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GREAT NORTHERN FESTIVAL OF WORDS BOOK FAIR CALL FOR BOOK PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS. LSW invites local and regional publishers and authors to exhibit and sell their books at the first Great Northern Festival of Words on Saturday, April 22, 2006, 10 am to 5 pm at the Depot Great Hall in downtown Duluth. This unique event will feature publisher exhibits, readings, panel discussions, book signings, and literary magazines--all to celebrate our regional literary community. The event is free and open to the public. This is an excellent and inexpensive opportunity to display and sell your work to the public. Full table fees are $100, and $50 for half tables. Early registration is recommended as table space is limited. Registration deadline is January 10, 2006. To reserve your table, please visit www.lakesuperiorwriters.org and click on "Book Fair" for a downloadable registration form. Or write and request a registration form from Lake Superior Writers, 1301 Rice Lake Road, Suite 132, Duluth, MN 55811.

For more info about the Great Northern Festival of Words April 19-22, 2006 - including a presentation by NPR FRESH AIR host TERRY GROSS, a film screen writing presentation and discussion, and a Spirit Lake Poetry series reading by Denise Sweet, the 2004-2008 Wisconsin State Poet Laureate - visit www.lakesuperiorwriters.org

GREAT NORTHERN FESTIVAL OF WORDS FUNDRAISING NEWS. During November, LSW has raised $2035 in individual donations for the April 2006 GREAT NORTHERN FESTIVAL OF WORDS. LSW would like to thank the following donors: Martha and Johannes Aas, Steve and Barb Adams, Martha Alworth, Katherine Basham, Cynthia Bayer, Cal and Molly Benson, Deb and Joel Cooper, Katharine Coventry, Erika Eberhardt, Terry and Bob Falsani, Julia Gillett, Jill Hinners, Katharine Johnson, Claire Kirch, Catherine and Joel Koemptgen, Lise Lunge-Larsen, Jill and Bob Lyman, Mary Melander, Jan Murphy, Donna Pegors, Margi Preus, Cheryl and Hugh Reitan, Candice Richards, Donna Schilling, Emme and Jerry Sjoberg, Francine Sterle, Barton Sutter, Ann Treacy, Gail Trowbridge, Connie Wanek and Phil Dentinger, and Shirley Wuchter.

Thank you to these individuals who made in-kind donations: Sarah Chapman, Mara and Bob Hart, Claudia Pollard, Justin Powers, Bernadette Savage, Donna Schilling, and Dale Taran (Lake Aire Bottle Shoppe).

The Festival of Words has also received support from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, The College of St. Scholastica, Northern Lights Bookstore, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Depot.

Dec. 15, Thur 11:30 am - LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS’ SQUARE TABLE meets in the Annex Room (downstairs) At Sara's Table, 1902 E. 8th Street. This month, we’ll discuss the use of metaphor. This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow writers, discuss your projects, and talk about writers and writing. All are welcome - bring a friend!

LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members

NAOMI MUSCH announces the December publication of her historical/inspirational romance book "The Casket Girl" by PublishAmerica. The book is available through most Internet book sellers and in local bookstores.

DIANA RANDOLPH of Drummond, WI has had a series of "Nuts and Bolts of Poetry" columns published in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets quarterly publication "The Museletter." The fifth and final column will appear in the winter issue and may be read on the website: <www.wfop.org> Diana read her poetry at her "Beacons of the Earth and Sky" art show reception in October at Jaques Art Center in Aitkin, Minnesota; and during the open mike for Second Sunday Poets at the Drummond Public Library in November. One of her poems from her chapbook "In the Heart of the Forest" was read by a keynote speaker at the National Writing Project Conference in Malta.

MARY ELLEN RYALL, member of Solon Springs St. Croix Writer Group, was published in the November 2005 issue of Senior Focus. Her article "Seniors Promote Good Health Through Tia Chi" was highlighted in the monthly newsletter.

AREA LITERARY EVENTS

Dec 2, Fri 1 pm - Linda Glaser signs “Bridge to America.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 2, Fri 3 pm - Linda Glaser signs "Bridge to America." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 2, Fri 7 pm - Pajama Story Time with Winnie the Pooh. Young readers are invited to wear pjs and bring a pillow or blanket. Stories, games & fun. Free. JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 10 am - Join Winnie the Pooh for brunch in the Beecroft Café. Cost is $4.95 per child. Reservations and pre-payment required. JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 11 am - Cheng-Khee Chee signs “Noel.” Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 3, Sat 12 pm - Shawn Perich signs “Wild Minnesota.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 2 pm - Illustrator Cheng-Khee Chee signs “Noel.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 12 pm - Ellen Moore Anderson signs “As Long As The Moon Shall Rise.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 3, Sat 12 pm - Brian Freeman signs "Immoral." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 3, 1 pm - Mark Munger signs "Doc the Bunny and Other Short Tales -Further Stories of Living Out." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 3, Sat 2:30 pm - Brian Freeman signs “Immoral.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 2:30 pm - Shawn Perich signs “Wild Minnesota.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 3, Sat 2:30 pm - Gary & Eve Wallinga sign “Waterfalls of Minnesota’s North Shore.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 3, Sat 2:30 pm - Shawn Perich signs “Wild Minnesota.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 3, Sat 3 pm - Linda Glaser signs “Bridge to America.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 3:30 pm - Naomi Musch signs “The Casket Girl.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 3, Sat 4 pm - Booksigning - Shawn Perich signs "Wild Minnesota." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 4, Sun 1 pm - Illustrator Cheng-Khee Chee signs “Noel.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 6, Tue 6:30 pm - In-Store Book Club discusses “Wicked” by Gregory Maguire. *Special location off-site/dinner. Call for more information. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 7, 14, 21, 28 (Wednesdays) open mic at Beaner's Central, 7-10pm, Beaners, 324 N Central Ave, Duluth, 218-624-5957 www.beanerscentral.com

Dec 9, Fri 3 pm - Bruce Henricksen signs “Ticket To A Lonely Town.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 10, Sat 2 to 4 pm - Georganne Hunter will play live music and sell her CDs. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 10, Sat 11 am - Regional children’s author Mary Casanova signs “Cecile” and “One Dog Canoe.” Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 10, Sat 12 pm - Bruce Henricksen signs “Ticket to a Lonely Town.” JW Beecroft Books, 3631 Tower Ave., Superior, WI, 218-394-2665, www.jwbeecroft.com.

Dec 10, Sat 12 pm - author/photographer Paul Sundberg signs “North Shore Vision.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 10, Sat 12 pm - Dennis Anderson signs "Goodnight Everybody?and Be Kind." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 10, Sat 2 pm - Ellen Moore Anderson signs "As Long as the Moon Shall Rise." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 10, Sat 2:30 pm - Arvid Williams and Bonnie Shalbetter sign “Sophie’s Hawk.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 10, Sat 3 PM - Shirley Wuchter and Donna Schilling sign "Growing Up On Memory Lane." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 11, Sun 3 pm - Beatrice Ojakangas signs “Great Old-Fashioned American Recipes” and other cookbooks. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 11, Sun 3:30 pm - Jay Gilbertson signs "Moon Over Madeline Island." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 14, Wed 7 pm - Dennis Anderson signs “Good Night Everybody?And Be Kind.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 15, Thur 4 pm - UMD Professor of English, Joseph Maiolo will read Truman Capote's, "A Christmas Memory" in the Weber Music Hall on the UMD campus. The event is free and open to everyone. Refreshments will be served after the reading.

Dec 15, Thur 6 pm - Peter Rennebohm signs “Blue Springs.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 16, Fri 4 pm - Peggy Anderson will sign “Dear Auntie, Why Me?” Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 17, Sat 12 pm - Deborah Gelbach signs “Minnesota: Shaped by the Land.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Dec 17, Sat - Live music at Northern Lights. 12-2 pm Barb Hanka, kantele. 2-3 pm Wendy Grethen, dulcimer. 3-4 pm Kathy McTavish, cello. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 17, Sat 1 pm - Eve and Gary Wallinga sign "Waterfalls of Minnesota's North Shore." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 17, Sat 2:30 pm - Booksigning - Deborah Gelbach signs “Minnesota: Shaped by the Land.” Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 307 Canal Park Dr., 218-722-5267, www.norlights.com.

Dec 22, Thur 2 pm - Ross Bernstein signs three new titles: “Beyond the Goalcrease,” “More Gopher Hockey,” and “The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

WRITING GROUPS

LSW WRITING GROUP UPDATE
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CREATIVE NON-FICTION - Meets at 6:30 pm the first Monday of the month at Barnes & Noble café, from September to May. Open to new members. Contact Gail at 728-1354 or e-mail gailwill@chatermi.net. She sends an e-mail to everyone on the list every month. For summer meeting times and locations, contact Gail.

FICTION/POETRY - Meets from 6-8 pm on the third Wednesday of the month, from September to May at the New London Café, 4721 E. Superior St. Contact Jill Hinners (218-728-3154) or Cheryl Reitan (218-728-3154, creitan@d.umn.edu) for information.

MEMOIR - Meets from 3-5 pm on the third Sunday of every month at Chester Creek Café, at Sara’s Table (downstairs room). Contact Mara Hart (218-728-3154, mhart2@d.umn.edu) for information.

WRITING FOR CHILDREN - Meets at 6:30 pm on the third Monday of the month at J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, 3631 Tower Avenue. For more information call 715-394-2665.

SPECULATIVE FICTION GROUP - (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and/or Horror) led by Lacey Louwagie. Meets at 7 pm on the fourth Monday of every month at Chester Creek Café. People interested in joining can contact Lacey at the_real_sedeara@yahoo.com.

NEWS / CONFERENCES / SUBMISSIONS/ OPPORTUNITIES

RESOURCES: For information on additional contests, retreats, publications and more see this new webpage: http://www.lakesuperiorwriters.org/lswresources.html

NEW WEBSITE - Minnesota Literature has launched a website at www.minnesotaliterature.org. Check it out for links to Minnesota literary magazines, events, publishers and other resources.

CALLING ALL POETS - The Reader Weekly is now accepting poetry submissions. Guidelines: Simultaneous and previously published poems acceptable as long as they know where the poem has appeared so they can give that publication credit. Send no more than 5 poems. Submission must include your name and address, and phone number if available. Poetry submitted via email is preferred. This will ensure it is printed in the same format in which you wrote it. No changes will be made to your poem. Email poems to: nreader@cpinternet.com. In the subject line write Attn: Deb Ortman, poetry editor. Poems should either be attached as Microsoft Word documents (no Word Perfect formats please) or pasted as text in the body of the email. You may submit poems by mail in typed, standard format to the Reader Weekly at P.O. Box 16122, Duluth, MN 55816. Handwritten material will not be accepted. Include SASE if you wish your material to be returned. Pornographic or blatantly violent or vulgar language will not be printed. Poems longer than 40 lines, experimental or avant garde work will be held to especially high standards. No cliché - trite, contrived or overly sentimental poems. Comments not usually made on individual submissions. No payment for poems submitted.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announces its ANNUAL SPRING WRITERS FESTIVAL April 28-30, 2006. The three-day event is a comprehensive writing conference including guest speakers, agent selection classes and question and answer sessions. There are also informational seminars on how to get published and several crafting workshops. Manuscript review panels and representatives from top literary agencies are available. More info to come. Questions? Contact Anne O’Meara at 414-227-3311 or aomeara@uwm.edu.

INTERMEDIATE POETRY CLASS OFFERED AT LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE - Amy Jo Swing will be teaching an Intermediate Poetry Writing course at Lake Superior College spring semester. The class will meet on Thursday nights from 6-9 pm Jan 19 to May 11. The class will be workshop-style, with participants bringing poems to read and share and learning more about the craft of poetry. Contact Amy Jo at a.swing@lsc.edu or 218-733-7670.

CALL TO WRITERS FROM NORTHERN LIGHTS BOOKS AND GIFTS: How has a book changed your life? What if that book were banned? Northern Lights is accepting original writing of 3 minutes or less on one or both of the above questions, to be read at “Light Up the Night.” The event will take place Thursday, January 12, 7-9 pm at the Depot Great Hall. The evening will focus on a love of literature, freedom of expression through writing, and education about banned books. There will be music, a cash bar, games, and other fun. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume, dressed “literarily,” and prizes will be given to all who dress up. Spots for the evening will be filled on a first come basis. Each participating writer is asked to read his/her original work but can also have someone else read. Call or email the store to reserve a slot - there will be limited space! Northern Lights Books and Gifts, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth MN 55802, 218-722-5267 norlight@norlights.com

Spirit Lake Poetry Series continues: February 18, 2006: St. David's Day Open Reading; March 25, 2006: Poets Ellie Schoenfeld, Deborah Cooper, Ann Niedringhaus, Anne Simpson, and Candace Ginsburg; April 22, 2006: Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Denise Sweet. All performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Somers Lounge at the College of St. Scholastica.

LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS INFORMATION

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Lake Superior Writers Calendar

THIS CALENDAR is a benefit of your membership in Lake Superior Writers. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the literary arts. We welcome information from you regarding events, classes, kudos or announcements to be included in upcoming calendars.We reserve the right to edit all submissions.

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