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In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...

Community experts and local teens conduct workshops on activism and empowerment. Among the speakers: Dawson Barrett, an assistant his...

Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...

Five days before Americans go to the polls, two leading writers/journalists with both local and national perspective – best-selling author and...

In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...

Author Sam Lipsyte presents the February talk in the Library’s Writers at Work series on Thursday, Febr...

Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...

Michael Knight and Allen Wier join moderator Steve Paul of The Kansas City Star for the...

In 1982-83, William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, a chronicle of traveling America’s back roads, spent 4...

Author Deb Olin Unferth discusses her new memoir about the year she spent in Central America looking for a revolution to help “foment...