E-Calendar December 2008
LSW Activities and Events | LSW Kudos | Area Events | News/Contest/Submissions | Lake Superior Writers Information | About the LSW Calendar |
Compiled by LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS

LSW member Phil Fitzpatrick is the e-calendar editor. Send your info to him at calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org.

LSW ACTIVITIES AND NEWS.

[Editor’s note: All submissions of upcoming
events—one-time events and regularly scheduled
events—must include in this order day, date, time, name of
event, specific location, name of organization or merchant,
contact person, and contact information if available. Events
are arranged by date rather than lumped together by store,
agency, or person. Normal Ariel 10-point is the font used in
the newsletter. No html formatting is used. Proofreading is
greatly appreciated. Remember that this is a calendar and
not a newsletter, so brevity is important. Thank you.]


** Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7:00 pm - LSW and the UW-Superior
Writing Center invite everyone to attend Twelve Below Zero,
a reading and book-signing event with Superior, Wisconsin,
fiction writer Anthony Bukoski. Bukoski is a Professor in
the English Department at UW-Superior, and we celebrate his
lifetime of writing about the magic to be found in the
everyday world of Superior. We particularly celebrate the
release by Holy Cow! Press of an updated, revised version of
Dr. Bukoski's original short story collection, Twelve Below
Zero. Enjoy music by Terrol Cousineau and Rachel Nelson.
Dessert,coffee, and tea will be served, Multicultural
Center, 232 Old Main, UW-Superior, Belknap and Catlin,
Superior. Free and open to the public. People may park free
in any of the lots, except for the reserved lots and spaces,
meters, and handicapped spaces (unless they have a permit).

LSW MONTHLY GROUPS

Editor’s Note: Since there are at least
two or three different sources for “monthly group”
information, all monthly groups must submit announcements
each month in order to be included in the LSW e-calendar. A
belated announcement will be mailed out within the week if
the correct information for November’s groups can be
submitted. Thank you.

LSW Monthly Groups

** Mon, Dec 8 at 6:30 pm The Children's Writers Group will
meet at Amazing Grace Bakery in Canal Park. The writing
prompt for this month -- a favorite childhood Christmas
memory.

** Wednesday, Dec 17 (third Wednesday), Fiction/Poetry
Writing Group, 6 -8 pm at Chester Creek Cafe, 1902 E. 8th
Street. Contact Jill Hinners (349-6431) or Cheryl Reitan
(creitan@d.umn.edu, 218-728-3154).

** Thursday, Dec 18 11:30 am The Writers’ Square
downstairs at Chester Creek Cafe

LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members back to top 


** Two poems by MARK MAIRE, "Shift" and "This Time," have
been published in the just-released third issue of the
Minnetonka Review. Information about the magazine can be
found at http://www.minnetonkareview.com.

** Mary Ellen Ryall's article Holiday Saturday was published
in Washburn County Register on 20 November 2008. Ryall's
article “Monarch Butterfly's Biological Clock
Discovered” was published in The Butterfly Observer,
Cornwall Butterfly Conservation Newsletter No. 41, Autumn
2008, United Kingdom.

AREA LITERARY EVENTS back to top

** Tuesday, Dec 2 In-Store Book Group at 6:30 pm - Little
Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Meeting at Green Mill, RSVP by Monday 12/1 @ 722-5267

** Thursday, Dec 4 at noon, Icelandic Mystery Author - The
Icelandic National League of North America presents
Icelandic author, Yrsa Sigurdardottir. Yrsa will be the
featured program for the International Brown Bag Series at
the University of Minnesota Duluth at noon in the Library
Fourth Floor Rotunda. For info call: 218-726-7493. She will
also read at 7 pm on December 4 in the Lakeside Room of the
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 1325 45th Avenue East.
Yrsa works as a civil engineer in Reykjavik, and is the
technical manager of one of the largest hydro-construction
projects in Europe. "Last Rituals," (in English) her first
adult mystery novel, has been bestseller in Iceland. For
info: Rosemary Guttormsson, 218-728-4037 or
rosemary@chartermi.net

** Saturday, Dec 6, 12-1pm Book signing: Margi Preus The
Peace Bell at Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park Drive,
Duluth, MN 55802

** Saturday, Dec 6, 2-3 pm Book signing: Tony Dierckins
Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth’s
Aerial Bridge at Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park
Drive, Duluth, MN 55802

** Saturday, Dec 6 is Educator Appreciation Shopping Day at
Barnes & Noble - 25% off most items for teachers, 10% off
CDs and DVDs. Holiday music at 10:00 AM performed by the
Duluth Central High School String Quartet at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 786-0710

** Saturday, Dec 6 11:00 am Story Time and Book Signing with
Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson Reading & signing Agate:
What Good is a Moose? at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600
Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

** Saturday, Dec 6 12:00 Noon - Book Signing Peter Rennebohm
Buried Lies at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk
Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

** Saturday, Dec 6 3:00 pm - Book Signing Jim Heffernan
Cooler Near the Lake: Fifty-Two Favorites From Thirty-Four
Years of Deadlines at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600
Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

** Sunday, Dec 7 at 3:30 pm - Book Release & Reception:
Louis Jenkins European Shoes: Travel & Poems at the Quaker
Meeting House, 1801 E First St

** Sunday, Dec 7 1:00 pm - Book Signing Tony Dierckins
Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth's
Aerial Bridge at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller
Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

** Sunday, Dec 7 3:00 pm - Book signing Anthony Bukoski
Twelve Below Zero, and North of the Port at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 786-0710

** Sunday, Dec 7 from 3-5 pm – artist’s reception for an
exhibit called " I'm Still Here " is opening at Peace
Church, 1111 north 11th Ave in Duluth. It is a collaboration
by two Twin Cities artists with portraits of Alzheimer's
patients in many moods as well as images of loyal and loving
caregivers. Its purpose is to allay some of the fears of
dementia, even while acknowledging the reality. Photographs
by Laura Crosby, portrait and documentary photographer, are
paired with poems by Anne Simpson, former Duluth resident.
The public is welcome.

** Sunday, Dec 7 at 12 - 2 pm Book signing *John Beargrease:
Legend of Minnesota's North Shore* (Holy Cow! Press, 2009)
by Daniel Lancaster - The Bookstore at Fitger's,downstairs
at Fitgers on E. Superior St., Duluth.

** Tuesday, Dec 9 at 7:00 pm Young Reader's Book Group -
discussing Hatchet by Gary Paulsen at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 786-0710

** Saturday, Dec 13 at 2:00 pm. Lost Hills Books hosts a
poetry reading featuring Deborah Cooper and Barton Sutter at
the Snoodle Ceramics Gallery, 7107 Grand Ave in Duluth. The
reading is in conjunction with the gallery's Holiday
Sale--free admission, free treats. Info at 218-310-8903

** Saturday, Dec 13 at 1-2 pm Book signing: Jim Cordes
Treasures of Minnesota’s North Shore and Gunflint Trail at
Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN
55802

** Saturday, Dec 13 at 2-3 pm Book signing: Anthony Bukoski
Twelve Below Zero & North of the Port at Northern Lights
Books, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 12-1 pm Book signing: Jim Gilbert Jim
Gilbert's Minnesota Nature Notes at Northern Lights Books,
307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 1-2 pm Book signing: Phil Fitzpatrick A
Beautiful Friendship: The Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf at
Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN
55802

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 2-3 pm Book signing: Daniel Lancaster
John Beargrease: Legend of Minnesota’s North Shore at
Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN
55802

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 3-4 pm Book signing: Dr. Z Willie
Walleye: Underwater Adventures at Northern Lights Books, 307
Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 4-6 pm - Phil Fitzpatrick will read
from his newly published book, A Beautiful Friendship: The
Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf at Calyx Press Duluth located at
the Northern Prints Gallery, 318 N. 14th Avenue E in Duluth.

** Sunday, Dec 14 at 2:00 pm - Book Signing Jim Gilbert
Minnesota Nature Notes at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600
Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

** Wednesday, Dec 17 at 7 pm: Carol Connolly Reading Series:
Sheila Packa reads at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave S,
Minneapolis

** Thursday, Dec 18 at 6-8 pm - Holiday Open House
Featuring: MPR Host, Cathy Wurzer Tales of the Road:
Highway 61 at Northern Lights Books, 307 Canal Park Drive,
Duluth, MN 55802

** Friday, Dec 19 at 7 pm, Celebrate the Solstice at Duluth
Art Institute, Lincoln Center, 2229 W. 2nd St, Duluth, and
celebrate live art! Sheila Packa, poet, with the Cosmic Pit
Orchestra (Kathy McTavish, cellist, and Richie Townsend,
electric guitar), Mary Plaster, (visual artist and creator
of large scale puppets), and Sammy Macon (harmonica wizard).

** Saturday, Dec 20 at 2:00 pm - Book Signing Ross
Bernstein The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules, Slap Shot
Original, and Sixty Years & Sixty Heroes at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 786-0710

** Sunday, Dec 21 at 1:00 pm - Winter Solstice Book Signing
- Prose Poet Louis Jenkins European Shoes, and North of the
Cities at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk
Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 786-0710

Workshops/Submissions/Conferences/Opportunities/Deadlines back to top 

** Spirit Lake Poetry Series is developing an email
notification list. Sign up to receive an email reminder of
upcoming Spirit Lake events. To get on the list, send an
email to: spiritlakepoetry@gmail.com Put "add me" in the
subject line. We promise not to junk up your inbox!

** The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, working with the
Center for the Study of Art and Community, invites your
input about the challenges you face as an artist here in our
region. This research, part of a larger inquiry sponsored
by the McKnight Foundation, is designed to help the Arowhead
Regional Arts Council and the Foundation understand how
better to serve the artists in the area.

We want to thank the many artists who have already taken the
survey and encourage more regional artists to do the same.
It is a short survey which should only take about 10 minutes
to complete. Please click on the following link to take the
survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fVA0EdpESHkkHBTBtjIifQ_3d_3d

Your responses to the few brief questions in the survey will
be extremely valuable to the Arrowhead Regional Arts
Council, The McKnight Foundation, and Center for the Study
of Art and Community as we plan for how to better serve
individual artists.

The deadline to complete the survey has been extended to
Friday, December 5, 2008. Thank you for your help and time.

** Nominations are open for the 21st annual Northeastern
Minnesota Book Awards, to be presented by the University of
Minnesota Duluth Library and Friends of the Duluth Public
Library on Sunday, May 17, 2009, on the campus of UMD. Lake
Superior Writers will be collaborating with the UMD Library
to present a writing workshop, the NEMBA book fair, and
readings by nominated authors.

The award categories have been increased this year from four
to six, with the addition of separate awards for Poetry and
Memoir/Creative Nonfiction. The other continuing categories
include General Nonfiction, Fiction, Art/Photography, and
Children's Literature.

Prizes will include $300 and a plaque for the winner in each
category. Books receiving honorable mention will be
recognized with a plaque. To nominate a book, visit the
NEMBA web site at
http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba, complete a nomination form,
and send it along with one copy of each nominated book and
the $25 entry fee for each title to UMD Library, c/o Brenda
Bonnema, 416 Library Dr., Duluth, MN 55812.

For information, call 218-726-6843 or e-mail
bbonnema@d.umn.edu. Nominations must be postmarked or
delivered to the UMD Library by February 1, 2009.The awards
celebration on May 17--including a book fair, readings by
nominated authors, featured speaker, and awards
presentation--is free and open to the public.

LSW INFORMATION back to top

Lake Superior Writers prohibits discrimination in its programs, membership, and board of directors participation on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status.

ABOUT THE LSW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE LSW MEMBERSHIP Member Involvement: We value our membership and encourage your involvement in LSW. An annual meeting for LSW members is held in the spring. All members are invited to participate. Financial reports and a summary of the year's activities are presented to the membership at the annual meeting for review. The LSW board meets monthly throughout the year. Members are invited to attend board meetings, review minutes, and look over financial statements.

Lake Superior Writers Calendar back to top

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.

Your editor for this issue of the e-calendar was LSW member and volunteer Phil Fitzpatrick. Thank you for contributing and for reading. Address all calendar events to calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org. Address all concerns or questions about the calendar to Phil Fitzpatrick c/o pfitzpa@charter.net.