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SUMMARY:The Responsibilities of Editors
DESCRIPTION:What is the role of an editor during a time of increasing censorship? This panel will focus squarely on the idea of an editor’s role/responsibility and how editors are meeting these challenges. In this free-flowing conversation between people who know the business\, panelists will share experiences\, challenges\, and opportunities for publications today. This panel will be moderated by Mark Neely\, senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. \n \nAbout the panelists\nRosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System\, which won the National Poetry Series Prize and was listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, POETRY Magazine\, New England Review\, Kenyon Review\, and Ploughshares. She lives in Evansville\, Indiana\, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review.  \nMark Neely is the author of Beasts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb\, and his third book\, Ticker\, won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for an Indiana Authors Award. His awards include a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, an Indiana Individual Artist grant\, the FIELD Poetry Prize\, and the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award for Four of a Kind. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Boulevard\, Copper Nickel\, FIELD\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, and elsewhere. He teaches courses in creative writing\, poetry writing\, literary editing\, and publishing. He is a senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.  \nNatalie Solmer was born and raised in South Bend\, Indiana\, a granddaughter of Polish and German immigrants. She worked in the field of horticulture for many years\, including 13 years as a grocery store florist\, before becoming a professor of English and creative writing. She teaches at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis and is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Indianapolis Review. Her work has been published in journals such as North American Review\, Notre Dame Review\, Pleiades\, Mom Egg Review\, and Tab Poetry Journal. Her debut book of poems\, Water Castle\, was published by Kelsay Books in 2024. You can find her poems\, visual poetry\, and visual art at www.nataliesolmer.com.  \nSantiago Valencia is a Mexican poet\, editor\, and spiritual worker. They received a BA in English literature and creative writing from Reed College\, where their poetry was recognized by the Academy of American Poets. Their work develops a poetics of ritual and gnosis to explore queer embodiment\, fractured ancestries\, faith and mysticism\, soul loss and retrieval\, dreams\, and death. They believe language is an alchemical tool for connecting with the sacred all around and within us\, and for recovering lost enchantment. A Tin House Workshop and SAFTA alum\, Santi is an editor-at-large for Nightboat Books.  
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-responsibilities-of-editors/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:The Legacies of Booth Tarkington
DESCRIPTION:Booth Tarkington is one of just four authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice\, putting him in a category with William Faulkner\, John Updike\, and Colson Whitehead. However\, Tarkington’s legacy is complicated\, despite being one of the most popular authors ever to call Indiana home. With a fresh edition of Alice Adams recently released from Belt Publishing (featuring a new introduction by Allison Lynn)\, it seems a good time to reflect on the legacy of this Hoosier author. As Robert Gottlieb posed in his 2019 New Yorker article\, was Tarkington a Great American Novelist or “America’s most distinguished hack”? Our panelists bring different perspectives on Tarkington’s legacy—architectural\, historical\, and literary—and provide additional contexts for understanding Booth Tarkington today.  \nAbout the panelists\nRay E. Boomhower is senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press\, where he edits the popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. He has worked at the IHS for more than three decades. A native of Mishawaka\, Indiana\, and a former newspaper reporter\, Boomhower has written extensively on World War II media history\, including biographies of such noted war correspondents as Scripps-Howard columnist Ernie Pyle and Time magazine reporter Robert L. Sherrod. Boomhower has also published biographies of President Benjamin Harrison\, fighter ace Alex Vraciu\, photographer John A. Bushemi\, astronaut Gus Grissom\, longform journalist and political speechwriter John Bartlow Martin\, and educator and activist May Wright Sewall. In addition to having numerous articles in Traces and the Indiana Magazine of History\, Boomhower has had his work published in the Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, the Cleveland Review of Books\, and Smithsonian.  \n Allison Lynn is the author of the novels The Exiles (Little A) and Now You See It (Touchstone). In addition to fiction\, she has written articles\, reviews\, and essays for The New York Times Book Review\, People\, Chicago Sun-Times\, Redbook\, In Style\, and elsewhere. As an editor\, she’s honed copy for companies that include Zagat Survey and Scholastic. She’s lectured and read from her work in venues across the country.  \n Allison holds an MFA from New York University and a BA from Dartmouth College. After nearly two decades in New York City\, she’s now based in Indianapolis\, where she lives with her husband\, the writer Michael Dahlie\, and their son\, Evan. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Butler University.  \n Susan Neville’s first collection of short fiction\, Invention of Flight\, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia\, and her second collection\, In the House of Blue Lights\, won the Richard Sullivan Prize from Notre Dame Press. It was named one of the best books of 1998 by the Chicago Tribune. The Town of Whispering Dolls won the Catherine Doctorow Award for Short Fiction from Fiction Collective 2 and the Indiana Authors Award for Fiction. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “haunted and haunting\,” “searing\,” and “Rust Belt stories that reject the label ‘flyover country’ with arresting strangeness.”    \nIn addition to books of fiction\, she is the author of seven works of creative nonfiction and hybrid prose\, including Fabrication\, a collection of lyric essays about Indiana factories; Into the Fire\, an eBook about women in the Ku Klux Klan\, published as a Ploughshares Solo; and Indiana Winter. Her collection of essays Sailing the Inland Sea was named the Best Book of Indiana in the nonfiction category from the Indiana Center for the Book. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and two Pushcart Prize awards. In 2021 she retired from teaching at Butler University after 38 years. Recent essays and stories have appeared in the North American Review\, Missouri Review\, Image\, Diagram\, Southwest Review\, and other journals. She was born in Indianapolis and lives there with her husband and one large dog.   \n Benjamin L. Ross is a historic preservation specialist and architectural historian with RATIO Architects\, Inc. Ben’s experience includes scholarly research\, planning\, design\, and implementation for restoration\, revitalization\, rehabilitation\, and adaptive reuse projects involving nonprofit\, public\, and private developer clients as well as public-private partnerships. A graduate of Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning\, Ben has authored numerous Historic Structure Reports and nominations to the National Register of Historic Places\, and his research on Midwestern architecture has been published in the SAH Archipedia and ARRIS\, Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-legacies-of-booth-tarkington/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:Zine Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During this workshop\, children are invited to engage in storytelling and creative expression by reading Listen to Our Future: Toy Drive\, discussing key themes and character actions\, and creating their own zine to craft a personal story. \nListen to Our Future Inc. is a youth empowerment organization dedicated to equipping young people with the tools\, confidence\, and opportunities they need to succeed. Founded by Lillian Barkes and Brandon Street\, LTOF is a BIPOC-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit inspired by social movements and rooted in the belief that youth voices must be at the center of change. By blending personal empowerment with collective effort\, we strive to create lasting social change in Indianapolis and beyond.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/zine-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:Literary Landscapes of the Midwest
DESCRIPTION:This panel will feature a conversation about Midwestern literature that travels widely through time and space—beginning with hyperlocal experience and building toward a larger mosaic of the diverse stories we tell about our region. Panelists have all contributed to The New Territory’s Literary Landscapes series\, which publishes short personal essays about the places of Midwestern literature.  \nAbout the panelists\nDawn Burns is thoroughly Midwestern\, having lived their whole life in Indiana\, Ohio\, and Michigan. Often their characters are Midwestern too\, like Evangelina from Elkhart in Evangelina Everyday (2022) and Dawn Tempers from Hanna\, Indiana\, in their genre-bending novel A Green Glow on the Horizon: Tales from the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors (forthcoming 2026).  \n  Burns’s MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame prepared them for a lifetime of writing\, creative community building\, and teaching. Burns is founder of the SwampFire Retreat for Writers and Artists and a recipient of excellence awards from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and the Ohio Arts Council. An assistant professor at Michigan State University\, Burns is committed to writing and storytelling as acts of personal and social change both in and beyond the classroom. You can find Burns online at www.dawnburns42.com.  \nOlga L. Herrera is associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul\, Minnesota.  Her research and teaching interests include literary Chicago\, Latinx literature\, and city studies. She is at work on a project examining coming-of-age stories in the work of Richard Wright\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Sandra Cisneros.   \nLeah Milne is the author of Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives\, winner of the 2021 Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award. Her co-authored book\, The Honeyfish Collective Presents Fieldnotes on Contemporary Black Poetry\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She teaches multicultural American literature at the University of Indianapolis\, and her work has appeared in MELUS\, African American Review\, Newsweek\, and Ms. Magazine.  \nAndy Oler wrote Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature (2019) and edited Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (forthcoming 2025)\, Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell\, and Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Midwestern Places (2018). He is Departments Editor for The New Territory magazine\, where he founded and edits the online series Literary Landscapes. He teaches writing and literature classes in Florida\, which is further from the Midwest than he’d like.  \nRoss K. Tangedal is associate professor of English and director/publisher of the Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. The author or editor of several books\, articles\, and chapters on American literature\, including The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave\, 2021)\, Editing the Harlem Renaissance\, edited with Joshua Murray (Clemson UP\, 2021)\, and Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell\, edited with Andy Oler and Lisa DeRose (Michigan State University Press\, 2023)\, his forthcoming books include Good Country: Ernest Hemingway and the American West (University of Nevada Press)\, edited with Douglas Sheldon\, and The Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald\, edited with Helen Turner and Philip McGowan. He has served as an associate volume editor for the Hemingway Letters Project since 2018\, and he is currently developing a multivolume edition of the Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald with Jennifer Nolan. He lives in Stevens Point\, Wisconsin\, with his wife\, CJ\, and their three kids: Adeline\, Hazel\, and Charles. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/literary-landscapes-of-the-midwest/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
CATEGORIES:Indiana Humanities Event
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SUMMARY:The Literary Social Life: A History of the Indianapolis Woman's Club
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the unique history of the Indianapolis Propylaeum and the Indianapolis Woman’s Club\, founded in 1875. The purpose of the Indianapolis Woman’s Club was\, and remains\, the exchange of ideas through presentation and discussion of papers. Learn more about how this historic building has been a space to gather and explore literature for generations of women before we kick off a day of literary conversations during Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest.  \n Rose Wernicke began her writing endeavors exploring “The Farmland Opera House: Culture\, Identity\, and the Corn Contest” in her master’s thesis. She is interested in architectural and women’s history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work includes National Register nominations\, articles for Traces magazine\, and papers for the Indianapolis Woman’s Club.  \n 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/the-literary-social-life-a-history-of-the-indianapolis-womans-club/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
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SUMMARY:Open House at the Indianapolis Propylaeum
DESCRIPTION:​Kick off the holiday season with a fun and festive open house at the Indianapolis Propylaeum. Take your friends and enjoy the Propylaeum’s beautiful historic building decorated with holiday cheer. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. \nMasks are strongly recommended. \nFor more information\, contact the Propylauem at info@thepropylaeum.org.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/open-house-at-the-indianapolis-propylaeum/
LOCATION:Indianapolis Propylaeum
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