AfterWord Tavern and Shelves invites KC writers to come on out for an adult beverage or two and hanging out with fellow creatives. This...

Listen Live today at 6 PM CST as Poet T.L. Sanders and Polly Alice McCann are joined by Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas. Poet...

David Radavich is the author of two epics, AMERICA BOUND (2007) and AMERICA ABROAD (2019), as well as recent lyric collections called...

Listen Live this Sunday at 6 pm on our weekly Ketchupedia Poetry Radio show on 101.1 KONN OneKc Radio or get the app. Listen to previous...

Join in! Our Managing Editor will be talking about Tales From the Dream Zone and other publications from Flying Ketchup Press. Coming...

For the 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations, we chose authors from our publications this year that moved their readers through voice or...

Congratulations to Caroline Laganas for being the winner of our Blue Poetry Contest! Laganas is earning her MFA in Creative Writing at...

Congratulations to Paula Bonnell and Elizabeth Tomaino, our Deep Poetry Contest Winners Our First place winner of the Deep Poetry Contest...

“Fly to an arid land where you can come to the table, hear stories woven from the frayed edges of our hope." Join Kansas City’s Flying...

Tales from the Dream Zone our second short story collection releases August 24th, 2020 on Amazon and Kindle then coming to Barnes and...

“Audacity: The March to Women's Rights” is a show of art and poetry inspired by the work of local Kansas City artist, Gloria Heifner....

Rising star of the KC and St. Louis poetry scenes and beyond...You've got to meet Poet TLSanders. Wednesday, July 15th at noon you can...

Thanks to our teen interns over the past three semesters from the Northland Caps program. We rebooted our teen contest and advertised on...

Congrats to our May short story winning author of the month, Hal Hulan with their story entered into our monthly sci-fi contest, “The...

Find some of our amazing short stories by kids for kids featured this June 2020 at The Story Tree Podcast. The Story Tree brings new and...

All of this year's winners so far featured in past blogs and newsletters are listed below but we wanted to gather them here together to...

Congratulations to our April poets. Gloria Heffernan is our April winning poet of the month or her submission to our Rainy Day Poetry...

Congratulations to our March poet of the Month. Her poem "The Game Event" submitted for our tiny poetry prompt was selected by our judges...

Deborah Rosch Eifert is a poet and clinical psychologist. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the literary publication,...