Category: Literature News
Door County writing classes, poetry readings, author appearances, meetups and more. Experience the rich literature community of the Door in inspiring settings.
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Announcing the Judges of the 2012 Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose and Photography Jubilee
The Peninsula Pulse is once again sponsoring the Hal Grutzmacher Writer’s Exposé and Photography Jubilee. The contests are held in the spirit of the late Hal Grutzmacher, a professor and Door County bookstore owner, by offering commentary and encouragement to promising writers and photographers from accomplished and professional writers and photographers.
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Saturday Book Sales Return to Sturgeon Bay
The Sturgeon Bay Farmer’s Market has returned for the summer and so has the Friends of Door County Libraries Used Book Sales. Visitors to the Farmer’s Market on Saturdays can also “feed their mind” by crossing the street to visit the Used Book Sale in the basement of the Sturgeon Bay Library.
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The Clearing Folk School announces Norbert Blei, essayist, novelist, poet, painter and journalist, will teach a one-day writing class on September 14 from 9 am to 4 pm.
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“Schooner Days in Door County” Available
Twenty-five years after its original printing, Schooner Days in Door County has returned to the Door County Maritime Museums’ store shelves.
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Gary Jones Honored at Wisconsin Writers’ Spring Conference
Gary Jones of Sister Bay was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Florence Lindemann Humor Contest for his essay “Picture This.” The award was presented at the Wisconsin Writers’ Spring Conference on May 5 in Siren, Wisconsin.
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Woodwalk Gallery Hosts Book Launch
Vance Toivonen, author and pastor, will introduce his new book, Reading Jesus: Meeting the Word of God at Woodwalk Gallery June 6 from 7 – 9 pm. At this launch, there will be refreshments, opportunities to meet the author and signed copies available for purchase.
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Children’s Book Donated to the Wellness Center of Door County
The Wellness Center of Door County received a donation of $300 worth of children’s books from Altrusa of Door County, a charitable organization whose mission is “advancing literacy through opportunities.
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Paul Burton Releases “From Trails to Rails”
How did immigrant settlers of Door County get around before there were roads and motorized vehicles? A new book by Paul Burton, From Trails to Rails is an illustrated introduction to how travel evolved on the peninsula.
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Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award Brings Poetry to Baileys Harbor
Nancy Rafal of Baileys Harbor received a Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award for her proposal to bring poetry into the eye of the general public in an unconventional manner.
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Door County Poets’ Retreat Redux
“The retreat reminded me that I am a poet,” said Appleton writer Barb Germiat, “and that I want to focus my efforts more on poetry and be a poet every day again.
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WI Fellowship of Poets Announce Poetry Awards
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) awarded its 2012 Wisconsin Chapbook Prize and 2012 Muse Prize for Excellence in Poetry at the organization’s conference on April 27 and 28 in Madison.
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Magill Weber Featured at Book and Author Event
The Friends of Door County Libraries will host a Book and Author event on May 20 at 1 pm at the Baileys Harbor Town Hall. The event features Magill Weber, author of Door County Outdoors, A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, Paddling, Beaches, and Natural Places published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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Verse Wisconsin Seeks Protest Poetry
Verse Wisconsin is currently seeking poetry submissions for their online issue, which will be published this fall. Verse Wisconsin’s commitment to community led them to theme the issue around protest poetry, and titled it “It’s Political.”
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Dickinson Poetry Series Features Larry J. Eriksson
Larry J. Eriksson will read his works that explore life’s mysteries through poetry at the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on May 9 at 7 pm. Eriksson is a Wisconsin writer and poet living in Madison and Ellison Bay with his wife, Karen.
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Poetry Trail Showcases New Poems
New poems are gracing the Newport State Park Poetry Trail. The current exhibit, which will run through the month of June, features the works of 19 high school students.
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Seeking Submissions for Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose and Photography Jubilee
Summer is fast approaching and it is again time for the Hal Grutzmacher Writers’ Exposé and Photography Jubilee. This year’s literary issue will come out on Friday, August 3, 2012.
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Door Community Auditorium Hosts Wisconsin Poet Laureate
The Friends of Gibraltar and the Gibraltar School Library will present Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate, for a poetry reading and open mic event on April 25 at 7 pm at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek.
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Wisconsin Writers Awards Announced
The Council for Wisconsin Writers announced winners of the Wisconsin Writers Awards for work published in 2011. Each will receive $500 and a weeklong writer’s residency at Shake Rag Alley or Maplewood Lodge in Mineral Point.
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UUF Celebrates Publication of “Harvest”
The third year of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s (UUF) Dickinson Poetry Series recently concluded and a few of the poems read in the series have been published in a chapbook entitled Harvest.