Please join us for our June 13th reading featuring Effy Winter, Pat Lawson, Kathy Allen, and Carl Bettis.
Effy Winter is an American poet and scholar specializing in literary studies with a concentration on the lives and work of German writer Assia Wevill and English poet Ted Hughes. She has published her poetry in numerous publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She studies confessional poetry at The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre for Creative Writing.
Pat Lawson's fiction has appeared in many journals, including New Letters, Nimrod, The Dalhousie Review, and Big Muddy. A collection of her stories, Odd Ducks, was published by BkMk Press in 2020, and a collection of poems, The Little Book of Me (Spartan Press) was published in 2021. Odd Ducks won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award for Fiction by a Kansas Author (Center for Humanities at K.U.)
Kathy Allen is a long-time Kansas City, Kansas resident, and a Kansas City, Kansas Community College and Kansas University graduate. She has a chapbook, End of Front St., and has poems in several publications, including the anthology In the Red: In the Black (Helicon Nine Editions). Kathy is a member of the Diversifiers and Collaborators writers' groups.
Carl Bettis is a writer and software engineer in Kansas City, Missouri. His work has been published in Thorny Locust, The Same, 1-70 Review, The Pink Hydra, Chewers by Masticadores, Moonday Mag, Bright Flash Literary Review, and elsewhere.