Barbara Youree is a freelance writer who resides in Arkansas. She began writing following a teaching career in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kansas. She served as a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, for six years and as Contributing Editor of Potpourri, A Magazine of the Literary Arts for eight. She has written a series of Christian romances for Heartsong Presents and six children’s books for Beacon Hill Press. Her many magazine articles have appeared in such diverse publications as Fate, True Reports of the Strange and Unknown; Miracles Magazine; Mature Living; and Spider, the Magazine for Children. She has just finished a non-fiction book about two refugees from the civil war in Sudan: Courageous Journey. It is being published by New Horizon Press and will be out in September 2008.
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April 29, 2008 at 3:28 am
Dear Barbara,
I found you from the Manute Bol story. Both my wife and I are writers, she writes Romances.
I am helping two Lost Boys with their story and was asked by two Lost Girls to help with theirs.
I have a wordpress blog at:
http://tucsonmike.wordpress.com
Mike
May 19, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I wanted to introduce you to our conference, The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, July 18-20, 2008 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas. We will be awarding $12,000 in cash prizes to the top six article/essay submissions and $3,000 and a provisional book contract with UNT Press for the winning manuscript! Keynote speakers include: N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Bob Schacochis, National Book Award winner and Candice Millard, author of River of Doubt. Complete conference details are found at our web site: http://www.TheMayborn.unt.edu