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Marlis Manley Broadhead

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Historical novel Trophy Girl on shelf at Gallery Bookshop Mendocino, CA

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SANDY'S SEARCH FOR HER REAL FATHER lands her in the midst o

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SANDY'S SEARCH FOR HER REAL FATHER lands her in the midst of the Jalopy racing world where she uncovers old and new family secrets. The chase is on as she follows a racing champion along the dirt-track circuit on his way to the first Grand National race for jalopies--with her foster aunt hot on her trail. Heating up the mid-west summer are old rivalries, risky adventures, and unexpected romance. This historic novel, centered around the first national race for stock cars at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City in July 1957, is a delightful coming together of articles in old scrapbooks, tales from drivers and fans from the past , and the author’s memories of the first Grand National Champion, who later became her step-father.



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Is That Your Mother Calling?

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BASED ON RESEARCH done at Iowa State University, a compilation of advice received by people born between 1926 an

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BASED ON RESEARCH done at Iowa State University, a compilation of advice received by people born between 1926 and 1984--noting who gave it to them when, what they thought of it then, and what they think of it now. The stories range from profound to hilarious--and the admonition to wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident is universal. 


"If the Marriage is on the rocks, the are in the bed."


"Don't be in such a hurry. If she's the right woman, she is worth waiting for. If not, you won't have to live with her so long."


"If you don't have a good head, you'd better have good legs."





The Mendocino Poems

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I Never Had a Farm in Africa


I never had a farm in Africa,

but I have peeled an avocado

with a spoon in Mendocino 

where every year the whales 

pass by, south to spawn, and later

bring their calves north 

a languid parade of misty

vapor blows, big and small

their backs g

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I Never Had a Farm in Africa


I never had a farm in Africa,

but I have peeled an avocado

with a spoon in Mendocino 

where every year the whales 

pass by, south to spawn, and later

bring their calves north 

a languid parade of misty

vapor blows, big and small

their backs glistening in the sun

or shadowy boulders in the fog


watching from the headlands

it’s possible to believe

they know we are there 

longing to reach out, our fingers 

gliding along their quivering flesh

sensing our own watery beginnings

the way love can delight and

reveal us to ourselves

even when passing through 

to warmer or cooler climes


while perhaps you peel an avocado

with a spoon in Mendocino

and dream of a farm in Africa 

where you might have found 

your truest self

once upon a time




First publication ~ fiction/fantasy/nonfiction/memoir

Handmade cover of Author's first book, The World and I
first page of author's first book, age 10

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND HONORS


IS THAT YOUR MOTHER CALLING? Advice that Echoes Down Through the Ages


TROPHY GIRL published by BLACK ROSE WRITING Sept. 30, 2021


SHORT FICTION

Paper Boats, Chapter, Café Lit Zine, 10/28/21

"The Man on the Floating Bridge," Mikrokosmos, Vol. 55 (2009), 72-9-80 

"The Seven-foot, One-eyed Woman Searches for Love." Amazon Kindle Vella, 2023; West magazine, Issue 7 (1992),1-15

"In Vitro." Primavera, Vol. 11/12 (1988), 78-93.

"Review of Trying to Surprise God," by Peter Meinke, in Poet and Critic, 15, 2 (Winter, 1984), 59-63.

"Please Destroy Without Opening." Amelia (Summer 1986). Willie Lee Martin Award story.

"Between Planes." Crosscurrents, 3, 1 (December, 1983), 15-30.

"The Children Are Fine." Kansas Quarterly, 13, 3/4 (1981), 85-91. Second Seaton Award Story.

"Trophies." Kansas Women Writers, ed. Mel Farley. Lawrence, Kansas: Cottonwood Press, 1981. Pp. 101-108.

"Review of Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Writings by Women," ed. Jane Cooper, Gwen Head and Marcia Southwick; a special issue of The Iowa Review, 12 (Spring/ Summer 1981), in Poet and Critic, 14, 2 (1982), 65-69.

"The Drop." Mikrokosmos, 25, 1/2 (1979), 20-28.


POETRY IN ANTHOLOGIES

"Hole in the Heart of the Country." In Kansas Women Writers, ed. Mel Farley. Lawrence, Kansas: Cottonwood Press, 1981. P. 44.

"Letter Poem: To a Man with His Hands at His Sides." In Thirty Kansas Poets, ed. Denise Low. Lawrence, Kansas: Cottonwood press, 1979. P. 50.

"These Poems Will Fold Over Me." In Thirty Kansas Poets, ed. Denise Low. Lawrence, Kansas: Cottonwood Press, 1979. P. 50

"My Cousin Survives." In Forked Stream Anthology, ed. Janet Snyder and Carl Buchanan. Wichita: Forked Stream Press, 1976.


PRESENTATIONS

Creative Writing Workshops, Lectures, Programs Conducted

· Creator-Director. Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, 1989-1997

· Teacher, Super Summer Session 1988—Creative Writing, Ames, Iowa, Public Schools

· Guest Artist, Writer's Guild. Ames, Iowa. January 1987


HONORS AND AWARDS

· 2018 William Faulkner Literary Awards, Novel Honorary Mention

· Marlis Manley Broadhead Scholarship, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference 

· Finalist, NimrodFiction Contest (19 finalists among 714 entrants)

· Second Seaton Award for Fiction, Kansas Quarterly 

· The Willie Lee Martin Short Story Award

·M.F.A. Fellow in Fiction, Wichita State University 

· Honorable Mention, Sixth Annual National Playwriting Contest, Wichita State University 


Marlis Manley Broadhead ~ Author

24920 Mission Belleview Road Louisburg, KS 66053 US

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