Council for Wisconsin Writers

Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022

Wisconsin Writers Association

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CWW-Supported Grant Assists Lake Reading Series

The Lake Reading Series at Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac WI

A Night of Midwestern Voices featuring Bonnie Jo Campbell, with C. Kubasta is scheduled for

Thursday, Feb. 22. Bar Opens 6 pm, Open Mic 6:30, Reading begins after the Open Mic

Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will headline a night of Midwestern literature. More information available at https://www.thelmaarts.org/event/bonnie-jo-campbell-with-c-kubasta/

Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels Once Upon a River, a National Bestseller, and Q Road. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP prize for short fiction; and her most recent collection, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. Her story “The Smallest Man in the World” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and her story “The Inventor, 1972” was awarded the 2009 Eudora Welty Prize from Southern Review. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

 

  1. Kubasta will read from her new novella, Girling, a winning selection of the Driftless Unsolicited Novella prize from Brain Mill Press, which has been described as “a transcendent novella seated in the body that documents and celebrates sexuality, change, and the vital role of female friendship.” Kubasta teaches at Marian University, and writes poetry and fiction.

 

This reading is supported by Marian University, the Fond du Lac Public Library, Brain Mill Press, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Wisconsin Writers Association, and Wisconsin Humanities Council.

Funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Wisconsin Humanities Council supports and creates programs that use history, culture, and discussion to strengthen community life for everyone in Wisconsin.

More information about the Council for Wisconsin Writers is at www.wiswriters.org.

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WWA First Chapter Award Winner Announced

Congratulations to Wisconsin writer Gary Jones for recognition for his non-fiction book Gentleman’s Dresser in the Wisconsin Writers Association (WWA) First Chapter competition. Details are here:  http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-Lit-News-c-2014-05-14-115102.114136-Pulse-and-Door-County-Living-Writer-Wins-Award.html

Also, check out the Council for Wisconsin Writers website at www.wiswriters.org for news about  CWW contest winners and more.

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Janesville Resident Wins 2 WWA Honors

The Wisconsin Writers Association honored Greg Peck — no, not that one, the other one — with two awards last month. Here’s a news story with the details:

Marshall native earns two writing honors

http://www.hngnews.com/waterloo_marshall/news/local/article_2bc74942-366b-11e3-9f97-001a4bcf6878.html

More information about and for Wisconsin writers — including guidelines and entry forms for CWW contests — is at www.wiswriters.org. Please visit!

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Novel-In-Progress Bootcamp Announced

Wisconsin Writers Association Vice President Dave Rank has provided the following information about that group’s Novel-In-Progress Bootcamp:

Spend 6 days focused on your book…

Are you ready to focus exclusively on your manuscript for 6 full days and nights?

The Novel-In-Progress Bookcamp, sponsored by the Wisconsin Writers Association, is an all-inclusive workshop and retreat for writers working on any stage of a book from outline to final edits. All fiction genres and creative nonfiction works are welcome. Hosted by published authors, editors and writing instructors, with a guest visit by literary agents, the Bookcamp is designed to help you advance your book to publication.

Open to both WWA members and nonmembers, the Bookcamp is scheduled for May 26-June 1, 2013 at the Cedar Valley Center and Spa, a 100-acre rural retreat and small conference center 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

An early registration discount for both WWA members and nonmembers continues until January 31, 2013. Full prices for both WWA members and nonmember writers go into effect the following day. Both single and double room options available, although we can only guarantee a single room to the first 13 registrants.

Leading our instructional staff is Philip Martin, book editor and writing instructor, and Reed Farrel Coleman, award-winning mystery writer and writing instructor from New York. Also scheduled to assist our registrants are literary agents from Red Sofa Literary, St. Paul, Minn., best-selling novelist Karen McQuestion, and several other professional writers.

For more information on the N-I-P Bookcamp, contact Dave Rank, Bookcamp director, vpres@wwa.org or 262-334-8790. Or go to our webpage/blog,www.nipbookcamp.wordpress.com or visit our Facebook page,www.facebook.com/#!/NIPBookcamp.

And please don’t forget to catch up on Council for Wisconsin Writers doings, including its 2012 writing awards contests, which are now open for submissions. www.wiswriters.org.

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Up-Coming Writer-Related Events

The following list of events is shamelessly lifted from the most recent issue of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators newsletter:

Mark your calendars for these upcoming Wisconsin book festivals:

 September 28-30, 2012: Wisconsin Writers Association fall conference in Wisconsin Rapids. Miranda Paul will give a presentation. See the web site at www.wiwrite.org.

 Saturday, September 29, 2012: 2012 Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival and annual Book Fair, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Edgerton High School. SCBWI-Wisconsin will have a booth where we [Wisconsin SCBWI] can sell members’ books. Volunteer if you can help staff the booth. More information is at edgertonbookfestival.com/Book_Fair.html.

 October 12-14, 2012: Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. For kids, teens, families, and booklovers of all ages. The theme for this year’s Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival is Family. [Wisconsin SCBWI] Members Lisa Albert, Ilsa Bick, Jacqueline Houtman, and Rebecca Hogue Wojahn are speaking. See the web site at sheboyganchildrensbookfestival.org.

 November 7-11: The Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison will feature a number of Wisconsin SCBWI members, including W.H. Beck, Ilsa J. Bick, Bridget Birdsall,
Kathleen Ernst, Janet Halfmann, E. M. Kokie, Pat Schmatz, and Kashmira Sheth. For more details, see www.wisconsinbookfestival.org.

 February 7-9, 2013: The Wisconsin State Reading Association Annual Convention, Frontier Airline Center, Milwaukee. The theme is “Literacy Lifts Lives –Heart…Mind…Voice.” Exhibit viewing times are Thursday, February 7, from 7:30 to 4:30 and Friday, February 8, from 7:30 to 3:00. SCBWI-Wisconsin will have a booth where we can distribute members’ literature and sell members’ books. Watch for information on sending your literature for distribution; volunteer if you can help staff the booth.