Does any one have a copy of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Awards program for 1995. It was the year of R. A. Lafferty. We would like to digitize the programs and we’re missing that year. If you do please comment and I’ll send you our address.
Thanks.
GOOD WORDS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A Poetry Evening to Benefit Skyline Food Pantry
November 2, 2010 7 pm
Village Methodist Church fellowship hall
2501 W. Britton Road, Oklahoma City 73120
Refreshments and a table for you to sell books will be furnished. Price of Admission, for poets and guests: a donation of nonperishable items for the food boxes at the door. Readers, please limit your selections to one or two poems on the subject of food, hunger, recipes, restaurants, feasts, and related topics. We will have a signup sheet at the door. Music, Poems, and the chance to help a worthy organization. This is a family-friendly event. Questions? Contact sandy soli at sandrasoli at sbcglobal.net.
Marilyn Miller, reference librarian at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries sends this review our way:
Is there Romance in Sulphur, Oklahoma? In Oklahoman Carolyn Brown’s TO HOPE, Professional Bull Rider Jodie Cahill is sidelined with a broken wrist embarrassingly acquired from a fall on ice and is spending the rodeo season as a judge instead of a PBR.
Riding along on the gruesome drives from one rodeo venue to another is wealthy writer James Moses Crowe who has been in love with Jodie from a distance since kindergarten. He hopes the prolonged exposure to her will cool his ardor, but of course he only becomes more entranced. Trials, with food, he likes healthy food, for her the greasier the better; family, his is wealthy Texas, hers is down home Okies; and jobs, he is a writer, she is comfortable with dirt and manure, keep the story moving along. This cozy romance is a pleasant read for a hot summer day.
Her website has a list of all her titles, and in the correct order (love that).
Here’s a book review for Field of Honor by D. L. Birchfield. Thanks Vehoae for the stimulating book review, I know our Okie Readers will appreciate hearing about this novel. 
Looking for more from Birchfield, try this one on, How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World.
His Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test, is a real gem. It’s a collection of essays that will really get you thinking. Birchfield isn’t one to let you sit on the sidelines.
Steve’s Sundry, Books & Magazines…A Tulsa Tradition
2612 S. Harvard
Tulsa, OK 74114
Saturday, June 26- 12:00-2:00
Tulsa Night Writers on the Porch
The Tulsa Night Writers is an organization of writers and soon-to-be writers, many of whom have become published after joining the group. They write in every genre, from romance to science fiction to poetry to stage plays.
The organization was started fifty-five years ago by two couples whose wives had been in a daytime writing group, but wanted men to be able to attend as well. Several of the current 105 members are long-time members. Peggy Fielding joined thirty-five years ago at the insistence of her mother and soon became a driving force behind the success of the writing group. Soon after she joined, she asked Charles (Chuck) Sasser to speak to the club. She still remembers the title of his first talk: “The Lonely Circle of Light.”
Fielding and Sasser remain an active part of the Tulsa Night Writers and will be part of a large group who will be signing books on the porch at Steve’s. Additional authors planning on attending are: M. Carolyn Steele, Carol Lavelle Snow, Jackie King, Jim Laughter, Malcolm Richard, Mike Koch, Bob Avey, Michael Horton, Romney Nesbitt, Myra Johnson, Norma Boone, Vicke McDonough, Radine Trees Nehring, and Mary Sue Lopez.
Come out and support our local authors and let’s pray for cool temperatures!
Saturday, July 3 1:00-3:00
Grocery Gardening: Planting, Preparing and Preserving Fresh Food
by Jean Ann Van Krevelen
Cool Springs Press $19.95 Softback
Grocery Gardening includes garden planning, planting, preparing, preserving and nutritional information for each of the more than twenty selected edibles. In addition to tips on when to harvest home grown vegetables, the authors offer advice on how to select the freshest produce at the local market, and select complementary ingredients to combine with your home-grown edibles. Jean Ann Van Krevelen, together with her team of food and gardening experts and their community of readers, encourage gardeners and non-gardeners alike to plan meals based on what is in season. Whether you buy local or grow your own, the recipes will delight your family with seasonal freshness. Also included is a chapter on preserving your harvest, with tips for freezing, drying, canning and preserving.
Be sure to stop in and chat with Jean Ann, originally from Enid. She’s coming back home from the west coast to visit. Help us extend a warm “Okie” welcome!
Thanks for supporting our local merchants! We all benefit when we shop our “mom and pop’ stores. Keep reading! ~Joanie
The Oklahoma Center for the Book wants to pass along this news item from the Mayborn folks:
George Getschow, writer in residence of the nationally renowned Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine, Texas, is inviting nonfiction writers and anyone interested in narrative craft to the sixth annual conference, July 23-25, at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, five minutes from the DFW Airport.
The 2010 conference will explore a variety of storytelling genres. Speakers include some of America’s top narrative practitioners: Mary Karr, author of two New York Times bestselling memoirs; Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down; Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies and Barbarians at the Gate; David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z; Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, and Hellhound on his Trail; Gary Smith, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, whom Slate calls “the best magazine writer in America.” Other nationally acclaimed speakers include Amanda Bennett, Kevin Fedarko, Paula Butturini, Madalit del Barco, Hannah Allam and many more.
The Mayborn Conference has grown into the most respected and acclaimed narrative nonfiction conference in the country. Hampton Sides, editor-at-large of Outside Magazine and author of the current bestseller, Hellhound On His Trail, says: “It’s no accident that the Mayborn Conference has very quickly risen to preeminence among the nation’s literary conferences. Stacked with talent, smartly choreographed, and well-attended by enthusiastic confreres whose passion for non-fiction is palpable, the Mayborn offers a distinctive format no other conference can match.”
Gay Talese, the co-founder of New Journalism and a member of the Mayborns Advisory Board, says at the conference “I came to know an extraordinary gathering of writers, journalists, educators, students and readers devoted to the art and craft of literary nonfiction, a subject that has been my passion and my mission for a half century. The Mayborn…sponsors and promotes the discussion and application of nonfiction only on the highest standards.”
Here’s Columbia Journalism Review’s story of last year’s conference: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/i_heard_it_while_in_grapevine.php
The conference includes a book manuscript and essay writing contest. Deadline for submissions is June 15. In the essay competition, your essay or article must be no more than 20 pages double spaced. In the book writing competition, you submit one complete chapter and a chapter-by-chapter narrative synopsis (no more than five pages) of the rest of the book. If your essay is selected by our panel of judges, you will enter one of five, 10 person workshops and spend all day Friday, July 23, getting your essay or article critiqued and evaluated by the workshop and the workshop leaders.
Our workshop leaders are all award-winning writers and authors. The top six articles and essays win $12,000 in cash prizes. The 10 best articles or essays, including the six cash award winners, will be published in a popular literary journal called Ten Spurs. To read some of the essays published in Ten Spurs most recent issue, go to www.themayborn.com.
If your manuscript is selected by our panel of judges, you would enter one of two, 10-person workshops, and spend all day Friday, July 23, getting your ms critiqued and evaluated by the workshop and the workshop leaders, both of whom are published authors. You will also receive a written critique from the workshop leader. The first-place manuscript winner receives a $3,000 cash prize.
Mayborn book award winners continue to win major book publishing contracts. Donna Johnson’s memoir about growing up evangelical, Holy Ghost Girl: Scenes from the Apocalypse, will be published by Gotham Books. And Susannah Charleson’s Scent of the Missing, released by Houghton Mifflin a few weeks ago, is destined to become a best-seller.
Conference fees are $295 for the general public. Educator fees are $270. Student fees are $225. The fees include fine dining. Conference seating is limited. To register, visit the conference site. For more information, contact George Getschow at getschow@unt.edu or by phone: 972-746-1633, or Project Coordinator Jo Ann Ballantine, joann.ballantine@unt.edu, 940-565-4778, cell 940-368-1998.
I’ve been down sizing my book acquisitions and would like to offer up Book Lust by Nancy Pearl to the first person who comments and tells me who she is. The book is also autographed by Nancy.
I had a great time at the book award dinner. As my previous boss would say, ” A good time was had by all and delicious refreshments were served.” The Judges also served up some very good titles as winners this year. Good to see all the Friends of the Center for the Book folks, authors and friends of books. Connie Armstrong did an outstanding job on her first book award dinner. [Applause permitted here]
Winners were:
Children’s Book– Chicken Dance by Tammi Sauer . Sterling Publishing Co., New York, NY
Young Adult Book–Night Fires by George Edward Stanley. Aladdin, New York, NY
Fiction — Confessions of a Former Rock Queen by Kirk Bjornsgaard. 4Rv Publishing, Edmond, OK
Design–Willard Stone. Design by Carol Haralson. University of Tulsa/Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Illustration–Where to Sleep. Illustrated by Kandy Radzinski. Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI.
Poetry–Work Is Love Made Visible: Poems and Family Photographs by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish. West End Press, Albuquerque, NM.
Non-Fiction–Thomas Gilcrease by Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Eric Singleton, Anne Morand, Gary Moore and April Miller. Gilcrease Museum/University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.
Ralph Ellison Award–Stan Hoig
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award–David Fitzgerald
Distinguished Service Award–Teresa Miller
Much Thanks to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book for promoting reading and authors in Oklahoma and for this special evening to honor the best of the best.
Hope to see all the finalists, Center for the Book folks and everyone else coming to find out the new OK Book Award winners, and have a fabulous dinner among friends and colleagues. I’ll be working the door. See you soon.
The awards ceremony will be held April 17, 2010, at the Edward L. Gaylord—T. Boone Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Download the Book Awards event brochure to make a reservation to attend the awards banquet.
This is always a huge amount of fun, you can meet your favorite author, get a book signed, have good food, and best of all you’ll get to see if your favorite author is taking home the gold. 
This is a good way to support your Oklahoma Center for the Book, and all the good things they do to promote books and reading, and have a lovely evening with authors and friends at the same time.
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