writing

Chelan David's “Beautiful States of Mind: A Father and Daughters’ Pilgrimage to all 50 States” is both a travel guide and a memoir of David's bonding experiences with his girls. Looming in the pages is David's childhood kidnapping by his own father.

Writers originally from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus will hold an event Friday at Union Station in Kansas City to discuss how the war in Ukraine shaped their work.

Kansas City is home to novelists and poets, bookstores and publishers, libraries and writer's groups, creating a rich literary landscape. And with the American Association of Writers and Writing Programs — the country's largest literary convention — in town this week, it's a perfect time to see what the region has to offer.

Kansas State University professor Traci Brimhall starts as the 8th poet laureate of Kansas on January 1, 2023.

Andrew Michael Johnson’s book of poetry and prose, “The Thread,” explores cosmic events and everyday moments.

Alex Tretbar spent five years in prison for his part in a drug-related shooting. His award-winning poetry takes inspiration from incarceration, addiction and The Velvet Underground.

Kansas City Actors Theatre is producing the two-person play about Calvin Trillin's late wife. The play was adapted from his memoir of the same name.

Vintage typewriters were once banished to basements and attics, but they’ve been making a comeback. For some collectors and enthusiasts, the machines are the ultimate remedy to the distractions of the digital age.

Kansas City author David Cantwell, who just published a new version of a book he wrote years ago, says Merle Haggard was 'constantly singing about the things that we're still arguing about today.'

Over the course of 2020, the 614 billionaires in America grew their net wealth by $913 billion.

Realizing they wouldn't be able to help him celebrate his 94th birthday, Willie Ricken's family decided to send their love via the U.S. Postal Service.

KCUR listeners get busy, creative and publicly minded under stay-at-home orders.