Category: Book Awards
Nominations due Sept 30 for second annual LSSU Writing the U.P. Award
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…
Winners Selected in Second Annual U.P. Nature Writing Contest
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…
Call For Entries: Second Annual U. P. Nature Writing Contest
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…
Winners in the First Annual UP Nature Writing Contest to appear on September 19th
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…
U.P. author receives rare honor
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…
Lon and Lynn Emerick honored with outstanding writer award
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…
Ben Mukkala wins Helen Longyear Paul Award for the enhancement of local history
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…
Lynn and Lon Emerick named Outstanding Writers for 2012
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…
Hitchhiking After Dark: wins 1st Place for Humor
UPPAA author Rich Hill is happy to announce that his most recent book, “Hitchhiking After Dark: Offbeat Stories from a Small Town,” just won First Place in the Humor category at the 21st Annual Midwest Book Awards Be sure to check out all the humor books from our UPPAA member…
Tyler Tichelaar honored as “Outstanding Writer”
Congratulations to our own Tyler R. Tichelaar, just selected for the 15th Annual Marquette County Arts Awards You were anonymously nominated for and selected by the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee as the winner of the “Outstanding Writer” award. This award is given to a working community writer who has…
Finalist: “Paradise North – Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan”
Foreword Reviews, located in Traverse City, announces that Paradise North – Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, by Lon Emerick of Skandia, with color photographs by UP artist Mark Mitchell, has been selected as a Finalist in the 2010 Book of the Year Awards. Book of the Year is…
Nominations due Sept 30 for second annual LSSU Writing the U.P. Award

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…
Winners Selected in Second Annual U.P. Nature Writing Contest
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…
Call For Entries: Second Annual U. P. Nature Writing Contest
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…
Winners in the First Annual UP Nature Writing Contest to appear on September 19th

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…
U.P. author receives rare honor

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…
Lon and Lynn Emerick honored with outstanding writer award

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…
Ben Mukkala wins Helen Longyear Paul Award for the enhancement of local history

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…
Lynn and Lon Emerick named Outstanding Writers for 2012

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…
Hitchhiking After Dark: wins 1st Place for Humor
UPPAA author Rich Hill is happy to announce that his most recent book, “Hitchhiking After Dark: Offbeat Stories from a Small Town,” just won First Place in the Humor category at the 21st Annual Midwest Book Awards Be sure to check out all the humor books from our UPPAA member…
Tyler Tichelaar honored as “Outstanding Writer”
Congratulations to our own Tyler R. Tichelaar, just selected for the 15th Annual Marquette County Arts Awards You were anonymously nominated for and selected by the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee as the winner of the “Outstanding Writer” award. This award is given to a working community writer who has…
Finalist: “Paradise North – Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan”
Foreword Reviews, located in Traverse City, announces that Paradise North – Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, by Lon Emerick of Skandia, with color photographs by UP artist Mark Mitchell, has been selected as a Finalist in the 2010 Book of the Year Awards. Book of the Year is…