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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … own life experiences—such as travel—come through in her own writing. What are you doing this summer at the National …
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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 special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we … which will remain on display in the Red Cloud Opera House gallery through August 31, were all created in response to …
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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

… Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … Willa Cather Memorial Prairie with time for on-site nature writing; and a reception that provides participants with the …
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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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