# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Writers for Readers 2025: An Evening with Candice Millard
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Writers for Readers returns this fall with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Candice Millard and the announcement of this year’s Maya Angelou Book Award winner for poetry.

Candice Millard is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. She is the recipient of the 2017 BIO Award, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, the Guardian, National Geographic, and Time magazine. 

Proceeds benefit an ongoing partnership between the Kansas City Public Library and UMKC’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Media Arts. The project funds graduate internships for students who support the Maya Angelou Book Award and teach free, public writing classes at Library locations. 

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/roeland-park/writers-for-readers-2025-an-evening-with-candice-millard/200028959175629
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 66

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Roeland Park
- **state**: KS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: UMKC Student Union: 5100 Cherry Street, Room 401
- **lat**: 39.03443
- **long**: -94.58082
- **full address**: UMKC Student Union: 5100 Cherry Street, Room 401, 5100 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110-2406, United States, Roeland Park

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Kansas City Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/kansas-city-public-library/25070571)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** UMKC Student Union: 5100 Cherry Street, Room 401, 5100 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110-2406, United States, Roeland Park
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kansas City Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Writers for Readers 2025: An Evening with Candice Millard ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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