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Jan 2024
Finding Your Flash: How to Tell a Story in 500 Words or Less
This two-hour class focuses on the fundamental building blocks of story by examining “story beats” in both literary classics and by reading flash fiction examples. The group will look at genre and literary fiction, allowing participants to find their voice within. Registration required.
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Rose Warner Reading Series: Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson, American poet, translator, biographer and children's book author, is an award-winning writer and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her work focuses on family, recovery for African American history, as well as the search for the sacred in everyday life. Join her as she will reads and discusses her numerous publications.
Find out more »Book Club for Writers: Writing Literary Nonfiction that Publishers Notice
Learn how author Erica Hannickel took her nonfiction writing skills to the next level and found a major publisher for her book, Orchid Muse, in Lake Superior Writer's next installment of Book Club for Writers. Trained as a cultural historian, Hannickel published Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America with U. Penn in 2013. When she decided to write a book about orchids for a wider audience, she re-trained herself in nonfiction to let the story lead and find new…
Find out more »Poetry Essentials with Gary Boelhower
Want to hone your poetry writing skills in the company of like-minded writers? Award-winning poet and writing instructor Gary Boelhower is hosting a month-long online course on the fundamental building blocks of poems. Boelhower's goal is to fine tune your ability to see how a poem uses core dimensions to create an experience. Each class will include a writing prompt and 12-15 minutes of writing, followed by sharing from anyone who wishes to share. Each class will end with a…
Find out more »Book Talk with author Katharine Johnson
Find out how Katharine develops characters for her stories and how her protagonists struggle with abandonment, loss of voice and finding self as they journey to find their place in their world. The Wind and the Drum, her first novel was the 2018 One Book Northland. Born in a Red Canoe was honored as a finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award.
Find out more »Indigenous Writer Series: Tashia Hart and Staci Drouillard
AICHO’s next event of the Indigenous Writer Series features authors Tashia Hart and Staci L. Drouillard, who both write about Indigenous women’s experiences while exploring themes of love, relationships and traditional foods and medicines. In their session, Hart and Drouillard will each talk about their books, read an excerpt, participate in a Q&A segment and sign books.
Find out more »Cary J. Griffith Presents Gunflint Falling
Cary J. Griffith will be speaking about his new book, Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, published with the University of Minnesota Press. Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields and emerald waters of Eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. His books explore the natural world. In nonfiction,…
Find out more »Cary J. Griffith Presents Gunflint Falling
Cary J. Griffith will be signing his new book, Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, published with the University of Minnesota Press. Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields and emerald waters of Eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. His books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he…
Find out more »Maria Bamford Book Signing
Zenith Bookstore is thrilled to host Duluth's own Maria Bamford for a meet-and-greet and book signing of her best-selling memoir Sure, I'll Join Your Cult. Singular and inimitable, Bamford’s memoir explores what it means to keep going, and to be a member of society despite not being very good at it. In turn, she hopes to transform isolating experiences into comedy that will make you feel less alone.
Find out more »Cary J. Griffith Presents Gunflint Falling
Cary J. Griffith discusses his new book, Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, published with the University of Minnesota Press. Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields and emerald waters of Eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. His books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the…
Find out more »Indigenous Storytelling Week
Tuesday, February 20: Ojibwe Storytelling Night with Michael Migizi Sullivan, Ph.D., an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) linguist from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in northern Wisconsin. Thursday, February 22: UW-Superior students from FNS 333 – History of Indigenous People will be reading Indigenous Australian stories by Kath Walker.
Find out more »Lake Superior Writers’ 2024 Writing Contest
Lake Superior Writers has opened submissions for its 2024 writing contest. The theme is “legends,” which can be interpreted as broadly as a writer sees fit. Think about what legend has influenced your life, historically, currently or in the future ... and write about it! There are four categories this year, including poetry (up to three), short fiction (500 to 2,500 words), short-short fiction (up to 500 words) and creative nonfiction (up to 2,500 words). Winning and runner-up prizes include…
Find out more »Cary J. Griffith Presents Gunflint Falling
Cary J. Griffith discusses his new book, Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, published with the University of Minnesota Press. Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields and emerald waters of Eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota. His books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the…
Find out more »Olga Walker Awards and Author Event
The 2024 Olga Walker Awards and Author Event features a conversation with David Heska Wanbli Weiden, award-Winning author of the novel Winter Counts. Facilitated by Christina Woods, executive director of the Duluth Art Institute and member of the Bois Forte Tribal Nation. Gourmet brunch is included. David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, was named by the New York Times as one of “the most critically acclaimed young novelists working now.” His debut novel, Winter…
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