2015

AMERICA’S FIRST LADIES WHO WROTE ABOUT & DABBLED IN THE OCCULT

Patricia Krider

First Ladies Library Executive Director Patricia Krider will profile Mary Todd Lincoln (1861-1865), Florence Mabel Harding (1921-1923) and Nancy Reagan (1981-1989) who wrote about, or dabbled in, the occult. “We will also explore media reaction to their interests”. Krider said.

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Virgin Islands. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

2014

SWEET THINGS OF LIFE: LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Cosponsored by: South Dakota Humanities Council and South Dakota Center for the Book

Dr. Michelle McClellan

Angie Chuang

Laura Ingalls Wilder scholar Michelle McClellan, joined by professor Angie Chuang, will utilize the author’s work to speak on how family memories influence our sense of home. McClellan, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, is completing a nonfiction book on “Little House” sites across America that were used as a fictional base for literary themes and characters. Chuang’s book is: “The Four Words for Home.”

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required. For more details, See News & Updates Page

50-state Project honors women writers from: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

The “Girl” behind the American Girl books!

Valerie Tripp

Valerie Tripp, multi award winning, acclaimed author of more than 31 books, including the mega-selling American Girl series featuring historical fiction characters Felicity, Elizabeth, Josephina, Samantha, Nellie, Kit, Ruthie, Emily and Molly, will discuss her work at noon Wed Oct 8 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club.

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

AWWNM’s GONE HOLLYWOOD!
WOMEN SCREENWRITERS: LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION!

Jane Barbara

Maureen Stack Sappey

Screenwriters Jane Barbara, Monica Lee Bellais, Sabrina McCormick and Maureen Stack Sappey will participate in a noon panel Wed Sept. 17 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club to discuss their craft and their work in progress.

Monica Lee Bellais

Sabrina McCormick

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

“ALL THE CHANCES OF LIFE”:Katherine Anne Porter

Darlene Unrue Christine Grogan Jerry Findley

President of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, Dr. Christine Grogan, joins four members of the KAPS Executive Committee at noon, Thursday May 22 to reveal the latest updates on the Texas born Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, poet and novelist who lived in D.C. periodically from 1944-1980.

Christine Hait

Beth Alvarez

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

LAISSEZ LES BON POETRY ROLER!
AWWNM Celebrates National Poetry Month!

Ava Leavell Haymon, current Louisiana Poet Laureate, and Julie Kane, immediate past Poet Laureate, will read from and discuss their work at noon Wed April 16 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club. Haymon’s work “combines the sensory and spiritual worlds in wild verbal fireworks.” Kane’s work uses “wickedly clever” humor. The duet is co-sponsored with the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana.

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50-state Project honors women writers from: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

“I CALL WITH ALL MY VOICES”

Marilyn Nelson Lavonda Kay Broadnax

Award-winning writers Marilyn Nelson and Lavonda Kay Broadnax will share the AWWNM stage with separate individual presentations noon Friday March 28, 2014. Nelson, poet laureate emeritus of Connecticut, will read from her work, including “The House on Moscow Street” which includes the phrase in the headline above. Nelson is a 3-time finalist for the National Book Award, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Lavonda Kay Broadnax, an employee of the Library of Congress and winner of the 2013 Zora Neale Hurston Award, will discuss her project “Selected Work by Civil War Era African American Women”.

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Akansas. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

AWWNM COTTONS TO EXCITING SECOND YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
FIRST LADIES & the MEDIA

Patricia Krider Anita McBride

In celebration of AWWNM’s second year anniversary; at noon Wednesday February 12, distinguished experts will discuss how America’s Presidential spouses dealt with the media. Patricia Krider, executive director of First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio; and Anita McBride, Chief of Staff for former First Lady Laura Bush, will speak in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20045. Traditionally, in American culture, second anniversaries are marked by cotton “gifts”—thus the pun in the above headline.

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50-state Project honors women writers from: Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

GHOSTWRITERS: BEHIND THE SCENES

Nancy Dorman Hickson Amanda Rooker Joyce Winslow Charlotte Reather

Nancy Dorman Hickson and Amanda Rooker, who specialize in assisting aspiring authors; Joyce Winslow who helps presenters shape their writing, and Charlotte Reather who likes to add a comedic touch to her scriptwriting, will reveal the gamet of ghostwriters’ eclectic projects at a noon Wednesday January 15, 2014 panel at the National Press Club. Speech ghostwriter Sarah Gray will also participate.

The panel program will be noon-1 p.m. Wed Jan 15, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more details, See News & Updates Page

50-state Project honors women writers from: Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page