If you have basic skills in HTML and managing menus, posts, and pages on a WordPress site, you may be just the person the UPPAA is looking for! Starting on June 1st, 2019 we’ll need a new Webmaster for UPPAA.org and all related social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). Managing the website encompasses several related activities: New book announcements…
The deadline for the 2018-19 Dandelion Cottage Short Story Contest has now passed, and our judges are busy reading the submissions. One thing is clear—we have some very talented young writers in the U.P. This is the second year of the contest and the momentum is growing. Winners will be…
Congratulations to the following UPPAA Members whose work will be featured in the 3rd annual UP Reader journal to be released in April 2019. Stories, essays, and poems are selected by a jury to present the best writing of the U.P. to the world at large. There are no fees to…
Do you know a young person who is a creative writer? Dandelion Cottage award closes January 31st 2019. Winner takes $250 for Best Short Story, there are no fees to enter this contenst! WOW! All U.P. Students are eligible to enter, please act today! Winners will be published in the…
Learn about Mikel B. Classen, how he came to the U.P. and learned to be a writer with 906 Outdoors Video Journal!
The deadline for Dandelion Cottage Short Story Contest is only 26 days away. Hopefully, contestants have their stories finished and are in the polishing phase. It is appropriate and expected that contestants seek input from parents, teachers, and other knowledgeable individuals, but the students must understand and make all the…
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The tallest known tree on earth is located in Redwood National Park in northern California. More than twelve hundred years old, it is approximately 380 feet tall–and still climbing! The tree in this book sprouted, flourished, and survived ecological threats for over twelve hundred years before being discovered by tall-tree…
The 3rd annual Heikki Lunta festival, which celebrates Finnish heritage and all things winter, will be in Negaunee January 18-19, 2019. They are seeking vendors for a Tori (Finnish market). Last year’s attendance was 1,000 and they are working to get double this year. The tori is from 10-2 on…
Young Authors is looking for authors to present to students for a week in May. Our Vice President, Gretchen Preston, says about the Young Authors conference: “Authors of all genres are welcome. The audiences are elementary school students. I think the older students would also be interested in aspects of…
The Discovery Center (Hancock, MI) was the first homeschool co-op to express an interest in the Dandelion Cottage Award. As such, the UPPAA board has extended an invitation to all U.P. homeschool co-ops representing 10 or more students to submit short stories to this annual contest. Schools and co-ops have…
The Marquette Regional History Center presents: An Enduring Christmas by Ragene Henry – A Holiday Read December 5, 6:30-8:00 pm In 1850 when the first Christmas season approached the small community of Marquette, citizens were running out of food and waiting on a supply ship that their survival depended…
Barnes & Noble plans to open 10-15 new stores in 2019, about three-quarters of which will replace larger stores whose leases have ended, while one-quarter will be in new locations, the company said yesterday in a conference call with analysts (transcript courtesy of Seeking Alpha) following the release of second-quarter…
Meet UPPAA authors in person at these upcoming holiday events. Participating authors include Tyler Tichelaar, Larry Buege, Sonny Longtine, Carrie Pearson, and Susan Purvis. Saturday, December 1. Author Extravaganza. Snowbound Books, Marquette, MI. Carrie Pearson 11-1, Susan Purvis 1-3, Tyler Tichelaar 3-5 Fri-Sun, December 7-9. Tyler Tichelaar will be signing books…
The editors of the collection will be Jon K. Lauck and Gleaves Whitney. All proposals should be sent to jlauck1941@hotmail.com Volume editors seek proposals for chapters to be included in an edited collection focused on exploring the northern reaches of the American Midwest and the borderlands, or imagined borderlands, along the…
Pirates and treasure, the timeless theme in adventurous fiction, takes center stage in Mikel B. Classen’s second edition of Lake Superior Tales: Stories of Humor and Adventure in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Published by the Modern History Press (November 2018), the book includes ten stories that span the 19th century through present day,…
NOTE: Membership in SMA is NOT required for you to enter this prestigious contest. The Society of Midland Authors is now accepting submissions for its annual literary awards, which will honor books by Midwestern authors published in 2018. Three judges on each committee will select one winner that is best…
Board Meetings – Members welcome! Open meetings the first Friday of the month at the Peter White Library, Marquette Next meeting: Nov 2nd, 2018 from 12-1:30 EDT. To join the conference Dial: 712-432-6299 Enter your passcode: 483921
Big congratulations to our UPPAA members who were nominated for the 44th Annual Pushcart Prize for their work in U.P. Reader #2. This is the only award that honors the best of American small presses each year with an anthology that spans our great country. Leslie Askwith for the personal essay “A Geology…
Meet UPPAA authors on Thursday, November 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m.Marquette Regional History Center, Marquette, MI. “Reading Between the Wines.” Join Tyler Tichelaar and Sonny Longtine as they read from their books during this wine-tasting event to raise money to help literacy.
