Top Artist of the Evening — Mary Arneson, Country Rain
Top Writer of the Evening — Deborah Haggard, The Dust
Best Presentation of the Evening — Rachel Riutzel, Water to Red
Best Writer Artist Collaboration — Dennis Gallemore with Vashon Borich-Leach, The Awful Tower
Artist and Writer Check-in: 5:00-5:45PM at the SOTO Headquarters Tent on the Vintage Paris Coffee Shop courtyard (Vintage Paris Website).
Event begins promptly at 6PM, weather permitting. Dress code is casual. Event is free and open to the public. You are welcome to bring chairs (approximately 50 folding chairs will be set up).
Please see schedule below for order of presentation —
1 Dave Loftin w Shelby Hutton Winzenried
December Afternoon Feeding the Hay
2 Betsey Mae Graves (in absentia) w Mary Arneson
Country Rain
3 AJ Blanton w Lillian Berry
Prologue to the Three Spheres
4 Michelle Waters w Heath Copper
Dr M
5 Candice Gage w Mikki Sale
Them Hills
6 Deborah Haggard w Savannah Richardson
The Dust
7 Kristina Gilbert w James Shipley
I Am
8 Anthony Cirilla w Janelle Pattterson
No Wine for Ismenos
9 Dustin Snavely w Chris Boyd
American Spirit
10 Paul Thompson w Azalie Baumann
The Watermelon Fairy
11 Jenn Parks w Melody Courley
Toes
12 Jody Godrey w Sarah Hebert
PTSD The Father of Many Diseases
• Joshua Heston
Kewpie
– Intermission –
13 Matt Farmer w Jenny Judlin
A Modern Marvel
14 Trygve Arneson w Savannah Crawford
The Other
15 Josh Huxtable w Heath Copper
Hey There, Grandpa
16 Dave Loftin w Katie Rodick
The Gate Test
17 Rachel Riutzel w Carla Davidson
Water to Red
18 Laurie Lemke Thompson w Mary Arneson
Layers
19 T’iana Sage w Kaitlynn Robinson
Cognizance
20 Ron Davidson w Shelby Moore
The Great Disconnect
21 Dalton Quick w Freeman
Beneath the Willow
22 Kim Danzer w Steffie B
Hush
23 Dennis Gallemore w Vashon Borich-Leach
The Awful Tower
24 Grace Gage w Shannon Bacon
Evadora’s Temptation
25 Lisa Martin with Lacey Finchum
Allegiances
26 Noah Bray w Heath Copper
Collided
For questions, email josh@stateoftheozarks.net
Hollister, MO (March 1, 2018) — Online publication StateoftheOzarks.net will again host an annual “Writers Artists Night” competition at Vintage Paris Coffee Shop in downtown Hollister at 6PM, Friday, June 21. The magazine hosts this event in conjunction with Vintage Paris.
“Vintage Paris is the artistic gathering spot,” says StateoftheOzarks publisher Dale Grubaugh. “Matt and Jessica Farmer have a vision for giving back to our community. It has always been a great fit for our event.”
Editor-in-chief Joshua Heston is calling for local writers and artists to participate. “The goal is to give our community a voice. We’ve been doing this event for a number of years and I’m really pleased with its evolution.”
The event’s concept is simple. Local writers submit works to StateoftheOzarks through the month of March. In April, writers’ works are distributed to participating artists. Artists are asked to create original work “inspired in some way by the written word.”
“The collaborative aspects of the process are the most important,” shares Heston. “We get some really exciting works. Artists and writers get to work together. Get to meet one another. Get to inspire each other. There is so much hidden talent in our Ozark communities and this is a way of celebrating that.”
Gift-bag prizes will be awarded to top writer, top artist, and best of presentation by an independent panel of judges assembled by StateoftheOzarks. Many additional contestants will also vie for publication in the StateoftheOzarks.net magazine over the coming year.
“It’s part spoken-word night, part pop-up art gallery. We always get a good crowd. I’m just humbled to have a platform that gives everyday Ozarkers of all ages a voice,” says Heston.