Springfield Regional Arts Council will feature Marilyn Quigley as the presenter at its May 8 Creamery Writers’ Workshop, 7:00pm to 8:30pm in the Creamery Arts Center. For more than 20 years, Quigley has served as director of Freshman Composition at Evangel University where she teaches all levels of writing from basic grammar to advanced exposition including creative writing in which she emphasizes fiction, poetry and drama. read more...

Author/journalist/editor Reta Stewart Allen will present how-to information on writing and self-publishing at the Creamery Writers Workshop on Thursday, April 10, at 411 North Sherman Parkway across from Hammons Field. The meeting is from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm and is free to all writers, regardless of age or level of expertise. read more...

This year, the Heartland Writers Guild has condensed their three-day conference into one jam-packed day of learning and networking. On Saturday, June 7 writers, editors, and agents are invited to attend an event at the University Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. read more...

This Thursday, Feb. 28, from 7 to 8:30pm, Vera Jane Goodin-Schultz will speak at the Creamery Writers’ Workshop on the subject of characterization and how to people your stories and make the characters “visible” to the reader. Goodin-Schultz is a writer with over 500 published articleds and chapbooks. read more...

Springfield Central High School Junior, Vernon Meidlinger-Chin, won the Southwest Regional High School Poetry Out Loud Competition held Tuesday, February 19 at The Creamery Arts Center.

Eight students represented the region and each performed three poems from memory for five local judges. read more...

Springfield Central High School Junior, Vernon Meidlinger-Chin, won the Southwest Regional High School Poetry Out Loud Competition held Tuesday, February 19 at The Creamery Arts Center.

Eight students represented the region and each performed three poems from memory for five local judges. read more...

The Springfield Regional Arts Council will present the 2nd annual Southwest Regional Recitation Competition, Poetry Out Loud, Tuesday, February 19, 6:30 p.m. at The Creamery Arts Center.

Poetry Out Loud competitions are held on three levels- regional, state and national. read more...

Well Fed Head Books will kick off the 2008 Poetry Slam season on Thursday, January 31st at 7:00 PM, with our very first Women of the Ozarks Poetry Slam. The slam portion of the evening is only open to women poets, but we need all of you to come out and cheer them on. read more...

LAMAR, Mo. — A “Night with the Cowboy Poets” is planned for 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Thiebaud Auditorium.

The event will feature a performance by Robert Beene and Trey All, who were recently featured at Silver Dollar City in Branson, as well as western photographer Angela Beene, who will display and sell her photographs. read more...

The Creamery Writers Workshop (sponsored by the Springfield Regional Arts Council) will resume this Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the

Creamery Arts Center and will feature readings by those in attendance from works currently in progress, followed by “gentle feedback” from the group. read more...