Kansas Book Festival grants support rural, small-town libraries
"It’s important for small communities to have these basic needs, and literature is a basic need.“
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"It’s important for small communities to have these basic needs, and literature is a basic need.“
The Kansas Book Festival was able to provide over $6,000 to six Kansas libraries this year
Challenged from the beginning, Paper Plains Literary Festival Inc. has dissolved and transferred more than $11,700 in remaining assets to the Kansas Book Festival, according to a news release.
Topeka’s Stormont Vail Health should reconsider putting its name on an events center that regularly opens its doors to gun shows.
This year's Kansas Book Festival will move from its usual venue at the Kansas Statehouse to Mabee Library at Washburn University. The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will feature free presentations by 40 authors, outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food vendors and exhibitor tents with publishers from around Kansas. The event will kick off 4 p.m. Sept. 17 with a presentation by Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award winner Rebek Taussig who will speak about her memoir "Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body." Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of "Wor...