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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… 24, 2015 2015 was a very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we celebrated our … theme, “’Fragments of Desire’: Cather and the Arts,” focused on both the publication centenary of Cather’s novel, … was given in Lincoln. Nebraska native Terese Svoboda spoke about how her Nebraska roots have shaped her own work, …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… her novels written during WWI— The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia — and through her letters, her essays “Roll Call …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets … -10:45 a.m. Remarks by Thomas Reese Gallagher, Willa Cather Foundation Vice-President and Leslie Levy, Willa Cather … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' …
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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

… literary standpoint, Red Cloud ranks as one of the most famous villages in American Literature." This is because Red … railroad town, and it is the mission of the Willa Cather Foundation to promote and assist in the development and … this beautiful, brick street town. Click here to learn more about Red Cloud. Click here to search past issues of the Red …
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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

… and Class discussion : Novels:  My Ántonia, A Lost Lady , Death Comes for the Archbishop Short Stories:  "A Wagner Matinee," "Neighbour …
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Prairie Writers' Workshop

… Writers' Workshop May 29, 2009 "Fiction and Art": A fiction writing workshop, with a careful look at art and design in Nebraska narratives. The Willa Cather Foundation would like to invite you to attend this …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… Image Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather …
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