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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, … Carlyle to the Nebraska State Journal for publication. Writing still has the power to significantly alter a …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes … matched the scenes I saw and recorded perfectly. So I learned about Cather and sought out her other works, … and imagine what it was like in those days. The land, the prairie, the vegetation and isolated homesteads, and the …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… Primarily stewardship projects, streamlining our membership database and its communication with our website, and …
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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 … very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we celebrated our 60th Spring Conference 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
… have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her … & Saturday Inspired by April Twilights Exhibit, Gallery Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather Exhibit by Richard …
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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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