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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Image 61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers September 8, 2015 “Both Bitter and Sweet”: Cather, Literature, and the Great War CALL FOR PAPERS The years 2014–2018 mark the centennial of the First …
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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 … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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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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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

… 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

… 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

… Writers' Workshop with John T. Price April 13, 2010 The Willa Cather Foundation would like to invite you to attend this … where he earned his B.A. in Religion, M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing and Ph.D. in English. A recipient of a fellowship …
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