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A Long-Awaited Chapbook Celebration!

A Long-Awaited Chapbook Celebration!

Sunday, June 5 at 7 p.m.The Writing House at Interlochen Center for the Arts. Park in lot U.Please join us for a reading and reception celebrating the work of the winners of the 2021 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Contest. Poet Kathleen Rabbers will read from her...

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Free Workshop, August 24, 2022

Wednesday, August 24 at 7:00 PM, Ann Arbor poet Ellen Stone will lead a 2-hour generative poetry reading and workshop, Tell Your Story: Poetry as Solace at the Interlochen Public Library, 9411 Tenth Street, Interlochen, MI 49643. Participants will learn how writing...

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Annual Meeting, March 26!!!

IMPORTANT: The annual Michigan Writers meeting, May 26, 5:30-7:00 will be held at SILVER SPRUCE BREWERY (not Workshop as previously announced). The slate of officers will be presented for a vote, and writer and educator John Mauk will do a mini reading from his book...

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Story-Centered Interviews: A Fresh Approach for Historians and Writers

Story-Centered Interviews: A Fresh Approach for Historians and Writers

In this workshop, instead of treating interviews as sources of often-unreliable factual information, we’ll approach interviews as invaluable, even sacred opportunities for people to tell us the stories that explain who they are and the lives they have lived. We’ll put a priority upon humanistic and journalistic approaches over those of social science, focusing not on the “informant” but on the person. Instead of going into an interview with long lists of fact-soliciting questions, our preparation and practice will rely upon careful listening and the sympathetic pursuit of the stories people use to make sense of their lives.

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“The Story Engine” Monday, Oct. 23 (A Michigan Writers Workshop)

“The Story Engine” Monday, Oct. 23 (A Michigan Writers Workshop)

What makes a story move? If you find that your stories often run out of energy and stall, or that your characters and scenes stagnate, join this workshop to focus upon the power source — the “engine” — that drives your story forward. In this interactive FREE workshop, we’ll focus upon the common structural elements that good stories share. Offered by Michigan Writers, in partnership with National Novel Writing Month.

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