Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Accomplices Issue: Cover Reveal

 

girl leading horse

105 Meadowlark Reader / Accomplices / Issue 8: Fall 2024 /

Cover Photo by Dave Leiker. PrairieDust.net

Subject: Sarah Beth Pringle and Elmira.

We were thrilled to find this image from photographer Dave Leiker for the Accomplices issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader. Don’t these two look like they are up to something? A girl and her horse, off on an adventure.


The “Accomplices” issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader will ship in November. Please plan to pick your copy up from your nearest 105 Bookstore Partner (see the list below) or make sure your subscription with us is current. Our 8th issue, with the theme of Accomplices, features 40 essays representing 30 Kansas counties.


Is your 105 collection missing an issue? Individual copies can be ordered via our website. We are currently running a sale for issues 1-6 (regularly $101.94, on sale for $84). This would be a great time to encourage your local library to add 105 Meadowlark Reader to their Kansas bookshelves!


Our journal is printed in Kansas, too!


Thinking about writing a true story for us? The next theme is LUCKRead our guidelines for submissions here. We start taking submissions on November 1, 2024.

Thank You to our Partner Bookstores!

We are pleased to distribute 105 Meadowlark Reader through the following independent bookstores.

Read local. Shop local.


If your local bookstore is not on this list, please encourage them to become a bookstore partner! info@meadowlark-books.com


Books & Burrow

212 S. Broadway St.

Pittsburg, KS 66762

booksandburrow.com



Claflin Books & Copies

103 N. 4th St.

Manhattan, KS 66502

www.claflinbooks.com


Crow & Co. Books

2 S Main St.

Hutchinson, KS 67501

www.crowandcobooks.com


Eighth Day Books

2838 E. Douglas

Wichita, KS 67214

www.eighthdaybooks.com


Flint Hills Books

130 W. Main Street

Council Grove, KS 66846

www.flinthillsbooks.com


The Literary Cat Co.

915 N. Broadway

Pittsburg, KS 66762

theliterarycatco.com


Middle Ground Books

606 Commercial St.

Emporia, KS 66801

www.middlegroundbooks.com


Raven Book Store

809 Massachusetts

Lawrence, KS 66044

www.ravenbookstore.com


Red Fern Booksellers

106 South Santa Fe Ave

Salina, KS 67401

redfernbooksellers.com


Round Table Bookstore

NOTO

826 N Kansas Ave

Topeka, KS 66608

roundtablebookstore.com


Russell Specialty Books & Gifts

626 N Main Street

Russell, KS 67665

russellbookstore.com


Watermark Books & Café

4701 E Douglas | Wichita, KS 67218

www.watermarkbooks.com

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Meet the Authors of Our Accomplices Issue, #8, Shipping in November 2024

We asked writers to share their accomplice stories, and Kansas writers delivered! The next issue of 105 Meadowlark Reader brings you 40 true stories written by current and former Kansans. Is your subscription current? You don't want to miss this issue.



Granny and Her Peacekeeper
by Ann Vigola Anderson

Between the Pages by Lindsey Bartlett

Copilot by Boyd Bauman

Resting Place by Riley Brokeshoulder

Pflugerville by Cathy Callen

The Special Assignment by Linda Cook

Holy Hound Dog by Annabelle Corrick

Fait Accompli by Phyllis Marsh Dorcas

Uncle Cal’s Knife by Roger K. Droz

Aliens Have Landed by Angel Edenburn

A Child’s Crime by Sue Flowers

Economy of Eggs by Carolyn Hall

Students-On-A-Stick by Roger Heineken

They Simply Could Not Do It Alone by Jerilynn Jones Henrikson

Gift Conspiracy by Duane L. Herrmann

Laverne Johnson by Tom Holmquist

Margaret and Marilyn Take the Best Ride at the Fair by Marilyn Hope Lake

The Four Musketeers, a.k.a. The Sucky Mis-Adventure by Deb Irsik

High School Hi-Jinks by Julie Johnson

Pen Pals on the Plains by Kiesa Kay

Secret Santa by Mary-Lane Kamberg

Halloweening by James Kenyon

Gumshoes by Amy Kliewer

Kittens in Kansas by Evan Kreger

The Best of Accomplices by Danton McDiffet

Under the Streetlights by Cynthia Mines

Walt Disney and Me by Peg Nichols

Kindergarten Accomplice by Esther Deckert Sayler

A Sticky Situation by Cynthia C. Schaker

James, John, and a Loose Cannon by Harland Schuster

The Clauses Crash the Christmas Dance by Julie A. Sellers

The Trickle Down of Terrorism: Today’s Signs of the Mayhem Perpetrated by a Mob in 1916 by Sandra Lou Taylor

Sisters in Cahoots by Mason Taylor-Taite

Thomas Justagato by Victoria Vaughn

Wakarusa by Primo Ventello

You Want Fries with Your Dead Body? by Chuck Warner

Nobody Told Us We Couldn’t by Barbara Waterman-Peters

My Hero, Bill by Brenda L. White

Driver’s Education by Sheree L. Wingo

Wild Girls, Wonderful Women by Michelle Zumbrum 

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Meet the Authors of Our Intersections Issue, #7, Shipping May 2024

 


Our Intersections issue features 33 authors representing 24 counties. This issue includes 13 never-before-published-in-105 authors and three new counties (Graham, Jefferson, and Pawnee).

We are pleased to share these true Kansas stories with readers of 105 Meadowlark Reader, shipping in May 2024.


“The Middle of Nowhere” by Alicia Troike 

“Between the Dead and Me” by Amanda L. Little 

“Flowers and Memories” by Amanda Schultz 

“Friendship Forged over Fetal Pig” by Amy D. Kliewer  

“Last Letter” by Ann Christine Fell 

“The Trader Joe’s Egg Aisle” by Audrey Phillips

“A Second Meeting in Manhattan” by Barbara Waterman-Peters 

“Can You Tell Me How to Get to Oklahoma City?” by Beth Gulley 

“Waves of Intersection” by Boyd Bauman 

“Seventeenth and Washburn” by Carlos Velez 

“Railroad Ties” by C. E. Emmer 

“Technobaby Crossroads” by Charles L. Martin 

“A Retirement Revelation” by Chuck Warner 

“Getting Pregnant at My Age?” By Errin D. Moore 

“A Love Story” by James Kenyon

“At the Intersection of Kansas and Anywhere in the World” by Cynthia Mines 

“Orphan Annie’s Secret Clubhouse” by Jennifer Broadstreet Hess 

“Families and Fates of Robert Parks” by Jim Potter  

“Harper Court and Minneapolis Street” by Julie Johnson  

“The Town at the Crossroads” by Julie A. Sellers 

“The Sparrow’s Whistle” by Julie Stielstra 

“Intersecting with the Mob” by Linda Cook 

“Particulars of Place” by Candace Plett Krebs 

“What a Tai Chi Master Taught Me About Writing” by Mary-Lane Kamberg 

“Planting Coins” by Matthew Porubsky 

“Double Cousins and the Carnival Keepsake” by Roger Heineken 

“Not in My Plan” by Sandee Lee  

“Night Train to Frankfurt” by Stan Finger 

“Library Cards” by Susan Brinkman  

“Crossroads” by Thomas Holmquist 

“Lessons from the Intersection of Tallgrass and Tabor Valley” by Tim Keane 

“The Road to Kansas” by Victoria Vaughn 

“Summer Running” by Walter Moak 

 


Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Pushcart Prize Nominations

 Dear 105 Readers and Writers, 


We are proud to announce the following nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to the following authors.


Flesh Made Word, by Boyd Bauman (issue #6)

Grave Diggers, by Susan D. Brinkman (issue #5)

Revolution at the End of the World, by Rex Buchanan (issue #6)

A Pet for the Ages, by Phyllis McKenzie (issue #5)

Kitty's Tale, by Harland J. Schuster (Issue #5)

The Garden of Eden in Concrete, by Jesse Tyler (issue #6)

 

 More about the Pushcart Prize and Publication can be found here.


Much love and good reading!

Tracy & Cheryl

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Meet the Authors of our Landmark Stories, Issue 6

 


Our Landmark issue has 33 authors representing 29 counties. 

James Aber - Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield
James Aber & Susan Aber - Santa Fe Trail
Lindsey Bartlett - Land of the Post Rock
Boyd Bauman - Flesh Made Word
Mary Ann Blaufuss - Landmarks of My Youth
Jenna Brack - Dad's Kansas Tours
Lori Brack - Central Kansas Rock Gods
Rex Buchanan - Revolution at the End of the World
Linda Cook - Anderson Hall
Ann Christine Fell - American's Most Famous Unknown Woman
Stan Finger - The Tunnel of Trees
Monica Graves - Stone Arch Bridge Crossing
Carolyn Hall - Guideposts of the Plains
Cheryl Heide - Flyover Harlan
Thomas Holmquist - Soldier's Cap
Marlysue Holmquist - Lovisa's Landmarks
Nancy Julien Kopp - Johnny Kaw Speaks to a Child
Marilyn Hope Lake - "Downunder" in Kansas
Jesse Tyler - The Garden of Eden in Concrete
Kaye McIntyre - Exploring Kansas
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - Castle Rock in the Light of Day
Rick Nichols - Hams and Eggs
John Olson - A Family Landmark
Harland Schuster - That Time Kansas Grew by Over 600 Feet
Julie A. Sellers - Harvey Girl
Melissa Stanton - Aeolian Sands
Julie Stielstra - Eleanor, Daughter
Sandee Lee - Wrong Way Tornado
Leon Unruh - The Invisible Map
Victoria Vaughn - Ascending the High Plains
Barbara Waterman-Peters - At the Capitol
Jon Kelly Yenser - Intemperate Wichita
Michelle Zumbrum - The Farm That Built Us


Wednesday, May 10, 2023

A Note to our Readers and Writers

 

Thank you for taking this journey with us! Since we published our “Beginnings” issue in the spring of 2021, we have shared stories by so many talented writers from across the state. We hope that you are thinking about writing for us, too!

As of Issue #5, the animal issue—

  • we have published 117 Kansas-connected writers

  • we have published stories from 70 Kansas counties,

  • we have added the Ad Astra Award for excellence in writing and have plans to continue honoring two writers per issue ($50 cash prize per award),

  • we have partnered with seven independent Kansas bookstores,

  • we have shipped copies of 105 Meadowlark Reader to readers in 21 US states and to the UK and Japan.

And we have plans for more!

How can you help?

  • Ask your local library to subscribe,

  • share news of your love for 105 on social media or with your local media sources,

  • submit to our next issue and share our call for entries with your writing and storytelling friends,

  • advertise, subscribe, submit resources to our directory for writers (free!)

  • show your support by wearing a 105 Meadowlark T-shirt (details below).



Sunday, April 30, 2023

Call for Entries: Kansas Landmarks Issue

 



Theme for Issue #6 (May 1 - June 30, 2023 Submission Period):

Landmarks


  1. Remember that our themes are simply prompts to spur your essays. There are so many directions you can go. Surprise us. Engage us. Tell us about places that are ultimately Kansas for you. Tell us stories about those iconic places that stand out in your community, perhaps the legends surrounding them, or the school field trips that first introduced you to them.

  2. Personal essays are welcome, but we are also looking for interviews, journalistic pieces, and more. Do you know the man who keeps the grass trimmed for tourists? Could you interview the people who restored, refurbished, or protected? There are so many true stories that need to be told.

  3. Remember, It must be a true story that happened, all or partially, in Kansas. Can your story leave the boundaries of Kansas? Sure! But you must show us that Kansas connection!


Word count: Let’s say 100 - 3,000 words, give or take. How many words does it take for you to tell your story?


Our preference is original, never-before-published pieces. 

We will consider pieces that have been published electronically or in limited-audience, small publication format (such as newsletters) if the author retains the right to publish. No simultaneous submissions, please.


105 Meadowlark Reader does not accept AI-generated stories.


Have fun: When a writer enjoys the process, that positive energy comes through to the reader. 


Publishing rights: We are asking for First North American Serial Rights. 


Payment: Payment is currently $10 per story and one contributor copy of the journal.


How to submit: File types accepted: .doc, .docx, .rtf


Please submit entries in 12-point Times New Roman with double-spaced lines.


IMPORTANT: Include your author bio at the end of your entry. Your name as printed in this bio is how we will refer to you in the rest of the journal. (Exception: Feel free to use titles and degree designations in the bio, but those titles will not be included in the byline, per Meadowlark style.)


Your bio should include:

  • 125 words or less
  • Written in 3rd person
  • A mention of your connection to Kansas (such as where you grew up, your favorite spot in the state, a favorite fact about Kansas).
  • Your current city, state of residence
  • Feel free to mention any publishing credits as space allows

    Attach a high-resolution author photo in JPG format with your entry.

    • Bonus points if your author photo includes a Kansas setting.

    Submit via Submittable - Meadowlark Press Submission Manager


    submit


    Limit: you may enter up to two (2) stories per submission period. 


    Questions? Contact us at info@meadowlark-books.com.