Category: Literature News

On Wings of Trust tells the true story of Captain Carole Litten, who proved worthy of her 114 passengers’ trust by skillfully landing an aircraft that suffered two emergencies.

The Ephraim Historical Foundation will host a book signing reception for Ellen Baker, author of I Gave My Heart to Know This (Random House, 2011), on September 2 from 4 – 6 pm at Anderson Barn History Center in Ephraim.

The Wisconsin Regional Writers Association’s (WRWA) fall conference will be held in Stevens Point, Wi. at The Ramada Inn from September 23 – 25. The conference will attract writers from all genres.

Journaling Cancer in Words and Images, Caught in the Clutch of the Crab has just been published by pioneering art therapist Harriet Claire Wadeson, Ph.D., LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM.

Warren Gerds will be at Edgewood Orchard Galleries to share stories from his two recent books, Tales of a Newspaperman and My Father Lives in a Drawer, on August 17 at 4 pm.

In Searching for Surprise, published by Third Step Press, author/artist Madonna Siles asks readers to imagine a life without inspiration, excitement or surprise.

Chicago Kid: From Whence I Came, a new memoir by Door County resident Hughie Boy LeVoy, is now available. The book contains a series of personal scenes over 20 years, spanning birth to marriage.

Judy Roy of Baileys Harbor will read from her works of poetry at the Dickinson Poetry Series on August 10 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim.

The current exhibit on Newport State Park’s Poetry Trail features poems from The Unabridged Poetry Group. The display will run through the month of September.

The Accidental Soldier is a World War II novel written by Door County resident Ben Bailey. His main character is Mitchell Morgan, an American graduate student in history, who travel to Germany and France in 1939 and 1940 to improve his foreign language skills.

Michael Farmer will be the featured poet in the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on July 13 at 7 pm. An open mic will follow Farmer’s reading. Farmer, a poet from Baileys Harbor, describes himself in the as “short and sweet.”

Goobadabers, a new children’s book written by Door County resident Gregg E. Powell and illustrated by former Door County resident Corinne Lea, is now available from Publish America.

Ron Kuka, Faculty Associate and Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, will judge the fiction category for this year’s Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose.

James Grady, author of the children’s book No Haircut, a story about a child fearing a haircut, will be holding a book signing at Book World, Inc., located at 30 N. 3rd Avenue in Sturgeon Bay.

Justin Isherwood, a longtime contributor to the Peninsula Pulse and this year’s non-fiction judge for the Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose, recently published a collection of essays entitled Pulse.

Presented by the University of Minnesota Duluth Library, Lake Superior Writers, and Friends of Duluth Public Library, the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) were announced May 19.

James c. Rigoni of Gills Rock (and Longboat, Florida) recently released his first book, Time Once Again: Evolution of the Spirit, a novel about a man’s enlightened journey to self-discovery with the help of an unlikely mentor, Jonathan.

The everyday adventures, struggles, and shenanigans of a father and his only son. It’s the stuff of memories, of Sundays, of legend. The comic strip “Up Nort” has been gracing the pages of the Peninsula Pulse for three years, and it is all about those everyday adventures.

Friends of Peninsula State Park (FPSP) are pleased to announce the publication of The Nature of Peninsula: A Park Ecology Sampler. The 90-page book, with color photographs, features essays by field specialists including Roy and Charlotte Lukes, Scott Craven, Tom Blackwood, and several DNR staff.