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will also present workshops on a variety of writing topics including
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From its inception, Antioch University has offered distinctive, progressive
education that advances humanitarian values.

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PRESS RELEASE PEN Center USA and Poet Eloise Klein Healy to Receive Antioch University's First Annual Horace Mann Awards

The award ceremony will
take place at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT) in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall at 7:15 p.

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PEN Center USA is a non-profit membership organization made up of 1,200
writers of every stripe working west of the Mississippi. She is
co-founder of Eco-Arts, an ecotourism/arts venture.

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One of two PEN
centers in the United States and the third largest in the world, PEN Center
USA was founded in 1943. It innovated the work-study concept now widespread on
college campuses.

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LucyAnn Geiselman, Ph. VIP ticket
holders will receive a guided tour of Walt Disney Concert Hall at 6:00 p.

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For a schedule of presentations at the WWA
stage at Rawhide, the latest book reviews from Roundup Magazine, or more
information on Western Writers of America, log on to http://www.
On June 30, Antioch University Los Angeles
will be launching its annual Horace Mann Awards to honor individuals and
organizations carrying forth Mann's stirring injunction, "Be ashamed to die
until you have won some victory for humanity. Currently she is a COLA Fellow, having received
a grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles .

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More than 25 WWA members who write history, novels, short stories,
screenplays, children 's books, poetry and music will be on hand to talk about
their craft and sign books."
Western Writers of America will hold activities in Mission Plaza at
Rawhide. Other presenters include Spur Award winners Win Blevins, Don
Coldsmith, Johnny D.
She is the author of five books of poetry and a chapbook, and her poetry is
widely anthologized. Her most recent collection, Passing (Red Hen Press),
was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and The Audre Lorde
Lesbian Poetry Prize from The Publishing Triangle.

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Healy 's work was
awarded the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and also has
been honored with a grant from the California Arts Council.

At the ceremony, former PEN Freedom to Write award -winner Chris Abani, PEN
Center USA president Kate Gale, and Writers at Work founder Terry Wolverton
-- much-lauded poets who have been inspired by Eloise Klein Healy -- will
read from their work .

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The organization, therefore, has two distinct yet
complementary aims: one fundamentally literary and the other having a
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" Cleary will give a presentation about the Lewis + Clark
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The National Festival of the West (http://www.

The nonprofit Western Writers of America was founded in 1953 to promote
and honor Western literature. PEN Center USA Executive Director Adam Somers will receive
the award and will recount the extraordinary stories and successes of PEN's
Freedom to Write, PEN in the Classroom , and Emerging Voices programs.A. All profits raised through ticket sales for the
Horace Mann Awards each year will help fund undergraduate and graduate
scholarships, enabling Antioch University to provide an education for
students who might not otherwise be able to pursue a degree.

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Cleary will also announce the winners of the 2005 Spur Awards at noon
Saturday , March 19. Antioch L.D.

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needs such people."

Horace Mann Award tickets are available at $150 or $300 (VIP).

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Previous winners include Larry
McMurtry, Jane Candia Coleman and Elmer Kelton., President of Antioch Southern California, says,
"In creating its programs, Antioch University always addresses the
question , 'what's important?' We feel it's important to call attention to
people and organizations in our world that are promoting the values of
tolerance, free expression, and literary excellence.

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Awards, for material published last year, are given for
works whose inspiration, image, and literary excellence best represent the
reality and spirit of the American West.

In this inaugural year , the organization award will be given to PEN Center
USA and the individual award to poet Eloise Klein Healy.S.

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Among PEN Center USA's various activities
are public literary events, a mentorship project , literary awards and
international human rights campaigns on behalf of writers who are censored
or imprisoned. Artemis In Echo Park
(Firebrand Books) was also a Lambda Book Award Finalist.m.

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"The Western is America's epic," says Rita Cleary, president of Western
Writers of America and author of novels such as "River Walk" and
"Charbonneau's Gold. For instance, Antioch
instituted a policy in the 1850s that no applicant was to be rejected on
the basis of race. Today, Antioch University has five campuses: In Yellow
Springs, Ohio (Antioch's founding location); Keene, New Hampshire;
Seattle, Washington; Santa Barbara, California; and Los Angeles (Culver
City), California .

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Boggs, James A. on June 30, with cocktails at 6:30. offers graduate degrees in education,
psychology , management, and creative writing, as well as a B.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Other WWA members will talk about issues such as Western justice,
Women of the West, American Heroes and Western films and documentaries . Crutchfield and Paul Andrew Hutton." Horace Mann was the first
president of Antioch University , founded in 1852. college to designate a woman as a
full professor. completion
program for working adults.

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"Western Writers of America is delighted to contribute to Arizona's
greatest happening , the Festival of the West," Cleary says. "We bring the
writers, historians and storytellers who relate where and how the
reenactments, competitions, art, music, furniture and fashions -- all the
things that are part of our western spirit -- took root and grew. It strives to protect the rights of writers
around the world, to stimulate interest in the written word, and to foster
a vital literary community among the diverse writers living in the western
United States.

Poet Eloise Klein Healy is founding chair of Antioch LA's pioneering MFA in
Creative Writing program, the first non-residential program of its type in
the Western United States.A.

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, Western Writers of America
joins the National Festival of the West at Rawhide, March 17-20, in
celebration of the literature of the American West.com) is a
celebration of all things Western and includes more than 200 exhibitors , plus
music, Western film celebrities, cowboy poetry, costume contests, chuck wagon
cooking competitions , action packed arena events, and a mountain man
rendezvous and sutler's row.org.