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Writing

Striking a Balance: Padma Viswanathan doesn’t wait for inspiration. She pushes through for the sake of the story.

INTERVIEW / NICHOLAS CLARO PHOTO / KAT WILSON There’s a big difference between being talked to, and talked at. I encountered the former a ...
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  • Oct 8, 2015
Writing

True Lit Festival Brings Big Names Writers to Fayetteville

Literary heavyweights Lois Lowry and Zadie Smith are coming to Northwest Arkansas this fall.  True Lit: Fayetteville’s Literary Festival ...
  • bykodyford
  • Oct 5, 2015
Writing

Gimme Fiction: The Idle Class holds fiction writing competition

We want your words – send us your favorite short story.  Please email a MS Word or TXT file to editorial (at ) idleclassmag (dot) com...
  • bykodyford
  • Sep 23, 2015
Poetry

Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offering three fellowships

The Writers’ Colony in the Victorian arts village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is offering three fellowships that include a two-week stay f...
  • bykodyford
  • May 21, 2015
Poetry

Books in Bloom marks their 10th year with a fantastic festival

WORDS & PHOTOS / KODY FORD Those who declare print dead, should have been at 10th annual Books in Bloom Literary Festival in Eureka Spri...
  • bykodyford
  • May 20, 2015
Etc.

Nightbird Books needs your help to Feed the Bird

WORDS & PHOTO / KODY FORD The obituary of the independent bookstore was written years ago by pundits and media outlets happy to push the...
  • bykodyford
  • Jul 8, 2014
Prose

JUST SHORT OF ESCAPE VELOCITY: Reflecting on the life of Charles Portis

WORDS / JAY JENNINGS ILLUSTRATION / CHAD MAUPIN Very few Arkansans go away and stay away. Sam Walton stuck around even as his retail operati...
  • bykodyford
  • Jun 26, 2014
Poetry

POEM: Portrait of a Beautiful White Mess

Portrait of a Beautiful White Mess By Jim Miller She packs the complimentary spiral ham away in her lonely plastic Tupperware container of s...
  • bykodyford
  • Apr 9, 2014
Poetry

POEM: Life Blood

LIFE BLOOD By Jim Miller Laying in the Plasma Bank I think about how nice it would be to bring a date here where there is cash prize bingo a...
  • bykodyford
  • Apr 9, 2014
Art

Walton Arts Center to exhibit costumes from opera Divide Light

Walton Arts Center will host the Divide Light: Operatic Performance Costumes of Lesley Dill exhibition Thursday, Feb. 6 through Sunday, A...
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  • Jan 26, 2014
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