WritingTrue Lit Festival Brings Big Names Writers to FayettevilleLiterary heavyweights Lois Lowry and Zadie Smith are coming to Northwest Arkansas this fall. True Lit: Fayetteville’s Literary Festival ...byKody FordOct 5, 2015
WritingGimme Fiction: The Idle Class holds fiction writing competitionWe want your words – send us your favorite short story. Please email a MS Word or TXT file to editorial (at ) idleclassmag (dot) com...byKody FordSep 23, 2015
PoetryWriters’ Colony at Dairy Hollow offering three fellowshipsThe Writers’ Colony in the Victorian arts village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is offering three fellowships that include a two-week stay f...byKody FordMay 21, 2015
PoetryBooks in Bloom marks their 10th year with a fantastic festivalWORDS & PHOTOS / KODY FORD Those who declare print dead, should have been at 10th annual Books in Bloom Literary Festival in Eureka Spri...byKody FordMay 20, 2015
Etc.Nightbird Books needs your help to Feed the BirdWORDS & PHOTO / KODY FORD The obituary of the independent bookstore was written years ago by pundits and media outlets happy to push the...byKody FordJul 8, 2014
ProseJUST SHORT OF ESCAPE VELOCITY: Reflecting on the life of Charles PortisWORDS / JAY JENNINGS ILLUSTRATION / CHAD MAUPIN Very few Arkansans go away and stay away. Sam Walton stuck around even as his retail operati...byKody FordJun 26, 2014
PoetryPOEM: Portrait of a Beautiful White MessPortrait of a Beautiful White Mess By Jim Miller She packs the complimentary spiral ham away in her lonely plastic Tupperware container of s...byKody FordApr 9, 2014
PoetryPOEM: Life BloodLIFE 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...byKody FordApr 9, 2014
ArtWalton Arts Center to exhibit costumes from opera Divide LightWalton Arts Center will host the Divide Light: Operatic Performance Costumes of Lesley Dill exhibition Thursday, Feb. 6 through Sunday, A...byKody FordJan 26, 2014
ArtGus Carlson release new book “Eve of the Ozarks: Girl and Goat”WORDS / TAYLOR GLADWIN Gus Carlson is Northwest Arkansas’s mastermind behind the Ozark folk comic, Eve of the Ozarks. Eve is a wide-eyed e...byKody FordJan 22, 2014