Writers Workshops Offered at Hessel School House Monday, July 24 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM Story & Craft Time with new U.P. author Julie Buchholtz At Hessel School House – Avery Arts and Nature Learning Center, we believe that introducing children to an author can be a formative moment. It…
Proud to learn UPPAA’s own Charli Mills is helping guide people towards the best short story writing they’ve every done! Selected Shorts Contest – Nov 11, 2019 Deadline Upper Peninsula winters are filled with love, laughter, nostalgia, and above all else, snow. Everyone has a U.P. winter story to tell, and…
More Than You Think You Know, a women’s road (river) trip novel by Cyndi Perkins, has been released by Beating Windward Press. The story of ships and friendships, set in fall 2006, follows Hailey, Robin and Trish, three women piloting the 44-foot luxury trawler Blackout through the Heartland Rivers from…
On Sep. 12, 2016, at the Portage Lake District Library in Houghton MI, three UPPAA authors will take part in a panel discussion on writing about different ethnic groups. Deborah K. Frontiera, Cyndi Perkins and Larry Buege (and hopefully Larry Lankton) will discuss with the public how they researched and…
Bob Wenc writes I’m looking to find find UP authors who write about the area’s ethnic heritage to be part of a panel discussion during the week prior to the Parade of Nations Sept. 17 date. This would fit into the “Passport to the World” theme of the 27th Annual Parade…
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC) invites you to the second annual celebration of our Michigan Authors Collections WHERE: 770 N. Main St., L’Anse, Michigan 49946 WHEN: Tuesday, June 14th, 4:30 to 7:30pm Reading: Chad Faries (The Border Will be Soon) Janeen Pergrin Rastell (Objects May Appear Closer and In…
Writers of the Northern Persuasion – U.P. Author and Publisher Forum Saturday, April 9th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Finnish American Heritage Center 435 Quincy Street, Hancock Featuring over 20 regional authors and publishers offering book sales and publishing information. Fiction, non-fiction, regional, poetry, book design, photography, children’s and more! Presentations…
Calling all U.P. authors and publishers Finlandia University is seeking authors and publishers from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to attend the Writers of the Northern Persuasion all-author forum for a free bookselling opportunity. The event will take place Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the…
Attention All U.P. Authors, As you may recall, Finlandia University is doing a spring multi-faceted event called “Writers of the Northern Persuasion,” which includes several featured author presentations and an all-author forum. (Full schedule of events coming soon!) In addition, the Maki Library, which is Finlandia’s university library, will be…
I thought some of you might have known our fellow author Frank Bartol, who passed away on November 21 and whose funeral was in Traunik, MI today. In the 1990s, he had a weekly column in the Mining Journal and later for the Escanaba Daily Press. He wrote the history…
Those of you not in the U.P. may have missed all the recent media coverage about the new documentary, “Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913.” The film has already been shown at the Calumet Theatre and the Peter White Public Library and will be broadcast nationwide on PBS on December 17th. Here…
Copper Empire is a book of historical fiction written by Donna Searight Simons. Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long in Red Jacket, Michigan. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them…
North Country Publishing author Lon and Lynn Emerick will be offering their Upper Peninsula books at the Home for the Holidays Gift Market on November 26th from 10-4 pm at the MTU Rosza Center, Houghton MI. Event sponsor writes: “We are excited to have your beautiful books in our show this year.” (Wasn’t…
