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The National Willa Cather Center Receives 2025 Rising Star Award
… Star Award to Executive Director Ashley Olson The National Willa Cather Center Receives 2025 Rising Star Award December 5, … Willa Cather Center for its exemplary contributions to literary and cultural engagement across the state. The …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced
… Image 2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced Cohort in Residence October 5-19 … of the third cohort of writers of the Willa Cather Writers Residency in Red Cloud, Nebraska. The cohort of five women … writers will gather October 5-19, 2025. The Willa Cather Residency aims to inspire new work by emergent writers. …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … they must contend with.” – Jane Smiley The Professor’s House and My Ántonia will share the spotlight at the … part of the NEA’s Big Read Initiative while The Professor’s House , Cather’s midlife masterpiece, turns one hundred. …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar
… Image Willa Cather received an honorary doctor of letters degree from … that propose to read across region in Cather’s works and life. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Blue … and sustainability Industrialization and the Rustbelt Literary regionalism: Cather’s relationship to earlier …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy
… Much like the character she inspired, Lyra Garber was well known for her charm and hospitality. The Garbers often … in public corridors and guest rooms. A street-level stairwell has been restored for lower-level entry into the Red …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed
… of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … before the term was coined in the 1960s. When Mabel Dodge settled in Taos and began to invite her friends and artists … If you plan to arrive early or leave late and want to book an extra night, you will book with MDLH directly and we …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… translated into over forty languages. Widely celebrated for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of … her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : “that is happiness; to be dissolved into …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… her 150th birthday on December 7, an event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion … Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in the U.S. … share more about the process and the ceremony, Littleton's journey as an artist, the power of sculpture and the arts to …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold
… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … She was both a regional writer and an international literary superstar; her novels and stories transported …
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