For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 3rd Annual U.P. Notable Books List Books by U.P. authors and about the U.P. to be honored MARQUETTE, MI (January 4th, 2022)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 3rd Annual…
For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 2nd Annual U.P. Notable Books List Books by U.P. authors and about the U.P. to be honored MARQUETTE, MI (January 25, 2021)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 2nd Annual…
U.P. Book Review is a new service of Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA). The purpose of U.P. Book Review is to provide an alternate source of book reviews for UP authors. There’s no fees whatsoever to submit your book to U.P. Book Review. Although we can’t absolutely guarantee…
By Ernest Dempsey (NewsBlaze) The Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) congratulates the three of its member authors – Mikel B. Classen, Ann Dallman, and Jane Kopecky – for winning the 2020 State History Awards presented by the Historical Society of Michigan (HSM). Presented during its annual Michigan History…
The Historical Society of Michigan has nominated historian, author, and editor Mikel Bruce Classen for the next Charles Follo Award, which is presented annually at the Upper Peninsula History Conference. Classen has literally dedicated most of his professional life as a writer to the promotion of U.P. history. His…
U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 1st Annual U.P. Notable Books List MARQUETTE, MI (March 30, 2020)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 1st Annual U.P. Notable Books List this week. UPPAA Publications Chair Mikel Classen (Sault Ste. Marie) initiated the effort as a response…
The second place award for this year’s Dandelion Cottage Short Story Award went to Lucy Woods, a junior from Copper Country Christian School, for her story “Stellae.” This is the second time this contest has been awarded by the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA). Winners of first, second,…
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…
Tonight I presented Emma Locknane with her second-place Dandelion Cottage Short Story medallion. This was during the Gwinn School Board meeting. Two TV stations and the Mining Journal were in attendance, but I don’t think they were there to place me on the air waves. The original purpose of the…
Allow me to introduce Katie McEachern. Her short story, “The Attack,” earned $250 and first place honors in the Dandelion Cottage Short Story Contest. Her story will also be featured in the 2nd issue of U.P. Reader which will be released at the UPPAA Spring Conference taking place at the Landmark…
Deadline is Jan. 9 to enter Society of Midland Authors awards competition Competition is open to all residents…. You do NOT have to be a member of SMA to submit your book! Saturday, Jan. 9, is the deadline to enter a book in the Society of Midland Authors annual literary…
Marquette Monthly has hosted an annual Short Story Contest since 1990. It is open to all U.P. fiction writers. A $250 cash prize is awarded to the author of the winning entry, which is also published in the MM. Contest Guidelines All entries must be works of fiction no longer…
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.: Members of the public are invited to submit nominations for Lake Superior State University’s second annual Writing the U.P. Award, which seeks to honor fiction authors who have portrayed the essence of life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Deadline for nominations is Sept. 30. The 2014 award…
For immediate release:Information: Lynn EmerickAugust 21, 2014North Country Publishingnorthco@up.net906-942-7879 Winners Selected in Second Annual U.P. Nature Writing Contest Entries for the Second Annual Upper Peninsula Nature Writing Contest were received from across the Upper Peninsula –Munising and Ironwood, Copper Harbor and Newberry, Hancock, Engadine, Naubinway, Lake Linden, Chassell and Wakefield…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2014 Lon and Lynn Emerick North Country Publishing northco@up.net 906-942-7879 North Country Publishing of Skandia and the Falling Rock Café and Bookstore of Munising announce the Second Annual U.P. Nature Writing Contest. Following the success of the 2013 Contest, which saw entries from all over…
U.P. resident writers serving as contest judges have selected the winners in the First Annual UP Nature Writing Contest, sponsored by North Country Publishing of Skandia and Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore of Munising. Entries were received from residents across the peninsula. Andrea Chynoweth of Munising is the contest…
March 24, 2013 (Fayette, MI) Donna Winters, a resident of Fayette on the Garden Peninsula and the author of seventeen novels about the Great Lakes, was recently given a highly unusual honor by her hometown. The mayor of Brockport, New York, the Erie Canal village where Donna grew up and the primary…
MARQUETTE — The City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center is proud to announce the winners of the fifteenth annual Marquette County Arts Awards. Sponsored by the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, the Art Awards recognize and thank arts supporters and community members that are especially involved…
The Marquette Regional History Center recently awarded Ben Mukkala the Helen Longyear Paul Award for the enhancement of local history. Mr. Mukkala is a well known Marquette native, writing many entertaining books and articles too numerous to count about the history and people of the region. He also speaks to school groups, teaching them…
MARQUETTE — The City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center is proud to announce the winners of the fifteenth annual Marquette County Arts Awards. Sponsored by the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, the Art Awards recognize and thank arts supporters and community members that are especially involved…
