Updated as of 10/21: Threa Almontaser has been selected to be the inaugural recipient of the Maya Angelou Book Award. The Kansas City Public Library, in partnership with UMKC and five other Missouri colleges, will be announcing the winner of the new Maya Angelou Book Award...

For the past five years, Writers for Readers has been a program put on by UMKC’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, in collaboration with Literacy KC. The program gives grad students real world experience teaching writing to teens and adults. This year, the program has a...