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!

Photo by Charles Henry Ford II, Lovely County Citizen

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.

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 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.



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/

 

Rich Orloff, at right, with local playwright Sandra Ostrander

The New York Times called his comedy, Big Boys "rip-roaringly funny" and named Funny as a Crutch a Critic's Pick.

Orloff's plays have had more than 800 productions in theaters and schools on six continents -- even a staged reading in Antarctica!

The Readers' Theater, local thespian group will be at WCDH to read two of his new short plays, THAT BITCH and AFTER BREAKFAST, from his upcoming anthology for women, FEMALE PERSUASION.

August 18th
Potluck is at 6:30 P.M.
Bring a dish to share, something of your own to read, and a friend.
Readings begin around 7:00. 

Stephanie Vanderslice is working on her current novel, The Secret Son. She received an English Professor of the Year award in 2009 and has been the Director of the Great Bear Writing Project since 1999.

Philip Finch's many achievements include publishing 14 books, including 10 novels; and he has written and sold two screenplays. He was a journalist on both coasts and was on the President's Commission on Organized Crime. He was a past creative director and editor of Woodland Press in San Francisco. 

Bring a potluck dish to share, hear our resident writers share readings for 20 minutes, then read up to 4 minutes of your original work. The evenings combine conviviality, craft and critique. For more information, call the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow (479) 253-7444. 

Poetluck is a potluck dinner and literary salon bringing together established visiting writers with local poets and writers, aspiring writers, and all those interested in the creative process.

Bring a potluck dish to share, hear Ms. Moses for 20 minutes, then read up to 4 minutes of your original work. The evenings combine conviviality, craft and critique. For more information, call the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow (479) 253-7444. 

Nikki Kallio hails from Hortonville, Wisconsin and though she can grow a mean pumpkin (see http://growgiantpumpkin.blogspot.com)  she is no stranger to sophistication. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington, worked 12 years for newspapers in Wisconsin, Maine and California, and is currently revising her first novel, a post-apocalyptic tale set in an isolated Wisconsin town. Nikki loves purple (http://morepurplehouses.blogspot.com)

The evening promises its usual combination of excellent food, riveting writing and incomparable fellowship.

Thursday, April 21st at 6:30 P.M.
Bring a dish.
Potluck at 6:30 p.m.
Readings begin around 7 p.m.

"Poetluck" takes place on the third Thursday of each month, March through October, in the dining room at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. Poetluck brings together established visiting poets and writers with local poets and writers, aspiring writers, and all those interested in the creative process. Bring a dish and a receptive, interested mind. The evenings combine conviviality, craft and critique. Topical content may make this event suitable for ages 14 and above. Join us to share dinner, listen to the resident writers for 20 minutes, and then share your own work for up to 4 minutes."