Local & Regional Resources for Writers

Ketchupedia is an outreach of Flying Ketchup Press ® began in 2020 a grassroots network to connect the Kansas City & regional writers community through weekly blogs, a writer's word of the day podcast, a live poetry radio show, and two annual poet-in-residences including open mics, classes, and events to allow regional artists to explore motivation, creative goals, and advocacy. Our editorial mentorships create an exponential artist-tree effect- making room for poetry and story, as a space for personal narrative that empowers, heals, and unites diverse audiences.

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Groups for Writers:

365 days James Benger
DigiStory KC
Facebook Kansas Poetry for Personal Power
Kansas Authors Club
Kansas City Japan Festival
KC Writers Kechupedia Group
KC Writing Workshop, annual
KC Writers Workshop KC Library
JoCo Library Writers
Kansas City Writers Group-Mary-Lane Kamberg -
Latino Writers Collective
MidAmerica Romance Writers
Missouri Writers Guild
MO-Tell Missouri Story Telling
Ozarks Writers League
Poetry for Personal Power
SCBWI ks/ mo
Show Me Writers
Springfield Writers Guild
Sunflower Open Poetry Mic, Lenexa
Wednesday Screenwriters, Westport
Women Who Submit Lit
The Writers Place
Writers Place FB Group
Writers Without Borders
Writing Workshop KC

Venues for Readings/ Poetry slams and Open Mics:

Anchor Island Coffee, Troost, KC, MO

All Sorts Open Mic, 2nd Fridays by PH Coffee

Arsyn Spitfire @ Rhyme House, Oen Mic Thursdays 1000 E. 9th St.

Blendwell Cafe, Independance MO

Common Sense Reading Series Kansas City Art Institute

Interurban Art House

Jump Start Art Open Mic, 4TH Mondays, Quaker House 4405 Gillham

KC Japan Festival

KC Poetry Slam https://www.kansascitypoetryslam.org/

Louder than a Bomb- Youth Poetry Slam

Music and More

Non Profit village 313w31

One Mic Stand, Third Thursdays

Parkville Coffee

Poetic Underground Open mic

River Front Reading Series, monthly friday night reading

SpoFest First and Third Saturdays

Swordfish Toms, First Sundays poetry reading series

The Blue Room 18th & Vine Poetry

The Black Archives

The Rhino

Visual and Audio Literary Artists, second Wednesday online

The Writers Place Reading Series Third and Fourth Fridays

Unity Village, First Thursdays

Regional Books Stores:

Ad Astra- Salina, KS

AfterWord Tavern Shelves in Crossroads KC, MO

Black & Brown

Bliss Books & Wine

Flagship Books

Rainy Day Books, now Make it KC in KS

Renegade KC Coffeeshop and Bookstore

Prosperous Books-local poetry books, KC, MO (near Westport)

Steels Used Books, Used, Rare Vintage, Gladstone, MO

Spine Book Store & Cafe, St. Louis, MO

The Green Door Bookstore now called Monarch Books OP, KS

Three Wishes Book Store, KS

The Raven, St. Louis, MO

The Rabbit Hole- North KC, MO future Museum of the Children’s Book Exploratorium

Watermark Books in Wichita, KS

WiseBlood Bookstore & Records, Midtown KC

Magazines/ Media/ Journals/ Publishers

365 days FB group and Annual Publication

785 Topeka/ also a radio station, and lit magazine

ArtSpeak Radio KKFI- every Wednesday at Noon Maria Vasquez Boyd

BookMark Press UMKC

Kansas City Voices: Whispering Prairie Press-An annual publication with an eclectic mix of fiction, essays, interviews, articles, poetry, and art. We seek exceptionally written and visual creations from established and emerging voices.

New Letters UMKC

Northlandia Magazine

OneKC Radio

Spartan Press

Sprung Formal Kansas City Art Institute Lit Journal

Story Center Education and Press Woodneath MCPL Library Liberty, MO

VALA Gallery Local Future Literary Arts Journal, Penny Thyme