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SUMMARY:Lingering Inland Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland\, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical authors such as Toni Morrison\, Willa Cather\, and more. The program includes readings\, live music\, merch tables and merriment! \nDetails\nDate and time: Saturday\, December 13th\, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. \nLocation: Wydown United Church\, St. Louis Missouri \nProgram\n3:00-3:30 – Book and merch sales\, mingling & other merriment \n3:30-3:40 – Welcome from Tina Casagrand Foss \n3:40-3:45 – Live music: Confluence Wind Quintet\, playing “Escape the Candy Factory” \n3:45-3:55 – Welcome and intro from Andy Oler\, editor of Lingering Inland \n3:55-4:30 – Contributor Readings \n4:40-5:00 – Book signing\, further merriment\, goodnight! \nRSVP Here\n  \nJust in: LIVE MUSIC!\n\nThe group Confluence Wind Quintet\, a brand new project affiliated with the Alliance Philharmonia Orchestra\, will perform at the Lingering Inland showcase event. This will be the quintet’s first performance!\n\nThe piece is called “Escape the Candy Factory\,” composed by Nathan Buckwalter of Fulton\, Missouri. Mr. Buckwalter is a high school senior at Fulton High School\, where he is part of the music program among several other extracurriculars and leadership positions. “Escape the Candy Factory” was entered into the 19th Annual Creating Original Music Project in 2024 (hosted by the Mizzou New Music Project) where it won 2nd place in its category. The quintet is thankful to Mr. Buckwalter for sharing his music with us to perform.\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet our readers!\n\n\n\n\n\nMarc Blanc \nMarc Blanc is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Xavier University. His writing and research focus on working-class literary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries\, especially those active in the American Midwest. A lifelong resident of the Rust Belt\, the culture and politics of postindustrial cities directly inspire his work. His essays and articles have appeared in Jacobin\, History News Network\, Belt\, College Literature\, and The New Territory.\n\n\n\nDevin Thomas O’Shea \nDevin is the author of The Veiled Prophet\, publishing with Haymarket Books in June 2026. His writing is in The Iowa Review\, The Nation\, Slate\, LA Review of Books\, Boulevard\, and elsewhere. Represented by Erik Hane\, Headwater Literary.\n\n\n\nLeslie VonHolten  \nLeslie VonHolten writes about land and culture in the prairie and Great Plains regions. She is co-editor of the anthology Kansas Matters: 21st-Century Writers on the Sunflower State with Thomas Fox Averill (University Press of Kansas). Her essays have appeared in The New Territory\, Literary Landscapes\, The Dark Mountain Project\, and on High Plains Public Radio. She lives in Lawrence with her husband Tim and their misbehaving dogs and garden.\n\n\n\nMichaella Thornton \nMichaella Thornton’s writing often explores levity\, lust\, and letting go. Her work has appeared in Brevity\, Creative Nonfiction\, Fractured Lit\, HAD\, Moon City Review\, New South\, The New Territory Magazine\, Pithead Chapel\, Reckon Review\, Southeast Review\, and trampset\, among other fine publications. In recent years\, her writing has also been nominated for Best of the Net\, a Pushcart Prize\, and Best Microfiction. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona and lives in suburban St. Louis\, Missouri with her daughter. She loves exploring what it means to be a writer born and raised in the lower Midwest. She is exceptionally grateful for the ongoing artist support of the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. You can read more of Kella’s work at https://www.michaellathornton.com/ or find her on Bluesky @kellathornton.\n\n\n\nKaren Dillon & Naomi Crummey \nKaren Dillon has been teaching American literature and first-year writing at Blackburn College since 2011. During that time\, she has published the book The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture and co-edited and co-authored with her colleague Naomi Crummey the book The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities and an essay for The New Territory Magazine. Currently\, Karen serves as director of the college’s writing center.  \nNaomi Crummey earned her PhD in Non-Fiction Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her essays have appeared in Prairie Fire\, Kudzu House\, and Grain. She has enjoyed collaborating with her colleague\, Karen Dillon\, on an essay published in The New Territory Magazine and a co-edited book\, The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities. She serves as Chair of English & Communications at Blackburn College. \n\n\n\nEvan Allen Wood  \nEvan Allen Wood is a writer living in Columbia and the publisher of Missouri Life magazine. He writes essays\, book reviews\, and short fiction about people planting trees and losing their minds.\n\n\n\nJason Stacy \nJason Stacy is a Distinguished Research Professor of History and Director of the Social Science Education Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)\, specializing in U.S. print culture and historical pedagogy. His research includes the journalism of Walt Whitman leading up to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass\, explored in his book Walt Whitman’s Multitudes (2008)\, and a cultural analysis of Edgar Lee Masters’s work in Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (2021). Stacy also serves as a Contributing Editor for The Walt Whitman Archive. Having earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago and previously taught public school history for ten years\, he has also co-authored several U.S. history textbooks\, including Fabric of a Nation (2020\, 2024) and Documenting United States History (2015)\, designed for high school and Advanced Placement courses.\n\n\n\nMarc Seals \nMarc Seals  is a professor of English at the Baraboo campus of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville\, where he teaches courses in American literature\, composition\, and film. He has published articles and book chapters on authors such as Ernest Hemingway\, Raymond Chandler\, F. Scott Fitzgerald\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, Dashiell Hammett\, and Zona Gale. A native of the Deep South\, he has grown to love the Midwest.\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://newterritorymag.com/event/lingering-inland-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Wydown United Church\, 6501 Wydown Blvd\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63105\, United States
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SUMMARY:Unbound Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the 11th annual Unbound Book Festival\, a world-class gathering of national authors in the heart of Missouri. The New Territory will be welcoming some old friends in a special panel celebrating 10 years of publishing The Autobiography of the Lower Midwest! \nMark your calendars now! \npanel description\nA Decade of Writing the Lower Midwest (New Territory 10th Anniversary)\nBig rivers\, sweeping prairies\, cities\, towns\, graveyards\, homes\, farms\, fields\, back roads and back woods: alumni from the pages of The New Territory magazine will take you on literary adventures to the Ozarks and Great Plains\, and reflect on how writing influences a sense of self in an often overlooked region. If place-writing is your interest\, you’ll locate a lot to love in this panel. \nPanelists:\nGeorge Frazier\, Riverine Dreams\nLeslie VonHolten\, Kansas Matters\nAndy Oler\, Lingering Inland\nKieron Walquist\, Our Hands Hold Violence
URL:https://newterritorymag.com/event/unbound-book-festival/
LOCATION:Orr Street Studios\, 106 Orr St\, Columbia\, MO\, 65201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Issue 19 Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Issue 19 at Boat Town Brewing in Lebanon\, Missouri! \nJoin The New Territory Magazine editors\, contributors\, and friends for an afternoon of readings and celebration! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nMeet Our Readers\nAmy De La Hunt \nAmy De La Hunt is a journalist\, writer and editor living in the St. Louis metro area\, where she covers dining and restaurants for St. Louis Magazine. She also writes about community development\, education\, and entrepreneurship for a variety of clients and publications across the U.S. She frequently joins her two adult children for adventures as they explore their new home turf in Springfield\, Missouri\, and Olathe\, Kansas. \n  \n  \n  \nDean Klinkenberg \nDean Klinkenberg explores themes of place\, identity\, ambiguity\, and the quiet tensions that linger beneath everyday lives through historical fiction\, essays\, guidebooks\, and noir-inspired fiction. He draws inspiration from travel\, especially the people and places he’s come to know along the Mississippi River\, as well as from his prior professional experiences as a Clinical Psychologist. (In 2006\, he was awarded the Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology.) He lives in St. Louis with his husband. \n  \nBrooks Blevins \nBrooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield. A native of the Arkansas Ozarks\, he holds a PhD in American History from Auburn University. Blevins is the author or editor of more than a dozen books\, including Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South and the three-volume A History of the Ozarks. His podcast\, The Old Ozarks\, returns for a second season in July 2026.
URL:https://newterritorymag.com/event/issue-19-showcase/
LOCATION:Boat Town Brewing\, 214 W Commercial St\, Lebanon\, MO\, 65536\, United States
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