Council for Wisconsin Writers

Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022

Geoffrey Collins

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Authors, Poets to Read from Their Works

Here are a couple of events featuring Wisconsin poets and authors sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters:
FREE POETRY AND FICTION CONTEST READING
Friday, October 18, 5:00–7:00 pm at
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, Madison
Join Wisconsin People & Ideas editor Jason A. Smith at the Wisconsin Book Festival for a reading by the 2013 poetry and fiction contest winners. Selected as the best from over four hundred entries, featured poets Geoffrey Collins (Marshall), William Quist (River Falls), and C.E. Perry (Madison), and authors Amy Baker (Blue Mounds), Rudy Koshar (Madison), and Geoffrey Collins (Marshall) will read their prize-winning works. Free and open to the public.
AN EVENING WITH MAX GARLAND 

Friday, October 18, 6:30–9:30 pm at the Eau Claire Golf & Country Club, Altoona
Join Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland for a celebratory cocktail reception and three-course dinner during the Chippewa Valley Book Festival. For more information or to register, please contact the L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library Reference Desk at 715-839-5004.

More about and for Wisconsin writers at www.wiswriters.org

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Wisconsin Fiction Contest Winners Announced

Congratulations to Wisconsin People & Ideas 2013 Fiction Contest winners:

  • Amy Baker of Blue Mounds, First place for “Snow Day”
  • Rudy Koshar of Madison, Second place for “Fallen Magi”
  • Geoffrey Collins of Marshall, Third place for  “A Day in December”

Read more about these winners, those who received honorable mentions and the contest at http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/content/wisconsin-people-ideas-2013-fiction-contest-winners-announced

More information and news for and about Wisconsin writers at CWW’s website, www.wiswriters.org.