E-Calendar February 2009
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.]

** Sunday, Feb 8 from 3-5 pm. Sweet Sweet Words. Please come
to the Lake Superior Writers Book Fair and Reading at the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 835 College St.,
Duluth, MN. Rub elbows with local literati, buy books for
Valentine's gifts, listen to short readings, and enjoy sweet
refreshments. Join the local writing community! For more
information, call 218.722.3094. If you would like to read
and or sell books, please contact sheila@sheilapacka.com

** LSW announces its first-ever playwriting competition. See
“Submissions, etc.” at the end of this calendar.

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.

** Monday, Jan 12 at 6:30 pm the Children's Writers Group
will meet. This month we will meet at Sara's Table Chester
Creek Cafe. The writing prompt for this meeting is "new".
Email questions to Julesmj2@aol.com. The Children's Writers
Group meets the second Monday of each month.

** Sunday, Feb 15 @ 1:30 pm – Memoir Writing. Chester
Creek Café downstairs.

** Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 6 - 8 pm, Fiction/Poetry Writing
Group, at Chester Creek Cafe, 1902 E. 8th Street. Contact
Jill Hinners (349-6431) or Cheryl Reitan
(creitan@d.umn.edu), 218-728-3154).
Other Monthly Groups

** Thursday, Feb 19 @ 11:30 am - Writers' Square Table.
Chester Creek Café.

** Thursday, Feb 26 @ 5:00 pm – Playreading Group. Chester
Creek Café.

Other Monthly Groups

** Sunday, Feb 1 at 5:30 pm - Mystery Group - The
Headmaster's Wife by Jane Haddam at Barnes & Noble, Miller
Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

** Tuesday, Feb 3, 7:00 pm – The Northern Lights In-Store
Book Group: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Join us
with Special Guest, Professor Emeritus Dr. Craig Grau, UMD
Political Science Dept. for a lively conversation.
Discussion led by Anita Zager. Northern Lights Books and
Gifts, 307 Canal Park Drive, Duluth, MN 55802, 722-5267,
800-868-8904, www.norlights.com. New members always welcome.

** Thursday, Feb 5 at 1:00 pm - New Fiction/Non Fiction - A
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini at Barnes & Noble,
Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

** Tuesday, Feb 10 at 7:00 pm - Young Reader's Book Group
will read Double Fudge by Judy Blume at Barnes & Noble,
Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

** Wednesday, Feb 11 at 6:30 pm - Classics - Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman at Barnes & Noble, Miller Hill Mall, Duluth,
218-786-0710.

** Tuesday, Feb 17 at 7:00 pm - Notable Books - Moloka'i by
Alan Brennert at Barnes & Noble, Miller Hill Mall, Duluth,
218-786-0710.

** Monday, Feb 23 at 7:30 pm - Science Fiction - The
Dragon's Nine Sons by Chris Roberson at Barnes & Noble,
Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

** Friday, Feb 27 6:30 pm Freshwater Screenwriting Group
meets at Barnes & Noble, Miller Hill Mall, Duluth,
218-786-0710.

LSW KUDOS News about LSW Members back to top 

** Jan Chronister's poem "Old Glory" will be published in
the forthcoming 2009 Dust & Fire anthology from Bemidji
State University. Her poem "Corn Story" has been accepted
for publication in the Empty Shoes anthology to be published
by Popcorn Press with proceeds to benefit the homeless. Jan
is also the recipient of the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award
and will use the $500 to implement a series of poetry
writing workshops on the Bad River Reservation in Odanah,
Wisconsin.

** Eric Chandler’s article "Supersonic Lessons Demand A
Plan" appeared in the Fall 2008 premier issue of 32 Degrees,
The Journal of Professional Snowsports Instruction. It
compared ski instruction to flight instruction.

** See the latest post THAT WINNING ATTITUDE: writing and
publishing the AZ Cardinals Success Story by Patricia L.
Brooks on her blog http://blog.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

** Sherry Rovig’s poem “Winter Walk” will be published
in the 2009 issue of Bemidji State University’s writing
magazine, Dust & Fire, due out this month.

AREA LITERARY EVENTS back to top

** Friday, Feb 6, at 7:30 pm in Somers Lounge at the College
of St. Scholastica Reading by poet Michael Ryan, a Yale
Younger Poet and also a finalist for the National Book
Award. More info on him at:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/388

** Sunday, Feb 8 - Dovetailed Press authors Kathryn
Nordstrom, Marlene Wisuri, and Larry Luukkonen will
participate in the "writers' room" at the annual Laskiainen
Sliding Festival in Palo. Their featured books will be The
Fish House Book: Life on Ice in the Northland, The Co-op
Label, Dovetailed Corners (from Holy Cow! Press), and
Between the Waters: Tracing the Northwest Trail from Lake
Superior to the Mississippi. They will be available to talk
about the publications and sign copies of the books.

** Saturday, Feb 14 at 2:00 pm - Book Signing: Children's
Author Mary Casanova will be signing: her book, Chrissa, One
Dog Canoe, Dog Watch. Special Note! The American Girl
Company will be giving away a "Chrissa" doll in a drawing.
Barnes & Noble, Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, 218-786-0710

** Saturday, Feb 14 at 7:30 pm in Somers Lounge at the
College of St. Scholastica. The Spirit Lake Poetry Series
will present its 13th annual St. David's Day Open Reading.
The event will include brief readings by noted local poets
such as Connie Wanek, Paul Lundgren, Ann Niedringhaus, Ryan
Vine, Ellie Schoenfeld and Duluth Poet Laureate Jim Johnson,
but anyone, published or not, is welcome to participate. The
first half of the evening is devoted to original work, the
second half to favorite poems by other authors. Readers must
limit themselves to three minutes in order to give equal
time to everyone. The brainchild of Minnesota Book Award
winner Louis Jenkins, the St. David's Day Open Reading
honors the anniversary of the canonization of St. David, the
patron saint of Wales. The event is designed to showcase the
variety of voices in the Northland and kiss the worst of
winter goodbye. Readers are urged to sign up at the start of
the event – or just send an email to
spiritlakepoetry@gmail.com with "add me" in the subject
line. Admission is free.

** Saturday, Feb 28 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm There will be a
Community Book Drive to benefit the United Way's "Big Red
Bookshelf" project. Just drive up and drop off your new or
"gently used" children's books. They will be made available
to children in our community ages birth through age 8. First
United Methodist Church east parking lot (Copper Top) for
more information call Cheryl Skafte 218-726-4729 or Jill
Lyman 218-786-0710

** Sunday, Mar 1 at 2:00 pm - A Poet's Winter Sampler
Reading Sponsored by Douglas County Historical Society 1101
John Ave, Superior, WI. Readings by 6 local Poets who are
members of Arrowhead Poet's, Duluth & St. Croix Writers Ruth
Schmidt-Baeumler, Viola LaBounty, Linda M. Johnson, Brian
Landstrom, Kay Karras, Dennis Herschbach.

** Larry Weber - Writer, Teacher and Photographer - would
like to start a nature-writing group. If you're interested,
please contact him at 218-384-3851 or frlaweber@q.com.

** The City-Wide Read Committee announces the City-Wide Read
Selection for 2009: Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors
One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry. The Committee is
comprised of librarians, teachers, community members and
booksellers. Sponsorship has been provided by The Duluth
Library Foundation, The Arrowhead Reading Council, and
Northern Lights Books & Gifts.

** Once in a Blue Moon Studio WINTER ARTS NEWSLETTER
available from Diana Randolph at 47790 Blue Moon Road,
Drummond, WI 54832. Contact at 715-798-3600
oiabms@cheqnet.net

** Mary Ellen Ryall published the winter issue of
Butterflies and Gardens. The newsletter can be viewed at
http://happytonics.org/newsletter/. The quarterly newsletter
presents news on and addresses issues of the plight of the
monarch butterfly and food security issues.

** Notice From Northern Lights Books & Gifts: Inaccurate
event information has been posted on when.com and
authortour.com by someone other than us! Doris Kearns
Goodwin will not be in Duluth on Feb 3 and John Gaertner
will not be at the Radisson Jan 30. Please call Anita Zager
ASAP if you know how inaccurate information could have been
posted on the internet. If you have contacts with these
websites please remove that information. Please do not
forward our event information. If you think another contact
should be added to our press release information please
contact me directly. 218-722-5267 or 800-868-8904.

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


** ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS ONE ACT
PLAY COMPETITION

All submissions must be one-act plays of any genre except
musicals or puppet theatre. Scripts are to be original,
unpublished, and unproduced. Staged readings or workshop
productions will not disqualify a manuscript. Scripts
should be between 30 and 60 minutes in length. Content and
subject matter are completely open. Manuscripts must be
typed. There must be two title pages, one that includes the
name of the play, author(s), address, email address and
phone number and a second that includes ONLY the name of the
play. Send one copy of the script bound with a binder clip
or paper clip (not stapled). Scripts will not be returned.
All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges.
Submit plays by Monday, April 13, 2009 (postmarked) to Lake
Superior Writers, 1301 Rice Lake Road, Suite 132, Duluth, MN
55811. A first place award of $150 and a second place award
of $75 will be given. Both plays will be performed in a
“reader’s theatre” format on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at
2:00 pm at The Play Ground in the Technology Center
Building, 11 East Superior St, Duluth. Only members of Lake
Superior Writers may submit scripts, but you may join Lake
Superior Writers and submit your script at the same time by
including a check made out to Lake Superior Writers for $35.

** February 1 is the deadline to nominate titles for the
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards. Titles published in 2008
that are substantially representative of northeastern
Minnesota may be entered in one of six categories:

General Nonfiction
Memoir/Creative Nonfiction
Fiction
Poetry
Art/Photography
Children's Literature

Winners of the 21st annual Northeastern Minnesota Book
Awards will be announced at an afternoon celebration on May
17 at UMD. Prizes will include $300 and a plaque for the
winner in each category. 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 the book and the $25 entry fee (made
payable to UMD Library) 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.
NEMBA web site:
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba/index.htm>

** Intermedia Arts 2009 SASE/Jerome Award Finalists
Announced! Each year, Intermedia Arts awards grants of up to
$5,000 to emerging Minnesota writers. This year’s
applications were narrowed down to 18 finalists by our
dedicated community judges: Julie Landsman (creative
nonfiction) Sharon Chmielarz (poetry), and John Jodzio
(fiction). Grant winners will be announced in late February
2009. The 2009 Finalists are:

POETRY
Todd Boss
Paula Cisewski
Melanie Figg
Michelle Matthees
Michael J. Opperman
Elisabeth Workman

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Ruth Gila Berger
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
Kara Garbe
Rodney Nelsestuen
Margie Newman
Joan Trygg

FICTION
Annie Baxter
Heather Bouwman
Elizabeth Edelson
Scott Muskin
Ethan Rutherford
Eric Vrooman

Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding
among people
through art. http://www.intermediaarts.org

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.