Southwest WI Book Festival to Feature 25 Regional Writers
Jerry Apps, Jenny Fiore, Mary Potter Kenyon, Christine DeSmet, Laurie Scheer, Erin Hart and Scott Klug.
Those are some of the 25 authors being featured at the Southwest Wisconsin Book Festival on Sept. 14 in Mineral Point.
Here’s a news release with more information and a link to the festival website, which provides even more details.
For Immediate Release
Southwest Wisconsin Book Festival
Book Signing • Walker House, Mineral Point
Networking • Tony’s Tap, Mineral Point
info@swwibookfestival.com
Amy Gevelinger, Support Specialist
5341 Sunny Ridge Road
Mineral Point, WI 53565
608.987.3370 | 608.553.1953 cell
www.swwibookfestival.com
Wisconsin Historical Writer at a Place New You
Wisconsin writer Jerry Apps, whose Old Farm: A History was the CWW 2008 winner in the Outdoor Writing category, has a new book out, Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir. The book’s publisher, Wisconsin Historical Society, has released a list of Apps’ upcoming events. Here’s the link:
See this year’s and other past CWW award winners at http://www.wiswriters.org/year.htm.
National bestselling author Jane Hamilton, who is this year’s winner of the CWW Major Achievement Award, is the keynote speaker at the CWW Annual Awards Banquet honoring this year’s winners and honorable mentions on May 11 at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. Go here for more information and registration. http://www.wiswriters.org/news.htm
Past CWW Award Winner Publishes Memoir
Madison writer Jerry Apps, who is a former winner of CWW’s Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Award Award for Outdoor Writing for his book Old Farm: A History, has a new book out.
The Wisconsin Historical Society Press has announced the publication of Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir.
Here’s the link to the Press’s announcement:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whspress/books/book.asp?book_id=408
Congratulations to Jerry.
An announcement of CWW’s winners of works published in 2012 is imminent. The news release will be posted here and on the CWW website at:
www.wiswriters.org.
Wisconsin Author Doesn't Take a Crack at Fracking
Wisconsin's venerable fiction and nonfiction writer Jerry Apps goes contemporary with his latest novel, “Tamerack River Ghost,” according to this book review: "Book Report: These tales are close to home" http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/event/article/id/103503/publisher_ID/19/
WI Poet Laureate, Historian to Judge Writing Contest
Wisconsin People & Ideas has announced that CWW award winners and distinguished writers Bruce Dethlefsen and Jerry Apps will judge its 2013 poetry and fiction contests. Contest entries are accepted from Sept. 15 – Dec. 15, so there’s still time to get entries submitted. The contests are open to all Wisconsin residents and students. Top prize includes $500, publication in Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine and a one-week residency at Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts in Mineral Point.
Details are at http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazine/writing-contests
Information about CWW’s 2012 contests and awards is as www.wiswriters.org.