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"Creative writing is communication through revelation - it is the Self escaping into the open." -E.B. White



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This Website - Welcome to Michigan Writers online home, the support, education,and gathering site for writers in Northwest Lower Michigan. Escape into the open, Michigan poets and essayists! You too, journalists, novelists, memoirists, and "ists" of every ilk. Write (and read) on!

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Chapbook 2012 Contest Guidelines Posted

Check under our MW Publications tab for our updated Chapbook contest guidelines. Take note: December 15 is the deadline for submissions. If you have never published a book, but have a wad of fabulous poems, or short stories, or creative nonfiction, please consider submitting to the chapbook contest. Publishing a chapbook will change your (writing) life in many positive ways.


Please note: we had some formatting snafus that made our eligibility guidelines hard to understand. Please check our newly updated version.

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Workshop with Patricia Ann McNair, Saturday, October 8, 1-3:30 pm

Places of Our Past: Finding the Familiar in Our Stories, Poems, Essays, and Memoirs

Patricia Ann McNair is no stranger to our north woods; she is a frequent and well-loved faculty member at the Interlochen Writers Retreat. As you might guess from the title of this workshop, she is a versatile teacher, and this workshop promises to be rewarding for writers in most any genre.

Associate Professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago, Patricia Ann McNair is the author of the newly released linked story collection, The Temple of Air, from Elephant Rock Books. Her stories and nonfiction have been published in various anthologies and journals.

The workshop is free and open to the public. Saturday, October 8, from 1-3:30 pm in room 213 at NMC's University Center, 2200 Dendrinos Drive, Traverse City.

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NMC's Courting the Muse Conference, Friday, November 11

Michigan Writers is a co-sponsor of this event, held at Northwestern Michigan College's Oleson Center from 9 am to 4:30 am. The conference features presentations, workshops, readings and discussion to inspire and improve your writing. Faculty this year includes Jack Driscoll, Jerry Dennis, Anne-Marie Oomen, Fleda Brown, and Mary Jo Zazueta. The registration fee of $99.00 includes lunch and materials. To register call 231-995-1700 or log on to www.nmc.edu/ees.

Look for more details on our workshop page on this website.

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Workshop with James Arthur, Tuesday, November 29

James Arthur is an award-winning poet, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry and other leading journals. His debut collection will be published next year by Copper Canyon Press. He will be leading a poetry workshop for us on Tuesday, November 29, 7-9 pm and NMC's University Center. The workshop is free. Look for more details to be posted closer to the event.

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Michigan Writers Fall Potluck, Thursday, September 29

Come one, come all, to our fall potluck. Bring a dish to pass and a friend to hob nob and feast. Dinner starts at 6 pm. Our program: a discussion of how to start and maintain a happy, healthy writing group, drawing on the collective wisdom of some of our writing group leaders and participants. If you are a member, or if you're interested in meeting the local writing community, please join us for this relaxed and social evening.

The potluck will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Center Road on Old Mission Peninsula.

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Bear River Writers Conference: May 31-June 4, 2012

Mark your calendars now for this terrific writing conference, sponsored by University of Michigan and held at Camp Michigania on beautiful Walloon Lake (near Petoskey). UM tells us that 2012 conference information will be posted on a new website in December. This conference fills up fast, so it's wise to keep tabs on this one. Here is the groovy new website address:

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/bearriver/

 

But beware. Its beauty may stun you momentarily. That's happened to at least one person.

And keep in mind that Michigan Writers offers partial scholarships to this conference. It's a great reason to be a Michigan Writer.

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Happy Birthday Dunes Review Reading and Launch 

Monday, July 25, 7pm 

@ Glen Arbor Art Association ( Lake Street , Glen Arbor)  

 

Join Dunes Review contributors and literary friends for a reading and launch of Volume 15, Issue II and 15 years of publishing fine writing from Michigan and beyond. The current issue will be for sale, as will copies of Michigan Writers Cooperative Press chapbooks.  William J. Shaw Prize winners will be announced and winners who can make it will read.  Come toast endurance and literary vitality with good words, wine and sweets.  This event is free.

Congratulations to Carrie Strand Tebeau, Amber Edmundson, and Stephanie Heit the William J. Shaw Prize winners!

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