National Willa Cather Center News
Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.
Annotations from the Archives: The Library
Creating a culture of reading on the frontier wasn't easy! With days-long travel between towns, getting supplies of any kind—food, lumber, clothing, medicine—could be difficult and costly; it only stands to reason that reading materials like books and magazines might be considered a luxury.
2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
On Friday, June 2, we awarded and celebrated our 2023 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa Cather Center scholarships. Six students presented their winning essays at the 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, followed by a Q&A session with conference participants.
Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers
Annotations from the Archive: Cather's Address Book
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
Though Willa Cather is well-known around the world as a novelist, her first published work was a collection of poems, April Twilights. For both researchers and Cather fans, our archival collections provide amazing insights into Cather’s early work.