Category: Literature News

Jim Mihaley, a Sturgeon Bay native, has written a novel for children entitled You Can’t Have My Planet But Take My Brother, Please. Published by Macmillan on April 10, the book will be available at bookstores everywhere.

Door County Poet Laureate Barbara Larsen will share her work at the first performance of the 2012 – 2013 UUF’s Dickinson Poetry Series on April 11 at 7 pm.

Peggy Williams and Mary Joy Johnson’s first mystery, On the Road to Death’s Door, is being published under the pen name M J Williams in both electronic and print formats by Amazon.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) is pleased to announce an exciting list of featured poets for 2012-2013, the fourth year of the series.

The Friends of the Door County Libraries is sponsoring a “Half-Price Book Sale” at the Sturgeon Bay Library on March 17 from 9 am – 1 pm. The event is a combination of spring-cleaning and an attempt to make way for new book donations.

Over 200 people attended a Dr. Seuss-themed Family Literacy Night at Sawyer School on March 8. Reading specialist, Gretchen Montee, teamed up with The Boys and Girls Club and the Sturgeon Bay Parent-Teacher Group (PTG) to enlist the help of school staff and community members to create an interactive event for local families.

Ministry Door County Medical Center Auxiliary’s annual book fair will be held in the hospital lobby on March 22 from 10 – 3:30 pm and March 23 from 9 – 2:30 pm.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series will feature retired Sheboygan elementary school librarian Francha Barnard on March 7 at 7 pm.

On Feb. 8, seven Gibraltar High School students were featured at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series. The Emily Dickinson Poetry Series takes place on the second Wednesday of the month throughout the year.

The Moonhawker by George Fox is a thriller about a Special Forces soldier-turned-educator, Atticus Gunner. After an anonymous philanthropic organization makes him an offer he cannot refuse, Gunner and his two young daughters embark on an adventure into the untamed waters of northern Lake Michigan on a 32-foot sloop named the Moonhawk.

“Untitled” Used & Rare Books of Sturgeon Bay will host their First Friday Open Mic Poetry Night event Feb. 3 from 5 – 8 pm. The program is part of the shop’s 2012 monthly series of poetry events to add activity and enjoyment to Door County residents and visitors during these slow and silent winter months.

An accomplished group of young poets from Gibraltar High School will be featured at the Dickinson Series reading on Feb. 8 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (UUF) in Ephraim.

Residents and visitors are invited to participate in this year’s Door County Reads by reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and participating in scheduled activities throughout January and February.

The next Dickinson Poetry Series will feature David Clowers in “Out of the Woods and Into a Poem” on Jan. 11 at 7 pm at the UU Fellowship in Ephraim. Clowers lived in a small, self-built cabin on 30 acres of Door County woods without electricity or running water for nine years – over three times as long as Henry David Thoreau.

The chosen “read” for the 2012 Door County Reads program is Carson McCullers’ first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a book that touches on isolation, poverty, friendship, and racism in a 1930s Georgia mill town.

Gary Jones, a regular contributor to the Peninsula Pulse, was recognized in two categories of the 62nd Annual Jade Ring Creative Writing Contests, sponsored by the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association (WRWA).

Wisconsin People & Ideas and the Wisconsin Book Festival are offering over $1,500 in prizes, publication in an award-winning magazine, and a reading at the Wisconsin Book Festival for winners of their 2012 Short Story Contest and 2012 Poetry Contest.

Verse Wisconsin (VW) 107 is now available online and in print. The issue features “Earthworks.”

Marybeth Mattson is the featured poet in the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on Dec. 14 at 7 pm. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay (UWGB), Mattson majored in creative writing, dabbled in fiction, but always returned to poetry as a second home of sorts.

The Friends of Door County Libraries invites all to its 4th Annual Holiday Book Sale, which takes place from 9 am – 1 pm on Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Sturgeon Bay Library, located at 107 S.