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ASBTDC Launches Arkansas Business Navigator Project to Help Entrepreneurs from Underrepresented and Underserved Communities

John Hill — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:15:56 +0000

The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC), based at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, has launched a new program to help entrepreneurs and small business owners in minority, rural, and other underserved communities across Arkansas.�� The helps small businesses address and overcome some of the systemic challenges that face entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities. ASBTDC expects to provide training and technical assistance to more than 5,000 new and existing small businesses owners during the two-year project. This support includes access to capital, business development, contracting and procurement, marketing, operations, and exporting. Led by Associate State Director Michael Singleton, the Arkansas Business Navigator team also includes Diego Morales Ibarra, project manager; Angela Gardner, Tania Martinez Chavez, and Adriana Fuentes Archila, navigator specialists; Harrison Hudson, market researcher and content specialist; and Javier Hernandez, navigator eFellow. “The goal of the Arkansas Business Navigator Project is to ensure that entrepreneurs from underrepresented and underserved communities have full access to broad services to help them start or grow their own businesses,” Singleton said. “With this program, we are democratizing entrepreneurship by giving the people the tools and resources to take control of their own futures.” Under the community navigator approach, trusted community partners act as “spokes” who will reach into specific sectors of the state’s entrepreneurial community. ASBTDC will provide centralized support and structure for all the spokes, develop and share tools for the spokes, and provide market research and specialized expertise for businesses. The spokes include the Arkansas Human Development Corporation, Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, Central Arkansas Library System, East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Phoenix Youth and Family Services, and University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service. One of the critical goals of the project is to increase the capacity to serve Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs in the state. ASBTDC has partnered with Martinez Agency, a creative and branding agency in Rogers, to create a marketing accelerator program for Spanish-speaking business owners. “Our goal by the end of the project is to develop, communicate, and create a situation where Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs have access to all the resources and tools they need to start a business,” Singleton said. About 35 Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs are participating in the accelerator program. They are learning about topics such as the importance of having a business website, how to sell products on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, and how to use digital tools to reach their customers. “We wanted to create this marketing program because we knew it will help to support the Latino community and Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs and business owners,” Morales Ibarra said. “I like to be in direct contact with small business owners about what we can do to cover their needs. We want to help entrepreneurs cover all the ground they need to be successful.” The Navigator team is working with the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and Conexión de Negocios Latinos to provide 15 workshop and training events for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs across the state. A calendar of events is . The Arkansas Business Navigator Project is also recruiting students for paid positions in its . The opportunity is open to juniors, seniors, and postgraduate students with at least a 3.0 GPA from any higher education institution within the University of Arkansas System. Bilingual and multilingual students are especially encouraged to apply . They will work with expert business consultants as they advise and develop entrepreneurs from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities including women, minority, Spanish-speaking, rural, veteran, LGBTQ+, and disabled entrepreneurs. The eFellows assess the needs of small business owners and match them with resources in the Arkansas Business Navigator network as well as assist with training programs and outreach efforts. The project is funded by a ASBTDC received through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s . Part of the American Rescue Plan initiative, the program is designed to reduce barriers that all small businesses, including those from underrepresented and underserved groups, often face in accessing critical support. ASBTDC is one of 51 organizations that will receive a combined total of $100 million in funding through the Community Navigator Pilot Program. The organizations will work with hundreds of local groups to connect America’s entrepreneurs to government resources so they can recover and thrive. Cossatot Community College in De Queen is also a member of the Community Navigator Pilot Program.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock, CALS to Host Phil “Bad Astronomer” Plait July 20

John Hill — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:37:57 +0000

Update: The Phil Plait talk that was originally scheduled for July 20 has been postponed until later in the fall. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Arkansas Space Grant Consortium and the Central Arkansas Library System will sponsor a presentation and book signing with astronomer Phil Plait Wednesday, July 20. The talk, “Phil Plait Presents Eclipse Across America,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Ron Robinson Theatre, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. This family friendly event is free and open to the public. Plait will talk about the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. This rare celestial event will be viewable across much of Arkansas. Platt will tell you everything you need to know to safely watch the literally out-of-this-world event, explain the science, and even debunk a misconception or two about eclipses. “The shadow of the Moon will fall along a narrow path across the US, including right through downtown Little Rock, which will enjoy 2 minutes and 30 seconds of totality,” said Darrell Health, NASA outreach coordinator with the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium. “During that time, the sky will grow dark, the stars and planets will come out, birds will stop singing, crickets will chirp, and you’ll be able to see the Sun’s corona, it’s gorgeous atmosphere normally far too faint to see from Earth.” After spending a decade working on Hubble Space Telescope data and promoting science from a half dozen different NASA astronomical satellites, Plait has gained a unique perspective on science and how the public understands it. He’s written books on scientific misconceptions, cosmic catastrophes, and even a collection of satirical nerd insults, each showcasing his passion for science as well as his sense of humor. His popular blog, “Bad Astronomy” – hosted at different times by Discover Magazine and Slate, and now at SYFY Wire – covers a lot of ground, from interesting scientific events here on Earth all the way out to the edge of the observable universe. He’s given talks about science (and its nemesis, anti-science) around the world. He has appeared in dozens of TV shows including writing and hosting “Crash Course Astronomy,” a 46-part introduction to astronomy on YouTube, and the Discovery Channel’s “How The Universe Works.”

��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown to Host Civilian Conservation Corps Exhibit During 2nd Friday Art Night

John Hill — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:32:40 +0000

��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown will showcase a special exhibit on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during 2nd Friday Art Night April 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas exhibit, curated by the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture, will be on display from 5-8 p.m. at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown, located at 333 President Clinton Ave. It was made possible in partnership with the with funding from the . The exhibit is a collaborative work between the Center for Arkansas History and Culture, local archeologists and scientists, historians, and educators to explore the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas by reviewing its history and visiting the sites as they exist today. The exhibit is an interactive experience based on historical materials from the center’s collections, photographs of CCC-built structures remaining in Arkansas Parks today, essays from scholars around the state written for a broad audience, as well as educational resources based on Arkansas state curriculum standards. Other locations participating in Second Friday Art Night include: Downtown Little Rock Partnership, Bella Vita Jewelry, Old State House Museum, Historic Arkansas Museum, Nexus Coffee & Creative, and Sergio Valdivia Art as well as Central Arkansas Library System through the Bookstore at Library Square and the Galleries at Library Square.

U.S. Small Business Administration Awards ASBTDC $2.5 Million Grant for Community Navigator Pilot Program

John Hill — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:23:06 +0000

The at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $2.5 million grant to engage in targeted outreach to small businesses in underserved communities. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded the competitive funding under the Community Navigator Pilot Program administered by the SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurship Education. Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced recipients Oct. 28. “The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center is pleased to be one of the programs selected to participate in SBA’s Community Navigator Pilot Program,” said Michael Singleton, associate state director of ASBTDC and principal investigator for the project. “We know that not all groups and individuals have had the resources and capital needed to start or grow their businesses. We are excited about the opportunity to utilize this program to ensure all Arkansas entrepreneurs and small business owners have the tools and resources to succeed.” The , part of the American Rescue Plan initiative, is designed to reduce barriers that all small businesses, including those from underrepresented and underserved groups, often face in accessing critical support. “The Biden-Harris Administration has prioritized building our small business ecosystems back better so that all of our entrepreneurs have a fair shot at achieving the American dream of business ownership,” said Guzman. “We need to meet businesses where they are with resources to start, grow and be resilient, and the Community Navigator Pilot Program will power a trusted network of community partners to connect America’s entrepreneurs with the SBA. The program’s Community Navigators will develop strong relationships with deeply trusted community-based organizations that will tap into one-on-one, targeted support from programs designed to help them create jobs and drive innovation.” Under the community navigator approach, trusted community partners act as “spokes.” Each spoke will reach into specific sectors of the state’s entrepreneurial community. As the “hub,” ASBTDC will provide centralized support and structure for the spokes.

Michael Singleton

Arkansas Community Navigator spokes include:

Arkansas Human Development Corporation
Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce
Central Arkansas Library System
East Arkansas Enterprise Community
Phoenix Youth and Family Services
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service

ASBTDC will also develop and share tools for the spokes and provide market research and specialized expertise for businesses. The Arkansas Community Navigator project seeks to assist businesses with access to capital, business development, contracting and procurement, marketing, operations, and exporting. This project will allow ASBTDC and partners to help small businesses address and overcome some of the systemic challenges that face entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities. “These organizations will meet nascent and existing entrepreneurs at any level, provide a clear path toward achieving their small business goals, and equip them with knowledge, tools, and access,” said Singleton. By leveraging and empowering existing community-engaged and culturally knowledgeable organizations and programs, the Navigator project will provide the platform for equipping small businesses and entrepreneurs in minority, rural, and other underserved communities across the state. “We want all Arkansas small businesses to have access to relevant, comprehensive, wrap-around services needed for persisting through the COVID-19 pandemic and aftermath,” Singleton said. Earlier SBA pandemic relief programs for small businesses included the Paycheck Protection Program and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan. Arkansas has nearly 250,000 small businesses, and less than a quarter of them received PPP funding in 2020. An analysis of the PPP and EIDL funds distributed in 2020 found that not all communities benefited equally from the programs. This disparity was underscored by the recent studies conducted by the and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. ASBTDC is one of 51 organizations that will receive a combined total of $100 million in funding through the Community Navigator Pilot Program. The organizations will work with hundreds of local groups to connect America’s entrepreneurs to government resources so they can recover and thrive. “The Arkansas Human Development Corporation has partnered with the ASBTDC on numerous endeavors since the mid 1980s, and we are honored to be a part of the Community Navigator initiative that will expand the menu of high-quality business and technical assistance services to rural communities and isolated populations,” said Clevon Young, AHDC executive director. ASBTDC expects to provide training and technical assistance to more than 5,000 new and existing small business owners during the two-year project.

��Vlog��ý Little Rock Hosts Photo Exhibit from William E. Davis Collection

John Hill — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:35:11 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is hosting an exhibit of photographs from the William Davis Collection through Aug. 13 in the Windgate Center of Art and Design.�� The exhibition, “Photographs from the William E. Davis Collection,” features 14 black and white photographs from Arkansas photographer William Davis.�� Born in 1918, Davis was a fighter pilot during World War II with the U.S. Navy. With the GI Bill, he earned a diploma in photography at the Southwest Photo-Arts Institute in Dallas. He worked as a commercial photographer for four decades and developed an interest in fine art photography in 1983.�� Davis attended several photography workshops out west and was heavily influenced by the western landscape photography style that was started by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. He brought this technical precision with him back to Arkansas.�� Vlog��ý Little Rock received a gift of 55 photographs by Davis from the artist’s estate, along with 16 works by other photographers from his collection. The collection contains only three landscape photographs. Taylor McKinney, a graduate student in the visual arts program at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, curated the exhibit. She is drawn to finding common themes among works and displaying them for others to enjoy, whether it is artwork or books at her job in the Central Arkansas Library System. “They are stunning in their technical precision and offer a harmony to the other works in the show,” McKinney said. “The photographer creates a sense of whimsy in his compositions, allowing the subject more grandeur than exists in their everyday use. A snow plow�� becomes a soaring gesture, a swirl of soapsuds an exciting mystery. Davis was able to see beyond the role of an object, and took in the physical form with an artist’s eye.” The exhibit is on display from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Focus Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design on the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock campus.

Professor Emeritus Bolton wins 2020 Booker Worthen Literacy Prize

John Hill — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:59:21 +0000

Dr. Charles Bolton, a professor emeritus of history at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize for his book, “Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860.” The Booker Worthen Literary Prize is awarded each year to the best work, fiction or nonfiction, by an author living in Arkansas. The prize was established in 1999 in the memory of William Booker Worthen, who was a member of the (CALS) Board of Trustees for 22 years, as well as part of the Worthen Bank empire. The award is funded in part by interest from an endowment for the award donated by the Worthen family. “I am proud to have won the Booker Worthen Literary Prize,” Bolton said. “I also received the prize in 1999, the first time it was offered.�� Since then, many excellent authors and books have been recognized, and the award now has a tradition of excellence that makes it even more of an honor.” Bolton’s book covers the history of the people who attempted to escape slavery and those who attempted to recapture them in the Lower Mississippi Valley, which extends from the mouth of the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico and includes parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes “laying out” nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Bolton first became interested in what he calls “fugitivism” in 2005, when he completed a study of the Underground Railroad in western Arkansas and Missouri for the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians. “In that process, I read many runaway slave advertisements and was fascinated by the bits of information they included about the personal characteristics of the escapees, why they left, and where they were going,” Bolton said. Fugitives also tried to return to eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; others fled to Mexico for the same purpose. The book provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. “Fugitives were usually captured, either by owners, professional slave catchers, or other white persons,” Bolton said. “When caught, they were almost always whipped and sometimes tortured in even more brutal ways. Fugitivism was a major cause of violence. Pursuers shot at their quarry, and the people being hunted fought back. Stealing slaves was a common crime in the South that usually involved offering to help the victim to escape and then taking him or her away to be sold elsewhere. Fugitivism also played a role in creating the sectional hostility that caused the Civil War.” A former chair of the Department of History, Bolton retired from ��Vlog��ý Little Rock in 2009 and serves on the editorial board of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. He earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University and completed a master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ottenheimer Library Sponsors NEA: Big Read Virtual Film Series

John Hill — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:10:00 +0000

��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Library, in collaboration with the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), is sponsoring a series of five films that will be free to stream each Sunday from Oct. 25 to Nov. 22. “Ottenheimer Library and CALS have a history of partnership on events such as these,” said Dan Shelton, Finance and Administration Coordinator of Ottenheimer Library at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. “This collaboration provides the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock community easy access to the activities and encourages them to explore subjects in greater detail than they might have otherwise.” The films, which are all based on the Vietnam War, are being shown as part of the 2020 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Big Read. An initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. The films are centered around “The Things They Carried,” a riveting collection of stories from author Tim O’Brien’s time in the Vietnam War, which has been selected as the 2020-21 NEA Big Read Book. “We were very excited to host Tim O’Brien and to explore his classic “The Things They Carried” throughout the library system and beyond,” said Mark Christ, CALS adult programming coordinator. “As an institution, we strive to improve literacy and encourage the exchange of ideas, social engagement, and cultural expression.” The free film schedule includes:

Arkansas Space Grant Consortium celebrates 50th anniversary of moon landing

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:56:39 +0000

The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock-based Arkansas Space Grant Consortium is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with two out-of-this-world events this summer.�� The Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, in partnership with the Central Arkansas Library System and the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society, will host a lecture with astronomer Phil Plait, best known for his website and blog, where he debunks bad science and popular misconceptions. , “Strange New Worlds: Is Earth Special?” will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 15, at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. The lecture explores the search for exoplanets that lie outside the solar system. While thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, none appear to resemble ��Earth. After earning his doctorate in astronomy at the University of Virginia, Plait worked on the Hubble Space Telescope as a NASA contractor at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He hosted the TV show “Phil Plait’s Bad Universe” on the Discovery Channel in 2010 and was the head science writer for “Bill Nye Saves the World” on Netflix. The second event is a screening of the documentary, The will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, at the Ron Robinson Theater. Bonestell was a space artist who painted memorable scenes of space flight and humans traveling to distant worlds. When Dr. Wernher von Braun, an aerospace engineer who pioneered rocket technology in Germany and the U.S., wrote articles to convince the American people of the merits of spaceflight, Bonestell was the artist who illustrated his vision. “Von Braun had the idea that you had to sell the idea of going into space to the American people,” said Darrell Heath, former president of the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society and animal lab technician at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. “He began writing articles about people going into space, and he even teamed up with Walt Disney to present a three-hour television special. Chesley Bonestell illustrated the artwork for von Braun’s articles. It struck a chord with the American people and helped sell the idea of manned spaceflight to the American public. This documentary explores how his artwork influenced the American people.” Bonestell helped design memorable architectural sites like the Chrysler Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. His artistry provided convincing backgrounds for legendary productions like “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Citizen Kane.” Both events are free and open to the public. In addition to the events, the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium is also a sponsor of the Central Arkansas Library System Summer Reading Club 2019: A Universe of Stories. The Central Arkansas Library System has purchased new telescopes for the CALS Telescope Program with a grant from the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium. CALS patrons now have access to 30 telescopes to borrow. The CALS Telescope Program began in 2016 when CAAS helped CALS procure funding for the program from the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium and then modified the original collection of 16 telescopes for public use. Since that time, hundreds of CALS patrons have participated in the program, checking out telescopes to take home and attending educational events to learn about the night sky.

CALS, ��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host scholar on race

Janea Snyder — Tue, 28 May 2019 16:40:47 +0000

Acclaimed scholar Richard T. Hughes will speak on “Understanding White Supremacy: Why We Must Hear Black Voices” on June 11 as part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Rabbi Ira E. Sanders Lecture Series, presented in partnership with ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. The lecture will begin at noon on Tuesday, June 11, at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. After the lecture, Hughes will sign copies of his book Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning. According to Hughes, six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation’s promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others—the myth of white supremacy. Hughes is a professor emeritus at both Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He has written, co-authored and edited more than a dozen books including Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875 and Christian America and the Kingdom of God. “The notion of white supremacy puzzles some people and offends others,” said Joel Anderson, chancellor emeritus. “In a time when divisions in the nation have increased, we need more than ever to have informed discussion of large issues that divide us, issues of race heading the list. Few scholars can address white supremacyt with the authority of Professor Richard Hughes. His lecture is a rare opportunity to learn from an outstanding scholar who has researched this controversial subject extensively.” The Sanders Lecture was established in 2000 to commemorate Rabbi Sanders’s 40 years of service on the Boards of Trustees of Little Rock Public Library and the Central Arkansas Library System. The lecture includes topics that support Sanders’s commitment to intellectual freedom. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Online reservations are available through the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. For more information, call 918-3000.

Arkansas Literary Festival features ��Vlog��ý Little Rock poet, Equinox launch

Janea Snyder — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:57:32 +0000

��Vlog��ý Little Rock poetry professor H.K. Hummel published her first poem when she was just 21 after winning the grand prize in a love poetry contest.��She has since published numerous poems, co-founded an online poetry journal, and written a creative writing guide now being used in college classrooms across the country. This weekend, she’s one of the featured authors at the 2019 . On Saturday, April 27, Hummel will present a writing workshop based on her book Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology beginning at 11:30 a.m. at The Bookstore at Library Square, 120 River Market Ave., in downtown Little Rock. The text is an introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature in which Hummel and co-author Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short-form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. The book covers prose poetry, flash fiction, micro memoir, lyric essay, cross-genre/hybrid writing, and more. Hummel uses many of the writing prompts in her text to engage her students. Her class recently experimented with flash fiction, a form of writing that can be as short as a page, or a paragraph, or even a sentence. “They love it because it’s fun, and it’s unintimidating,” she said. “It’s easier to say ‘I’m going to write a paragraph’ than ‘I’m going to write 20 pages. The trick then is to make every word in that paragraph count.’” In addition to teaching creative writing at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, Hummel, along with Professor Jeffrey Condran, are the faculty advisors for Equinox, a journal of contemporary literature at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock. The journal is celebrating its new issue with a launch party on the last day of the literary festival, on Sunday, April 28, from 2-4 p.m. at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave. There will be live music, a student reading, and an awards ceremony. Hummel has a full-length poetry collection, Lessons in Breathing Underwater, which will be released in November by Sundress Publications. She is currently working on a new collection of poems inspired, in part, by a research trip she took last summer along 1,500 miles of the U.S. Civil Rights trail, thanks to a ��Vlog��ý Little Rock faculty research grant. Hummel earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Davis; a Master of Arts in English literature from Eastern Washington University; and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (poetry) from University of Southern Maine. She co-founded the online poetry journal , which is now housed at Washington State University, and continues to serve on its advisory board. She received a fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and an Emerging Writer-in-Residence fellowship from the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, and her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Department of English and the Cooper Honors Program, in partnership with the , are silver-level sponsors of the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. The 2019 can be found online. Events related to ��Vlog��ý Little Rock include the following: Friday, April 26 – Author! Author! event honoring this year’s authors, 7-9 p.m., Main Library, 100 S. Rock St. Books will be available for purchase. Tickets are $25 in advance at or $40 at the door and include hors d’oeuvres and libations. Saturday, April 27 – Reading by poet Jericho Brown, 11:30 a.m., , 100 River Market Ave. Dr. Laura Barrio-Villar, associate professor in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock English department, will moderate. Saturday, April 27 – Discussion of “Short-Form Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology” by H.K. Hummel, 11:30 a.m., 120 River Market Ave. Sunday, April 28 – 2019 Equinox launch, student readings, and music by the band Dazz and Brie, 2-4 p.m., ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown, 333 President Clinton Ave. Flash fiction flash of insight, or flash of a sight�� For just a moment, you see the world. Imaging it’s nighttime and a lightening bolt light up everythin.g Flash fiction a like aflas of insight or a momentary vision. ��Vlog��ý Little Rock poetry professor H.K. Hummel compares creative writing flashes to harnessing a lightning bolt. She is the author of “Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology” and will be featured at the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival.��Photo by Benjamin Krain

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ASBTDC Launches Arkansas Business Navigator Project to Help Entrepreneurs from Underrepresented and Underserved Communities

����Vlog��ý Little Rock, CALS to Host Phil “Bad Astronomer” Plait July 20

����Vlog��ý Little Rock Downtown to Host Civilian Conservation Corps Exhibit During 2nd Friday Art Night