing a life of the writer and social activist Elizabeth …
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Attention Educators: 2016-17 Student Outreach Opportunities

… please contact Education Director Tracy Tucker, ttucker@willacather.org or 402-746- 2653. We hope to see you and your … The required essay can be developed from an in-class writing project and deadlines are in early 2017. …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very … Conference in Red Cloud, we also welcomed the return of our International Seminar to Nebraska by combining the two … Smith’s remarks. Due to the combined Spring Conference and International Seminar, a second keynote address was given in …
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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

… Willa Cather Memorial Prairie with time for on-site nature writing; and a reception that provides participants … K. Stillwell, artist in residence. The workshop will take place in Red Cloud, Nebraska; the childhood home of Pulitzer … May 19 10:00-11:45 a.m. Tour of the Cather Prairie/on-site nature writing 1:00-5:00 p.m. Writing workshop. The Poet's …
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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work

… surfaced, in the collection given to the University of Nebraska Foundation by Cather's nephew, Charles E. Cather, … Library fragment (PDF) "Hard Punishments" University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries fragments (PDF) Members of the …
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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

… the Willa Cather Foundation invites you to Red Cloud, Nebraska and into the exciting work of Willa Cather. Our …
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