Emma Palova interviews Suzanne Sunshower Click on the triangle below to start listening https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pudrwjquq6n88mdj/audio1315549325.m4a At sixty, after a string of losses and a lifetime of making art and words, I did the impulsive, crazy thing: I moved into a 50-year-old hunting camper tucked away in the Michigan woods. I call…
by Ernest Dempsey For the well-known novelist Sue Harrison of Pickford, Michigan, this summer translates into book bliss. Between the final week of May and mid-September, Harrison is scheduled to tour eight libraries and a learning center in various towns in the Upper Peninsula region to participate in workshops, book…
Sue Harrison’s Rescuing Crash, the Good Dog is a novel for middle-grade readers. The book engages young readers with a heartwarming story of dog adoption from a local shelter. Crash, the eponymous Australian shepherd, is brought home to 11-year-old Britta by her single Dad as a birthday gift. As Crash becomes a…
Local Beer Guidebook Author to Visit UP Brewpubs and Craft Breweries This June, Jon C. Stott, award-winning writer of beer travel books, will be visiting brewpubs and craft breweries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to celebrate the publication of his new book, Yooper Ale Trails (published by Modern History Press, Ann…
Jon C. Stott, author of the new book Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Modern History Press, 2023), will be visiting local brewpubs and craft breweries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from June 8 to June 28, 2023. Stott will visit 9 breweries in UP and…
Ann Dallman’s children’s novel Cady and the Bear Necklace by Modern History Press won the 2022 State History Award in the Children & Youth category. For the Modern History Press, the Cady series serves two main goals of the press-focusing more locally on issues in its home state of Michigan,…
Digging deep into the past, U.P. author & historian Mikel Classen uncovers hidden stories in his newest release “True Tales- The Forgotten History of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.” Stories of piracy, lost gold mines, the origin of the Copper Boom, profiles of people of note, Starvation on Isle Royale, and one…
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to A Book Launch Virtual Event with Christine Stark and her new book, Carnival Lights and Mona Susan Power and her new book, A Council of Dolls. Chris Stark is an award-winning writer, organizer, and researcher with Ojibwe, Cherokee, and European ancestry. Her…
A Room of One’s Own welcomes local poet R.B. Simon, author of The Good Truth, and Lambda Literary Award finalist Chris Stark, author of Carnival Lights, for a virtual conversation on Crowdcast! “The Good Truth, the fiercely validating debut from R.B. Simon, is a blazing manifesto of claiming identities within…
*Time sensitive! Starting soon! Creative Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World an 8-week multi-genre creative writing class with Anya Achtenberg March 24 through May 12 For writers of fiction, memoir/creative nonfiction, poetry, essay, hybrid forms, for an extraordinary expansion of creativity in writing as one writes more…
On March 2nd, 2021, The Donna Seebo Show hosted Patricia Byrnes to talk about her memoir “TRISH“. Patricia Byrnes’s life began with being reared by deaf parents during an era when the deaf community was shunned rather than supported. Poverty, alcoholism, incest and poor parenting were the underpinnings of Patricia’s…
You mean you’ve never done cocaine?” my friend, Lisa, asked incredulously. We were sitting across from one another at Gryphon Coffee in Wayne, PA. I shook my head, no. “Well, I have and you managed to capture the experience perfectly.” I’d given Lisa an advance copy of my forthcoming book,…
In Episode 2, you’ll meet Diane Wing, MA and Chrissy, Shih Tzu extraordinaire, and hear about how loss can lead to love. You’ll receive valuable insights about letting go, creating connection, living a spirit-led life, and not taking it all so seriously. This is a story not only of healing…
by Ernest Dempsey Author, speaker, and visual artist Christine Stark will present at the United Nations panel on “Violence and Torture against Women and Girls in Sex Trafficking: Educating Service Providers” on March 12, 2019. Held at The Armenian Centre, Guild Hall, in NYC, the panel is part of UN…
The MidWest Mixed Community Spotlight Series features local artists, educators, and leaders reflecting on their Mixed or Transracial identities. Sherry Quan Lee Author of Chinese Black Bird, How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life, Love Imagined: a mixed raced memoir (Minnesota Book Award Finalist); and…
Modern History Press is proud to announce that its latest fiction title Louisiana Catch by author and speaker Sweta Srivastava Vikram has been nominated for a Voices of the Year (VOTY) Award at BlogHer. With its Women-Inspiring-Women mission, BlogHer is a women-centered movement of both the written and the spoken word by…
by Attiya Abbass In conversation with the award-winning author and brains behind books like Saffron Dreams, Beyond the Cayenne Wall, My Friend Suhana, A Manual for Marco and Rani in Search of A Rainbow It is a success of a writer if their inscriptions prepossess a power to impact even…
by Sweta Vikram Creativity takes vulnerability. Creativity takes courage. Creativity takes honesty. As Brené Brown so eloquently says, “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on…
For Immediate Release Contact: Tyler Tichelaar (906) 226-1543 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Holds 21st Annual Conference: Publishing & Book Marketing Industry to Be Explored MARQUETTE, MI (April 15, 2018) -In its constant commitment to informing regional authors and publishers of the latest changes in the publishing world…