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The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books and Martha Merrell’s Books launch a new writers series on February 9, 2012. First in our lineup: An Evening With Reed Farrel Coleman.
Join us for a special reception with award-winning mystery author Reed Farrel Coleman. Meet the author while enjoying the atmosphere at one of historic downtown Waukesha’s premier venues – newly renovated Taylors People’s Park. Coleman will read a selection from his new release HURT MACHINE and be available to sign your copy. This event is advance ticket sales only. Hurry! Space is limited!
Reception only $25
Reception and reserved copy of HURT MACHINE $40
Tickets on sale at Martha Merrell’s Books
231 W. Main Street, Waukesha – (262) 547-1060
In a recent interview with Duotrope, The Main Street Publishing Company Managing Editor M. Scott Douglass discusses why he’s a fan of Kathie Giorgio’s writing, what mistakes people often make when submitting their work and the role of modern technologies in publishing. Read the entire interview. http://www.duotrope.com/interview.aspx?id=5960
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is pleased to announce the 2012 Century Fence Middle School & High School Student Essay Contest.
Hosted and administered by the Festival, this contest is open to current middle and high school students in Waukesha County.
The Century Fence Middle School & High School Student Essay Contest recognizes the important relationship between reading and writing and seeks to reinforce that relationship by challenging students to continue developing their own writing and critical thinking skills as they discover themes and elements in literature.
Complete contest rules and guidelines
The 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books will feature two interactive reading programs — one for fiction and one for poetry — in which audience members get to do even more than ask some questions. They create the program. Modeled on Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project, Impact! Fiction and Impact! Poetry of Importance asks festival goers and presenters alike read from pieces written by someone else that have been important in their lives.
Impact! Poetry of Importance (Moderated by John Lehman) – Saturday, June 18 at 5:30 p.m.
Near your desk, on a bulletin board, do you have a crumpled, yellowed poem that you look at almost every day? Do you use this poem as a bookmark or include a line from it at the bottom of all your emails? This poem has clearly had impact on you, and you carry it with you throughout your life. Come to this hour and share in a celebration of language! Those who are sharing an impact poem should keep their reading to no more than two minutes; there will be a timer present.
Impact! Fiction (Moderated by Kathie Giorgio) – Saturday, June 18 at 11:30 a.m.
Somewhere in your house, do you have a dog-eared book that you pick up to read over and over again? Many of us have a paragraph or two that has resonated in our lives, stuck with us over the years, and pops to mind when we find ourselves in certain situations. What piece of fiction has affected your life? What piece of fiction do you use to affect others? Come to this hour and share in a celebration of language! Those who are sharing a piece of impact fiction should keep their reading to no more than two minutes; there will be a timer present. Let’s see how much of an impact we can bring to each other!
The Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha is proud to be hosting its 19th annual corporate spelling bee. The event, LCGW’s largest fundraiser of the year will be sponsored by Clarcorp Industrial Sales of Waukesha. It will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, at the Country Springs Hotel. “The Search for the Scintillating Speller: an LCGW Mystery Bee” is the kick-off event for the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books. The mystery theme was chosen because the Mystery Writers of America is a program partner for the Book Festival.
Business and organizations are encouraged to sponsor an employee team or non-profit team that might want to spell. The public is invited to watch the teams vie for the title of Best Corporate Speller in Waukesha County.
Please follow the link if you are interested in team and sponsorship information.
http://www.waukeshaliteracy.org/Bee%20Packet%2011.pdf
Authors Ann Angel and Jacqueline Houtman will be honored at the prestigious Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Luncheon on May 14 at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. The awards honor works published in 2010. Additional details are available on the Council’s website, www.wisconsinwriters.org.
Ann Angel of Brookfield will receive the Kingery/Derleth Book-Length Nonfiction Award and $500 for Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing (Amulet Books, 2010).
Jacqueline Houtman of Madison will receive the Tofte/Wright Children’s Literature Award and $500 for The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Boyd’s Mills Press, March 2010).
In addition, M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman of Milwaukee will be given honorable mention for Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010, with Zane Williams, photographer).
All four authors are scheduled to appear at the 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s second novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (W. W. Norton), has been awarded a 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. The Anisfield-Wolf awards “recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” Juror Rita Dove described the novel as “a rollicking tale that manages to speak seriously to the tragedy of ignorance and the damage caused by fear.” The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia was also selected by independent booksellers as an Indie-Next “Great Read” in September 2010.
Mary Helen Stefaniak will be appearing at the 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books on June 17.
To learn more about the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction go to www.anisfield-wolf.org.
MWA University-Midwest is a day-long fiction writing series organized by Mystery Writers of America and running concurrently with general Festival programming on Friday, June 17. A tremendous opportunity for writers at all levels and taught by the experts, these top-notch classes explore all facets of writing and publishing. Enrollment is limited and advanced registration is required. To learn more about the sessions and to register go to http://www.mysterywriters.org/mwaevents/details/10638.
Waukesha’s own Kathie Giorgio has just released her first novel The Home for Wayward Clocks. Published by Main St. Rag Publishing Company, this is the first novel for Giorgio, an internationally known short story writer and Director of Allwriter’s Workplace and Workshop located in downtown Waukesha. Kathie Giorgio will be on hand at the Festival to talk about her novel and the craft of fiction writing. For a brief excerpt from the novel, visit Kathie’s author page at Main St. Rag http://www.mainstreetrag.com/KGiorgio.html
Join us at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books
at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha campus
June 17-18, 2011
This event is free and open to the public. Explore our site to learn more about the Festival and how you can become involved.
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books and UW Waukesha Foundation are proud to announce the launch of the website, at www.sewibookfest.com. The website will be the central place for information related to the festival.
The website offers visitors news about the Festival including date, location and directions. Authors who wish to participate can apply directly from the site, and individuals can also sign up as volunteers for the festival.
Visit www.sewibookfest.com for the latest news and information about the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, hosted by UW Waukesha!
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