2024 CCCC Annual Convention

April 5, 2024–

Four women faculty from a first-year writing program share narratives of “saying no” (inspired by The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work) and the new pathways that opened up for their equitable campus engagement. After these presentations, we will do a writing exercise with our audience, as we discuss not only possible responses but also stronger questions for our 2024 moment.

Presented by: Terri Taylor, Kate Bloomquist, Megan Allen, and Kasey Perkins Grady

Have you been too kind via email? Especially when a simple “no thanks.” (period—no exclamation mark) would do? This talk explores who is volunteered for university service and why it is so difficult to say a “no” effectively. Given gender disparities in service, the presenter uses real emails to facilitate discussion on communication; the session maps out the anatomy of ineffective and effective “no” responses to what Laurie Weingart identifies as “non-promotable tasks.” Further, what tools can faculty members use to both keep track of service work and determine what is worthwhile?

Missouri Humanities St. Louis Veterans Writing Workshop

A workshop facilitated by Kasey Perkins centered on what a unique metaphor is, how to get inspired, and how you can work one into a piece of creative non-fiction food writing.

Perkins brought excerpts from authors like Flannery O’Connor and Sam Andersen, along with reading from her own book, When The Dead Get Mail.

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UMSL Graduate MFA Reading

with special appearances by Kasey Perkins, author of When the Dead Get Mail and Ron Austin, author of Avery Colt is Snake, a Thief, a Liar. Perkins read excerpts from the upcoming book, along with a sampling of new poems.

Celebrating the master’s theses of Marie Kenney, Brian Blair, and Rita Rouvalis Chapman. Audio available on the University of Missouri St. Louis website, with more readings information found here.

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St. Louis Writers’ Workshop

St. Louis Writer’s Workshop Presents: Kasey Perkins
July 26th, 2018
The Book House, Maplewood MO

Celebrate with us on Thursday, July 26, 6-8PM for a reading by our summer teen fiction writers at The Book House in Maplewood. We’ll be cheering on our students as we listen to them read from their original works. In addition, local poet, Kasey Perkins, will join us and read from her wonderful, forthcoming chapbook, WHEN THE DEAD GET MAIL (Finishing Line, January 2019). As always, this event is free and open to the public and we would love to see you there!

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