Category: Gretchen Cassel Eick

Wichita Library Virtual Discussion: The Hard Verge: Britain 2025, by Gretchen Eick

1/5/2021

Book Event Announcement from Gretchen Eick:

January 27th 6-7:30 PM, the Wichita Public Library will have a virtual discussion of my 2019 near-future book The Hard Verge: Britain 2025.

Gretchen Eick of District 5 is the author and will be present for the discussion. The library has copies so no one needs to purchase the book. If people register, they will receive the Zoom address 24 hours in advance. Call 688-9580 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register online: https://wichita.evanced.info/signup/eventdetails?EventId=11744

The novel is about asylum seekers in London in the post-Brexit years of an Ultra Right party's dominance of British politics. When a Syrian woman journalist disappears, her partner's search for her leads into the legal and illegal refugee community and to a small group of Members of Parliament willing to investigate what is happening in the privatized detention centers. Investigations that ensue uncover disturbing activity at Poton Downs, a top secret British weapons laboratory, and the Ultras' alarming increase of surveillance. Is she still alive? Will Ana be found? What about the tens of thousands of others seeking asylum? And their children?

New Book from D5 member, Gretchen Eick

9/22/2020

Gretchen Eick has a new book coming Oct. 30 from the University of Nevada Press. THEY MET AT WOUNDED KNEE: THE EASTMANS' STORY is a double biography and history of the era between the Civil War and World War II and that era's best known Native American, Dakota physician Charles Ohiyesa Eastman and his Anglo wife Elaine Goodale Eastman. Both were writers (11 books apiece), advocates for a humane policy toward indigenous Americans, and lobbyists. Charles is why Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls do Indian badges. He traveled the U.S. and Britain, spoke out against the Indian Bureau's policies and worked for the right to vote for Native Americans. The Eastmans' interracial marriage is a window on how racism operated in the U.S. during this time. Few physicians then had medical degrees, but Charles earned an MD yet white patients would not accept him. This history/biography has been acclaimed by Philip Deloria (Harvard's first tenured professor of Native American history and author of PLAYING INDIAN and INDIANS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES) and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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The Set Up 1984: Classified Until 2064, novel, by D5 Member Gretchen eick Now available

9/22/2020

Note from Gretchen: "My 4th novel is now in print as of late August. It is based on a true story of British (and one Greek) guys who bring a huge shipment of cannabis resin from Lebanon to Britain and are met by Customs Officials and police October 4, 1984 when they begin unloading it. THE SET UP 1984: CLASSIFIED UNTIL 2064 is based on this event. It imagines why the British government would do something so rare as to classify this case for 80 years. It is a novel of international intrigue with a cast of characters who simply want to make some money during a recession and are clearly out of their league. The book includes a discussion of sources and a study guide for book groups. It can be ordered at any library or bookstore or through Amazon or Blue Cedar Press (paperback and ebook formats). $18/$7

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Member contributions in anthology published by blue cedar press

9/20/2020

Congratulations to D5 member, Gretchen Eick, and the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this anthology: Ronda Miller (D2), Jim Potter (D6), Mark McCormick (D5), Judy Keller Hatteberg (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Michael Poage (D5), Julie Baker Brinn (D7), Mike Graves (D2), Ruth Maus (D1), Julie Stielstra (D6), Mark Scheel (D2), Miriam Iwashige (D6), Najiyah Maxfield (D6), Janet Stotts (D1), and Diane Wahto (D5).

PRESS RELEASE
September 20, 2020

The Death Project: An Anthology for These Times is now in print and available to order at your favorite bookstore and Amazon.

This book is a 205 page anthology of stories, poems, mini memoirs, and factual pieces about the various ways we lose loved ones to death and how we grieve and heal. It is a collaboration by 36 writers from across the US, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Turkey, etc. who contributed their writing to help others suffering from grief or anticipation of grief. It is intended to expand readers' thinking, feeling, and imagining about this universal, often-hidden experience brought relentlessly to the world's consciousness in 2020.

The writers are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Bah'ais, atheists, and New Age, and of different races and ethnicities. Some write of family loss including suicide, others of war or devastating illness, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Others share rituals that helped them recover.

Published by Blue Cedar Press (Wichita, KS) and edited by Dr. Gretchen Eick and Cora Poage, proceeds from the sales of The Death Project after the cost of publication and shipping will go to an assortment of international organizations fighting COVID-19. $12 paperback, $7 ebook (epub and Kindle).

For more information contact:
Gretchen Eick, 316-682-8818
eickgc@gmail.com

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River City Poetry - June 2020

7/22/2020

KAC D5 member, April Pameticky, has put together a powerful issue of River City Poetry that assembles Kansas Poets’ responses to the events of June 2020.
Members who have poems in this issue include Roy Beckemeyer, Dixie Brown, Arlice W. Davenport, H.B. Berlow, Robert L. Dean Jr., and Gretchen Eick.

Congratulations to D5 member, Gretchen Cassel Eick

5/4/2020

Gretchen Cassel Eick's latest book will be published by the University of Nevada Press fall 2020. They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story is a history and double biography acclaimed by Philip Deloria, Professor of Harvard's Native American and Indigenous Studies Department. Deloria writes "They Met at Wounded Knee brilliantly tells the story of one of the most intriguing couples in American history. Gretchen Eick surehandedly demonstrates the ways that individual lives reveal the structural dilemmas of settler colonialism, representational politics, and the painful entanglements of race, class, and gender."

Eick is the author of Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007) and four novels (Maybe Crossings, Finding Duncan, The Hard Verge: Britain, 2025, and The Set Up, 1984: Britain's Biggest Drug Bust, Classified until 2064 (forthcoming 2020).