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Local & Regional Resources for Writers

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

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

Venues for Readings/ Poetry slams and Open Mics:

Arsyn Spitfire Open Mic

Common Sense Reading Series Kansas City Art Institute

Jump Start Art 4TH MONDAY, poetry at Quaker House

KC Japan Festival

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

Louder than a Bomb- Youth Poetry Slam

Non Profit village 313w31

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 & KC Vine Poetry

The Rhino

Visual and Audio Literary Artists, second Wednesday online

The Writers Place Reading Series Third and Fourth Fridays

 

Regional Books Stores:

Ad Astra- Salina, KS

AfterWord Tavern Shelves in Crossroads KC, MO

Bliss Books

Rainy Day Books, now Make it KC

Renegade KC Coffeeshop and Bookstore

Prosperous Books-local poetry books, 39th Street District KC, MO (near Westport)

Steels Used Books, Used, Rare Vintage (Think Diagon Alley) Gladstone, MO

Spine Book Store & Cafee

The Green Door Bookstore now called Monarch Books  Overland Park, 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

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

 

NonProfits & Events for Writers Artists and Small presses:

Midwest Booksellers

CharlotteStreet Foundation

Community of Literary Magazines and Small Presses

Digital Summit Event

Guildit

Fountain Verse Poetry Festival

MAAA MidAmerica Arts Alliance

UMKC Small Business Center

https://www.facebook.com/LibertyArtsCommission

JOCO Libraries (14 branches)

JumpStartArt.org- supports local area Poets and more!

KC SourceLink

KC Women in Film and TV

KC Writers Workshop

Kansas City, KS Libraries

KCPL (10 branches)

MCPL (40 plus branches)

National Novel Writing Month 

Osage Arts Retreat

Poetry Foundation 

Summer Writers Institute: St. Louis

Woodneath Library Center

Arts

ArtsKC

Resources for Artists

Local Writers Suggest These Presses for Submissions:

BkMk Press

Clash Books

Coal City Review

Creative Writers Opportunities

Flint Hills Review 

Flying Ketchup Press

I-70 Review

JoCoWrites Blog- monthly contests on submittable 

Little Balkans Review

Main Street Rag 

McMeel 

New Letters (UMKC)

Prairie Schooner

Press 53

Rattle

MeadowLark Press

The Missouri Review

The Poeming Pigeon

The Skinny Poetry Journal:

Thimble Literary Magazine--Any poet can submit online!

Spartan Press & Gasconade Review

Sprung Formal KCAI

Submittable

Suspect Press

Thorny Locust

Classes Certifications Conferences

Community Ed through Parkhill Schools,

Community Ed NKC Schools

Communiversity UMKC Community Ed Classes

Johnson County Community College

Johnson County Library Annual Library Conference 2020

Kansas City Public Library 

KCAI Degree in Creative Writing

KCAI Community Ed Classes

MCPL Library Annual Local Authors Fair

Metropolitan Community College

MCCKC Writing Courses

MidAmerican Nazarene University

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry, Free Course

Poetry Workshop in KC-- every Tuesday 

Park University

Woodneath Library Center The Story Center- Story Certification

Writing Help KC

UMKC

Several Open Books

EDUCATORS & YOUNG WRITERS

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