10:00 am to 11:20 am — Seeing the World: How to Sharpen Your Travel Writing by Catherine Watson.
This workshop is designed to help you share your travel experiences more effectively, vividly and intensely, so your readers feel that they are right there with you. The great challenge is learning to write like the trusted guide, not the hero. The workshop will include discussion, tips on specific techniques, writing exercises and group feedback.
Catherine Watson, the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s first travel editor, was the newspaper’s chief travel columnist and photographer from 1978 to 2004. Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth (Syren Book Company, 2005) is a new collection of her popular travel essays that spans thirty years and seven continents.

11:30 am to 12:20 pm — Into Print: Publishing Family and Local History by Marlene Wisuri.
This “nuts and bolts” workshop will cover some of the basics of publishing family and local history books. Topics such as organizing content, choosing a book format and printer, desktop publishing software, funding, and establishing a production timeline will be covered. Many examples of various publications will be presented and discussed.
Marlene Wisuri is co-author of eight books and recipient of two Minnesota Book Awards. She is Director of the Carlton County Historical Society, where she has worked on several local history books, and is also a partner in Dovetailed Press LLC.

12:30 pm. to 1 pm — Duluth Poet Laureate presentation (Great Hall)

1 pm. to 1:50 pm — Truth and the Imagination. A poetry workshop by Connie Wanek.
We will explore whether it is possible, practical, necessary, and even desirable to “tell the truth” in one’s writing. What do readers expect? Do expectations change with genre? Where does the imagination fit into this discussion?
Connie Wanek has been writing poetry for 30 years. Originally from New Mexico, she has been living in Duluth since 1990. Her two poetry books are Bonfire (New Rivers Press, 1997) and Hartley Field (Holy Cow! Press, 2002). She is a 2006 Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress.

2 pm to 2:50 pm — Regional Publishing Panel with Konnie LeMay (Lake Superior Magazine), Susan Hauser (Dust & Fire anthology), and Tony Dierckins (X-communication).
A discussion of regional publishing, with practical information, advice and current trends.
*Konnie LeMay is the editor of Lake Superior Magazine in Duluth, a company that also publishes award-winning books. She also has worked and continues to work as a freelance writer. She has written extensively for Indian Country Today, a national Native American newspaper.
*Susan Hauser is the author of twelve books including Outside After Dark: New & Selected Poems, and is faculty editor at Bemidji State University for Dust & Fire: Writing & Art by Women. She also directs the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University.
*Tony Dierckins is the owner of X-communication, the Duluth publishing house that has produced such regional bestsellers as WDIO-TV anchor Denny Anderson’s Good Night, Everybody…and Be Kind and Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the forthcoming Zenith: A Postcard Perspective of Historic Duluth.

3 pm to 3:50 pm — Ready, Set, Go! A girl’s writing workshop by Kate Freeborn, New Moon Magazine
In this workshop, we’ll use writing exercises to come up with five great ideas to use in your poetry or fiction. We’ll also talk about how to polish your work and get it published., using New Moon Magazine as one example. This workshop is best suited for girls, ages 8-14.
Kate Freeborn, New Moon Magazine’s Managing Editor, has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. She’s received a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in 2003 and has written for both The Utne Reader and Borealis Magazine.

4 pm. to 4:50 pm — Truth in Memoir: Does it Matter? A panel discussion with Mara Hart, Donna Schilling, and Milan Kovacovic.
The panel will discuss the degree to which one can stretch or add to the truth in memoir writing, if at all.
Mara Hart is an award-winning memoir writer and experienced teacher. For years, she has led an open memoir group and mentored several memoir writers. She has an MFA in Memoir Writing from Goddard College.
Donna Schilling, an experienced memoir writer and teacher, has her memoir, “Vacation Bible School,” published in the anthology Growing Up on Memory Lane, 2004.
Milan Kovacovic, a French professor at UMD, has an agent for his book-length memoir, Room and Board, about growing up in Czechoslovakia, France, and the United States.

10:15 am — Tom Chapin, Poachers Caught! and More Poachers Caught!
10:30 am — William J. Christen, Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland
10:45 am — Peggy Anderson, Dear Auntie, Why Me?
11:00 am — Cary J. Griffith, Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
11:15 am — Laurel Poetry Collective, with Georgia Greeley and Suzanne Swanson
11:30 am — Sharon Moen, Superior Science: Stories of Lake Superior Research
11:45 am — Joy Dey, Nikki Johnson, Nightlight
12 noon — Deborah Cooper, Ellie Schoenfeld, Candace Ginsberg, The Moon Rolls Out of Our Mouths
12:15 pm — Jim Johnson, The Co-op Label

12:30 to 1:00 pm — Duluth poet laureate announcement and reception

1:00 pm — Hugh Bishop, Haunted Minnesota
1:15 pm — Sharon Chmielarz, The Rhubarb King
1:30 pm — Kevin Strauss, Loon and Moon
1:45 pm — Michael Fedo, Indians in the Arbovitae
2:00 pm — Sarah Chapman, A Circus Girl’s Cookbook
2:15 pm — Margaret Olson Webster, Are All the Heroes Gone?, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery
2:30 pm — Beryl Singleton Bissell, The Scent of God: A Memoir
2:45 pm — Joan Drury, Those Jordan Girls
3:00 pm — Carol Borzyskowski, Main Channel Voices
3:15 pm — Mike Savage, The Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway (by Jay Thurston)
3:30 pm — Peter Rennebohm, Blue Springs
3:45 pm — Paulette Warren, from Minnesota writers who teach at the Loft
4:00 pm — Marlene Wisuri, The Four Hills of Life
4:15 to 4:15 pm — Catherine Watson, Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth
4:15 to 5:00 pm — open reading, ten minutes each reader

The Depot Great Hall

Peggy Anderson Publishing: all day, Peggy Anderson signs Dear Auntie, Why Me?

Bayside Books: all day, Peter Rennebohm signs Blue Springs, French Creek, and Be Not Afraid: Ben Peyton’s Story

Beryl Singleton Bissell: all day, signing The Scent of God: A Memoir

Sarah Chapman: all day, signing A Circus Girl’s Cookbook

Joy Dey/Nikki Johnson: all day, signing Nightlight

Dovetailed Press: 12:30 to 5 pm, The Co-op Label with Jim Johnson

Drury Lane Bookstore: 3:15 to 3:45 pm, Joan Drury signs Those Jordan Girls, The Other Side of Silence, Silent Words, and Closed in Silence

Edinborough Press: all day, William J. Christen signs Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland

Michael Fedo: all day, signs Indians at Arbovitae

Sam Kigelman: all day, signs A Flower’s Stem

Lake Superior Magazine: 12:30 to 3 pm, Hugh Bishop signs his books, including Haunted Lake Superior, The Night the Fitz Went Down, and others

Laurel Poetry Collective: all day, Georgia Greeley signs Soundings; Suzanne Swanson signs House of Music

Loonfeather Press: all day, Sharon Chmielarz signs The Rhubarb King

Minnesota Historical Society Press: 11:15 am to noon, Cary J. Griffith signs Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods

Ann Niedringhaus: all day, Ellie Schoenfeld, Candace Ginsberg, Deborah Cooper sign The Moon Rolls Out of Our Mouths

Northern Encounters Publishing: all day, Tom Chapin signs Poachers Caught! and More Poachers Caught!

Northern Lights Bookstore: 12 to 1 pm, Jay Gilbertson signs Moon Over Madeline Island; 1 to 2 pm., William Durbin and Lise Lunge-Larsen sign their books; 2 to 3 pm., Laura Erickson signs her books

PMJ Publishing: Pat McGauley signs his books.

Raven Productions: 2 to 3:30 pm, Kevin Strauss signs Loon and Moon

Syren Book Company: 11 am, Earl Gustafson signs The Swedish Secret: What the United States Can Learn from Sweden’s Story; 3 pm., Catherine Watson signs Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth

UMD Sea Grant Program: 10 am to noon, Sharon Moen signs Superior Science: Stories of Lake Superior Research

Margaret Olson Webster/Blue Pearl Books: all day, signing Are All the Heroes Gone? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery

The Will and The Way: all day, Donn Larson signs his book

Afton Historical Society Press (Afton)
Peggy Anderson Publishing (Duluth)
Artist Relief Fund — ART Fund (Duluth)
Bayside Books (Maple Plain)
Beaver’s Pond Press (Edina)
Beryl Singleton Bissell (Schroeder)
Bluestone Press (Duluth)
Sarah Chapman (Duluth)
Joy Dey/Nikki Johnson (Duluth)
Dovetailed Press (Duluth)
Drury Lane Bookstore (Grand Marais)
Edinborough Press (Roseville)
Michael Fedo (Coon Rapids)
Jim Fletcher (Pelican Rapids)

Free Spirit Publishing (Minneapolis)
Holy Cow! Press (Duluth)
Sam Kigelman (Superior, WI)
Lake Superior Magazine (Duluth)
Lake Superior Writers (Duluth)
Laurel Poetry Collective (Saint Paul)
The Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis)
Loonfeather Press (Bemidji)
Main Channel Voices Literary Magazine (Winona)
Minnesota Historical Society Press (St Paul)
New Rivers Press (Moorhead)
Ann Niedringhaus/The Moon Rolls Out of Our Mouths (Duluth)
Northern Encounters Publishing (Pelican Rapids)

Northern Lights Books & Gifts (Duluth)
PMJ Publishing (Hibbing)
Raven Productions (Ely)
Red Dragonfly Press (Red Wing)
Savage Press (Superior, WI)
Singing River Publications (Ely)
Syren Book Company (Minneapolis)
UMD Sea Grant Program (Duluth)
University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis)
Margaret Olson Webster/Blue Pearl Books (Tamarack)
The Will and The Way (Duluth)
X-communication (Duluth)

MN unless noted