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Thursday, December 2.1978
University Daily Kansan
Prof gives writers publishing start
By RICK PADDEN
Getting work published is a common problem for beginning fiction writers, as well as some of these with more accomplished skills.
Writers at the University of Kansas and in the Lawrence area must deal with the problem just like anyone else. But Chester Sullivan, an assistant professor of English, has helped the beginning author find a first book to publish by publishing a book "Volunteer Periwinkle" collection of fiction stories written by his students and friends.
SULLIVAN, WHO teaches fiction writing at KU, said Tuesday that the 112-page book would appear in hard cover and paperback sometime in December. He said it would contain a dozen short stories that "richly deserve a readership."
Events
TODAY: UNIVERSITY SENATE meets at 3:30 in woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Carlyle Smith, professor of anthropology, will speak on job opportunities in the tourist industry at he UNDERGRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION'S meeting at 3:30 in 117 Fraser Hall.
TONIGHT: ANGEL FLIGHT meets at 6:30 in room 106 of the Military Science building. An ORIENTAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE FILM is to be shown at 7 in the University's TERNATIONAL CLUB meets at 7 in the Union's Cork 2 room. The KU SCIENCE FICTION CLUB meets at 7 in the Union's Governor's Room. KU BLACK BUSINESS STUDENTS meet at 7 in the Union's International Room at 7 in the Union's Jawayk Room. The KU SAILING CLUB meets at 7:30 in the union's parlor. The SU CONTEMPORARY POETRY SERIES and the English department present Irish poet Richard Murphy at 8 in the Union's Council FICERS meet at 8 in the Union's Orad Room. NAVIGATORS meet at 8:30 in the Union's Pine Room.
TOMORROW; KU ROTC DAY will be held all day in the Union lobby. The CHANCELLOR'S OPEN MEETING will be at 1 p.m. in the Union's Forum Room. A KU WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS meet will be at 7 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium. Oklahoma State and Iowa State universities will also be competing.
"They're the best of the almost 300 fiction stories I've gone over in the last three years."
Sullivan said he thought that the contributing authors, especially those who had never published before, would be greatly encouraged by having their work published in "Periwinkles" because it would give them more confidence.
One previously unpublished writer, Barbara Luckeena, Concordia junior, said she was totally surprised when Sullivan told her he wanted to publish one of her stories.
"IT'S HARD to believe that this corporean kid is so in to print," she said.
Luecke has written a short story called "Hawkers and Jellybeans," which will be included in the book. She wrote the story of an English girl, Bollivan's action writing classes last fall.
Liaecka seems optimistic about her future in writing and said she thought she would be more productive with a degree.
Smoke damage set at $15,000
A fire last evening at Jahayah Tower Wowers caused an estimated $13,000 smoke damage to four floors of Tower B and forced the tower to evacuate to evacuate into the free air outside.
Fire officials said the fire apparently started when a deep-fat fryer was left on in the kitchen of a three-door apartment occupied by Steve Reiz and Stan Messner. Their apartment sustained an estimated $4,000 damage.
One fireman was injured in the fire and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he died.
"IVE ALWAYS liked to write and have had a few poems published, but this is the first time I’ve ever had anything to say." She has very encouraging and will help me a lot.
Twyman Snow, aerospace and engineering department secretary, is another control
Sullivan said that all the stories in the book would be copyrighted to insure that they would remain the property of their authors.
One of the book's more experienced writers is Jim Carothers, an assistant professor of English who, like Sullivan, has taught fiction writing at KU.
Carothers said that the book would help develop a "writing sense" in the community.
"IT'S IMPORTANT as an outlet," he said. "And it's hard to find outlets for any type of equipment."
Despite the fact that Sullivan has had a novel, a play and several poems and short stories published in recent years, he hasn't written any of his stories in "Volunteer Periwinkles."
"I enjoyed just planning the book," Sullivan said, "and I've had plenty to do as it's sole publisher, copy editor, publicity director and distributor."
He said the title of the book came from a story of the same name in the collection, "The Magic of the Witches."
SULLIVAN SAYS in the book's introduction, "I chose the title because of the beauty of the phrase and because these twelve stories all bloomed as volunteers, strong and tenacious and colorful like Texas periwinkles."
He said volunteers were a type of periwinkle that seeded naturally.
Nine of the book's authors are former
Sullivan students and the other three are fellow teachers.
HARD COVER copies of Volunteer Periwinkle, which are being printed in Joshua, Tex., by Eubanks Printing Co., will sell for $7.95. Paperback bills will sell for $4.95. Sullivan said he hoped to have the books sold through the Oread Bookstore and the Kansas Union Book Store, as well as retail stores in Lawrence.
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