Homecoming Reunion with Crescent Dragonwagon

A Special Poetluck event with special guest, Crescent Dragonwagon,
   founder of the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow

November 10, 2012  ~ Come early from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm for a Meet & Greet to Chat & Sip Chai
The Poetluck Feast Begins at 6:30 pm
Bring a Dish to share ~ of your Favorite Autumn Fare!
to add to the bounty including some of Crescent's famed Noveau-zarks Recipes which she will prepare in the WCDH Kitchen that day!

Inimitable published author of five cookbook-memoirs, 31 children's books, two novels and a book of poetry, Crescent lived in Eureka Springs for 33 years before moving to Vermont in 2002. She will be visiting her former home between appearances at Historic Arkansas Museum (Friday, November 5, noon) and the Arkansas Cornbread Festival (Saturday, November 5, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) in Little Rock, the Fayetteville Public Library (Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 p.m.). She’ll then lead the 2nd Annual Fearless Writing Workshop in Fayetteville at Mount Sequoyah Retreat Center on November 9th-12th.

* To benefit the writers Colony *

Crescent will give One Full Scholarship ($695 in Value ) for the Fearless Writing Workshop in a random drawing at Poetluck. A donation of $10 to WCDH gets your name in the hat. Also there will be Raffle tickets for sale for Two Nights of Specialty Lodging at Sweet Seasons Guest Cottages on Spring Street to be redeemed on or before Books in Bloom Weekend in Spring of 2012 where Crescent will also be participating ( + there may be other last minute Serendipity Surprises!)

In her first Visit to the Writers Colony since 2001, Crescent will give a celebratory half-hour reading/performance/talk, partly about WCDH's opening chapters at 7:00 which will be followed by readings from the Resident Writer's at the Colony & any Eureka Springs writers who may wish to read.

Poetluck is always an evening of fabulous food, fun, fiction, & fellowship. This time it’s also a chance to meet or catch up with Crescent, benefit the Colony, and celebrate the vibrant vision of a place where writers write, uninterrupted, uniquely enriched and nourished by the creative Eureka Springs community.

Please Do Plan to Join for this afternoon and evening of Memories + Literary & Culinary Delights!

'True Blood' author in the flesh - local article on Charlaine Harris

The Fayetteville Free Weekly publication featured a great article by Rachel Birdsell on Arkansas native Charlaine Harris, reknown author of the Sookie Stackhouse series and 'True Blood' HBO spin off, who was here in Eureka Springs on October 1st for a booksigning to benefit The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow  - read online

Thank you Charlaine Harris!

Northwest ArkaPhoto by Charles Henry Ford II, Lovely County Citizennsas residents and visitors from others states and even Canada were on hand for the two wonderful events with author Charlaine Harris on Saturday, October 1st.

Pictured at left is Charlaine (right) with 3 fans of the popular Sookie Stackhouse series and HBO's True Blood. The 'meet and greet' luncheon and book signing was held at the Crescent Hotel, followed by the evening event , a dinner at the Peal Mansion in Bentonville.

Hundreds of people are grateful to Charlaine for her visit and contribution of her time for the fundraiser day for The Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Colony Resident Stephanie Vanderslice writes of her experience

Writer Stephanie Vanderslice shares her experience at the Writers Colony in May 2011 in this recent article, "What I Learned on My Summer Vacation: A Writing Teacher at a Writing Colony" online at Fiction Writers Review.

A long time writer and a full-time creative writing teacher (and a wife and mom) Stephanie had never experienced a writer's colony residency - all that time to productively work on just what she wanted to accomplish! We gather from her report that we may see her at The Writer's Colony again one day!

Kim O'Donnel returns

Kim O’Donnel, trained chef and nationally recognized online food personality and longtime journalist, returns to WCDH in November 2011 to work on her newest book, a holiday and festivity version of the successful  Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook.

Kim is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education and The University of Pennsylvania. Formerly of The Washington Post, Kim has also written for Real Simple, Huffington Post, CivilEats.com, True/Slant and Smithsonian.com. She’s a regular contributor to Culinate, where she hosts a weekly cooking chat. Kim is the founder of Canning Across America, a collective dedicated to the revival of preserving food. Her latest project is Family Kitchen, a twice-monthly column that appears alternating Wednesdays in USA Today.

Kim was our 2009 Duncan Eat-Write fellow here at The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Ark. She is a member of the International Association for Culinary Professionals and a volunteer with the USDA’s Chefs Move to Schools initiative.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Kim presently lives in Seattle, where she’s lucky to have egrets and seals for neighbors. She is married to political junkie and journalist Russ Walker.

Kim eats meat, just not as much as she used to. That’s her story, and she’s sticking to it.  Read more about Kim O'Donnel on her website.



Meet Laura Parker Castoro

WCDH BOARD MEMBER PROFILE

Laura Parker Castoro is a multi-award winning and best-selling author with over 40 books published in the U.S. Her work has also been published in 15 languages, including German, French, Italian, Russian, Icelandic, Hungarian, Chinese and Japanese.  

Laura writes historical romances, westerns, sagas, romantic suspense, category romance, YA nonfiction, and mainstream fiction, including Love on the Line and Icing on the Cake. She is the 2005 inductee into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame.

Laura loves to travel. She’s been part of ship christening in Norway, scuba dived on the Great Barrier reef, and climbed glaciers on two continents. Her spirit for adventure may have been born when she was. (At only six weeks, she made her first trip... from Texas, where she was born, to Arkansas, where she grew up.) She’s lived in Washington D.C., Connecticut, New Jersey, with long stretches in between under the big sky of Texas. An avid traveler, she’s logged miles in England, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Australia.

Laura's most recent book, A New Lu, is a “Chick Lit Grows Up” look at midlife beginnings.  One reviewer describes A New LU as “…Feel good look at aging with will have women approaching 50 running fearlessly toward the number.”

And recent news....two of Laura's books - A New Lu and FOUND: One Marriage are now available as an e-book. In a recent message, Laura commented:

I'm particularly fond of A NEW LU because it was written almost entirely during my first two stays at the Writer's Colony. And it's dedicated to WCDH! For more on it, look here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/267668843243633/