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NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES
2022 WINTER/SPRING SEASON
A year-round
book festival
CELEBRATING
12 YEARS AND
200 + AUTHORS!
Wanda M. Morris • Brad Meltzer • Ellen Airgood • Jack Cheng
Vanessa Riley • Paul Holes • Joy Harjo • Daniel Lieberman
Michael Schur • Honorée F. Jeffers • George Saunders
CONTENTS and CONTACTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS THE NWS TEAM
4 WELCOME CHRISTIE BACON Interim Executive Director
6 RAISING WRITERS CINDY WEAVER Office Manager
9 RAISING THE LITERARY BAR KARL KLOCKARS Communications Manager
COLLEEN ZANOTTI Creative / Publication Design
11 DANIEL LIEBERMAN
JARED OOSTERHART Website / Pragmatech
13 MICHAEL SCHUR
KEVIN FITTON Front Street Writers
14 HONORÉE FANNONE JEFFERS
Creative Writing Instructor
15 VANESSA RILEY
VALERIE KIRN-DUENSING Grant Writer
WANDA M. MORRIS
BOARD MEMBERS
18 BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
19 JACK CHENG
DOUG STANTON NWS Board President
21 ELLEN AIRGOOD
BOB GILES RYAN SULLIVAN
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BRAD MELTZER
JOY HARJO
RORIE LEWIS LISA THAUVETTE
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SUPPORT OUR AUTHORS
PAUL HOLES
NWS CO-FOUNDERS:
GRANT PARSONS ANNE STANTON
DOUG STANTON
Current event discussions. Theatre, art, and creative writing 31 LOOK WHO’S BEEN HERE!
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and service. At Cordia, you decide how each day is written,
and service. At Cordia, you decide how each day is written, 39 CELEBRATING 12 YEARS
as you continue to compose the ongoing story of you.
as you continue to compose the ongoing story of you.
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WELCOME • CELEBRATING 12 YEARS AND 200 AUTHORS! WELCOME • CELEBRATING 12 YEARS AND 200 AUTHORS!
You come to a book, a painting, a story, if we could feel the passing of time,
a movie, music, to be moved, confused, like a wind past our faces, we wouldn’t
mystified. You come to give up control. waste another minute with nonsense.
And that’s hard to do, especially in We’d read, and dream, and we’d talk
an age when how we communicate about we’ve seen.
is often routinized by algorithms.
With your help, and together, that’s
The poet John Keats, at the age of what we’re trying to do here.
21 in 1817, wrote a letter to his
brother that today we call the
“Negative Capability” letter. Keats
writes, “I mean Negative Capability,
that is, when a man is capable of being
W elcome. It’s been 10 years and
counting since a group of folks
started NWS around the kitchen table
of the best crowds they’ve bared
their souls to. They mean it. They
consistently say NWS is their favorite
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact
and reason…”
Doug Stanton
is a NWS co-founder,
author, and a proud
in our house on a cold January night. and best stop on a national book tour. graduate of Traverse
They rarely see this kind of community He is describing the role of the artist Heights Elementary
Well, 200 author events later, with support for programs like NWS’s, and reader—to seek connections and School, grateful
21,500 books (and counting) sold, and striving to put a book in every hand on oceans, not silos and deserts. A few for the wonderful
75,000 tickets sold, and hundreds of Main Street and the tools for success in years later, at age 25, Keats was dead, teachers there.
hours of conversation under the lights the hearts of students. of tuberculosis. If we truly understood,
of the City Opera House, and in the
pixels of your Zoom screen, here we are NWS has long been committed to
with a new season. At a reflection point.
What kind of stories have we been
offering a diverse lineup of authors,
genres, and voices. We’re here to give
OUR MISSION
telling? Funny, sad, chilling, uplifting, a place for the untold story to be told.
page-turning, literary—it’s hard to say, I ask our guests what “larger” story they The National Writers
might be telling in their books. There’s
exactly. To tell the truth, the nights
Series of Traverse City
onstage are one long sunset—filled never been a definitive answer, but I
with voices, laughter, surprise, a red imagine it’s an über-story, the collective is a nonprofit
sky alight. I‘m tempted to count down actions and desires of a nation moving
the greatest hits of the 200 shows, in one direction, then in another. What organization dedicated
do you think that story is? I’m serious.
they come back in flashes—but I won’t.
to holding great
There are too many. And practically I wish we were all together right now
every night was a different kind of to answer that question—there’d be conversations with
experience. I wish I had a dollar every food and disagreement and laughter
time someone has said, “Tonight’s show and more debate and perhaps more today’s best authors
agreement.
was the best one yet.” I’d have at least
and building the
200 dollars.
NWS was formed to be a troop, a reading and writing
That’s because of you. Our audiences. community, a neighborhood—
Our volunteers. Our donors. I’m not collaborative, creative. Art is hard. It skills of youth.
kidding. Our authors say you’re some doesn’t offer answers. It asks questions.
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RAISING WRITERS • SUPPORTING READERS & WRITERS RAISING WRITERS • SUPPORTING READERS & WRITERS
E ach year, the National Writers Series
helps hundreds of students hone
their writing and reading skills. We
2021 SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
Leslie Lee Robert & Marcy
believe exceptional writing skills create Nonfiction Award Branski Poetry Award
a path forward to an amazing future.
BROOKE KALLIE CROUCH
ESSENBERG Mancelona High School
FRONT STREET WRITERS Ellsworth Community / Front Street Writers,
Since 2012, Front Street Writers has Schools, Senior Senior
been a home for passionate student For the Love of All Things Atlas Revisited
writers. These FREE classes and Good and Holy Girl,
workshops draw students from a five- Don’t Squash the Squash
county area—students who, in many
cases, have no creative writing class in
their home district. Aspiring writers in ELEMENTARY POETRY Judith Lang William R.
grades 7-12 can find monthly virtual WORKSHOPS Journalism Award Montgomery
Writing Workshops and special Author
Each spring, we host poetry workshops DEUCALION Fiction Award
Masterclasses from visiting NWS authors,
while high schoolers are eligible to apply
at Traverse Heights and Blair Elementary SHETLER SONJA DANIELS-
schools. We believe it’s important for North Central Academy MOEHLE
for a spot in the semester-long Creative
children to learn how to creatively use their Front Street Writers, Homeschool, Junior
Writing Intensive. Students also publish
voices to express their feelings, and we’re Senior
their work in the annual NWS Literary The Thrum
so grateful to the Oleson Foundation for
Journal and recite their work at author America Divided
their support of this initiative!
events. Upcoming FSW programs can be
found at NationalWritersSeries.org.
CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND PARTICIPANTS
In addition
to our Front
Street Writers W e have awarded $56,000 in college scholarships—now up to four each year—
to 38 seniors and juniors who are passionate about writing. Scholarship
applications are available through the Grand Traverse Regional Community
classes, we
work with other Foundation.
organizations
to put together The 2021 Bob and Marcy Branski Poetry winner, Kallie Crouch, wrote a stunning
creative writing piece titled “Where the Trees and River Meet,” and we want to leave you with this
workshops thought from her:
for students,
Front Street Writers’ The trees are old but still stand strong.
often in Creative Writing
partnership with Studio instructor She wants to be like them, she says, stretching chubby fingers to
Northwestern Kevin Fitton the cloud-streaked sky.
Michigan
College and their College for Kids Time marches ever and ever on.
summer programs. The workshops are
as fanciful as writing fan fiction and as Find Kallie’s full poem, plus the work of our other scholarship winners, poetry
serious as college essay writing. workshop students, and more in the 2021 National Writers Series Literary Journal,
available at Horizon Books or on our website at NationalWritersSeries.org.
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RAISING THE LITERARY BAR SINCE 2009
• NWS broadcasts select author events on IPR, Traverse Area
Community Media (Channel 189), and YouTube, and makes
them available to public radio stations around the country.
• More than 75,000 people have attended 200 writer events
since we started in 2009.
• Awarded $56,000 in scholarships to 38 college-bound
students.
• We’ve hosted 200 author events for onstage conversations
over the past 12 years.
• Our Front Street Writers program, in partnership with
Traverse Bay Area ISD and held at the Career-Tech Center,
draws students from a five-county area who love to learn
about writing.
• 59 teams are engaged in a creative and fun Battle of the
Books. Over 300 fourth- and fifth-graders are reading and
being quizzed on nine books.
Applauding, connecting and promoting the • Each spring, we host poetry workshops at Traverse Heights
people, places and talents that bring arts, and Blair elementary schools.
• NWS creates and promotes youth creative writing classes in
culture and creativity to our communities. partnership with Northwestern Michigan College.
• Annually publish student writing of Front Street Writers,
br avo! Blair and Traverse Heights poetry workshops, and NMC
creative writing classes in the annual NWS Literary Journal.
You can find it at Horizon Books and on the NWS website.
Join the audience. • Co-founder Doug Stanton is the 2020 Stephen E. Ambrose
Oral History Award winner and past Michiganian of the Year.
• Traverse City has been a “Book City” since 2015.
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JANUARY 21, 7PM • VIRTUAL AUTHOR EVENT
DANIEL
LIEBERMAN
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The book’s engaging stories and
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FEBRUARY 24, 7 PM • VIRTUAL AUTHOR EVENT FEBRUARY 24, 7 PM • VIRTUAL AUTHOR EVENT
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Three authors. Two hundred years of history. A life worth telling—riveting
One special evening. and inspiring
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Jeffers, Wanda M. Morris, and Vanessa Riley—for a special Black History
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of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of
It is an intimate yet sweeping novel tumultuous era.
America and Crime Writers of Color. All
with all the luminescence and force
Her Little Secrets is her debut novel.
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A stellar read about hope,
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In partnership with the Traverse Area District Library Cosmos, the winner of the 2017 Golden
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B attle of the Books is a free book-based
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graders in the Grand Traverse community.
in store for
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attendance.
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Jack Cheng is a Shanghai-born, Detroit-
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schools around the world speaking with Michigan Council for Arts and
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uncovers Mint’s involvement in a top- host of Brad Meltzer’s Lost History and
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The prequel to
We
We celebrate the National Writers Series for
over 10 years of great literary conversations!
JOY HARJO
10 years of great literary conversations!
Windigo Moon
from Bob Downes
Readers say: A bestselling volume of
Michigan
• “One of the best wise and powerful poetry
books I’ve ever read.”
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WRITERS
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WRITING TOGETHER SINCE 2001 history and connection
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to the land.
fiction.” - Midwest
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Michigan Writers Cooperative Press were forcibly removed from their
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confronts the site where her people, and of American Poets Wallace Stevens
Fresh
other indigenous families, essentially Award, two NEA fellowships, and a
disappeared. Guggenheim Fellowship.
From her memory of her mother’s This event is made possible, in part,
death, to her beginnings in the native through partnerships with the Traverse
The families of the Record-Eagle Area District Library, the Dennos Museum
are proud to support the Writers Series. rights movement, to the road with her
beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines Center, and an NEA Big Read grant. NEA
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with tribal histories to create a space
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coverage, 24 hours per day to a spirituality that connects her to her
ancestors and thrums with the quiet Guest host to be announced.
Northwest Michigan families.
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her many honors include the Ruth Lily
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lesson from Harrison Ford in a restaurant. His award-winning books have
been named New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and Amazon Notable/Best books. His
book Horse Soldiers was the basis for the Chris Hemsworth movie 12 Strong.
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T he most powerful way to thank our NWS authors for sharing their stories is to buy
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choose to send their authors to a “reporting” bookstore—one that reports its sales to the of a cold case investigator
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a storied career and provides an insider Bay Area. Paul specialized in cold case
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