Writers for Readers

Bestselling author Candice Millard is the featured guest at the annual Writers for Readers fundraiser dinner on November 20.

Five poetry collections are shortlisted for the fifth annual Maya Angelou Book Award.

Nearly 500 Library patrons attended free writing classes during the 2024-2025 school year. Those classes are back in August.

The Library and UMKC offer dozens of free writing classes in 2025.

The Library announces this year's Maya Angelou Book Award winner.

"Gone Girl" author is the featured guest at the 2024 Writers for Readers fundraiser on November 21.

The Kansas City Public Library’s online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers return the week of September 26, 2022, with sessions on screenwriting and sharing personal stories. Taught by John Ingle and Thomas White – graduate students in the University of Missouri-Kansas City MFA Program in Creative Wri...