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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 … to advance your skills. Please join us in July to learn from an established novelist and to experience the …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in  1922, at Middlebury … As a matter of fact, she never again taught a creative writing workshop and stood lifelong in moral opposition to …
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Registration is Open for Prairie Writers' Workshop with John T. Price

… Image Registration is Open for Prairie Writers' Workshop with John T. Price April 13, 2010 The Willa Cather … to advance your skills. Please join us in May to learn from an established author and to experience the …
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Turn the Page Literary Tour

… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of … home and other historic sites related to her life and writing Performances at the historic Red Cloud Opera House …
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2014 Spring Conference Highlights

… opened Thursday with a day of scholarly presentations on Cather, her contemporaries, and the literary environment. We … Road and One Degree West talked about her most recent writing projects. After a full day of papers and … morning we welcomed our Norma Ross Walter and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner scholarship winners and their families to …
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