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WELCOME TO THE NWS 2021 VIRTUAL AUTHOR SEASON
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t’s hard to believe it’s been three time this summer, and we are making
months since I started here at every effort to return safely for many
the National Writers Series. events this fall. When we booked our
The days have been a whirlwind summer authors, it was not yet time
of authors and writing classes and to consider in-person events, though
connecting with the incredible those are now on the horizon. While
literary community here in Traverse we miss seeing our NWS family in STATES WHERE AUTHORS HAVE
City. I’m so happy to have immersed person, we’ve also been loving our VIEWERS HAVE SPOKEN FROM
myself with a group of people who virtual events...and it seems like you TUNED IN FROM THE VIRTUAL STAGE
love books just as much as I do. have too!
1,000 450
Thank you for helping me feel at
home in this new role. Even when we’re back in person,
we’ll keep a virtual option available
It’s even harder to believe more for our audience. We want to
than a year has passed since NWS continue to make our events
switched to virtual events in the face accessible for folks all over the
NWS PODCAST + REGISTRATIONS
of COVID-19. The love of great books country and sometimes even the
and great conversations brought our world. (Perhaps one day we’ll be LISTENS PER NWS EVENT
community together over the past 14 the International Writers Series!) PER MONTH
months, and we’re grateful not only
to the talented authors who have I can’t tell you how excited I am for
shared their writing and wisdom with this summer line-up, which brings in
us, but also to the people of Traverse new voices, a few NWS alums, and an VIEWS OF PAST VIRTUAL
City and beyond who have shown array of books that speak to all kinds EVENTS ON YOUTUBE
their support for our work. of readers and writers. I hope you
enjoy the six events we have planned
Because of our incredible NWS for this summer, and we look forward
OUR MISSION
friends and sponsors, we were able to to seeing you on Zoom or in person
hold a record-breaking Battle of the one day soon.
Books via Zoom in March, continue
our poetry workshops, graduate a The National Writers
new class of Front Street Writers, and Cheers,
provide four $1,000 scholarships to Series of Traverse City
bright students headed to college to
pursue writing careers. And through
is a nonprofit
it all, we’ve hosted nearly 30 authors organization dedicated
on the virtual stage.
to holding great
I’d also like to say a special thank-
JILLIAN conversations with
you to the NWS staff and board.
MANNING
Your dedication, hard work, and Executive today’s best authors
creativity are true blessings to this Director
organization. And to our volunteers… National
and building the
we can’t wait to see you again! Writers Series reading & writing
We sincerely wish we were back at skills of youth.
our beloved City Opera House full
WELCOME TO THE NWS 2021 VIRTUAL AUTHOR SEASON
Welcome to the story. and the backwoods of Maine, by way
of the railroad and steamboat… I
bound has become so strange to me.
I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I
mountain. As we gather and talk
about the story at hand.
Which story? you ask. Your story, our proposed to make excursions to am one,—that my body might,—but I
story, the stories guest authors bring Mount Ktaadn, the second highest fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. We’re so glad you’re here. Thanks for
with them when they come to the mountain in New England...” What is this Titan that has possession sticking with us through this past year.
National Writers Series. Who are we? of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of We need each other. Need the stories,
Where are we? I think of Henry David He goes on for several exhilarating our life in nature,—daily to be shown the ones that say, Here we are.
Thoreau’s 1848 essay “Ktaadn.” pages, passing through a “wild” matter, to come in contact with it,—
place of "wind, rocks & trees,” until rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks!
The first time I read it, I felt, as Emily finally, he writes—and this is the part, the solid earth! the actual world! the
Dickinson said one would feel in the because it seems so surprising, common sense! Contact! Contact!
presence of a poem, that the top of the electric, inevitable—coming out of Who are we? Where are we?"
head had been taken off, not of course nowhere:
in any permanent way, so to speak, These seem like good questions. DOUG
but the way that Art can do — to stun, "What is it to be admitted to a STANTON
amaze, change, delight, entertain. museum, to see a myriad of particular Questions that novels and nonfiction Co-founder
things, compared with being shown books and young adult novels and National
Here’s Thoreau: some star's surface, some hard graphic novels and the conversations Writers Series
"On the 31st of August, 1846, I left matter in its home! I stand in awe of we have onstage at NWS try to
Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor my body, this matter to which I am answer. Journeys up and down the
Kudos to the 2021 NWS Scholarship Winners!
To read the winning entries, visit NationalWritersSeries.org
Leslie Lee Nonfiction Award Robert & Marcy Branski Poetry Award
BROOKE ESSENBERG KALLIE CROUCH
Ellsworth Community Schools, Senior Mancelona High School / Front Street Writers, Senior
For the Love of All Things Good and Holy Girl, Don’t Atlas Revisited
Squash the Squash “My love for writing comes from the world around me,
“Writing about the world, my thoughts, feelings and and the beauty I see in the small details of the natural
experiences, just makes everything make more sense, world and the creatures that live within it.”
and I’m a fan of anything that makes life a little clearer.”
William R. Montgomery Fiction Award Judith Lang Journalism Award
SONJA DANIELS-MOEHLE DEUCALION SHETLER
Homeschool, Junior North Central Academy / Front Street Writers, Senior
The Thrum America Divided
“To me, stories are an extraordinary part of our lives, “I want to write stories that people can see themselves
and finding and writing them down helps us under- in. I know I can show people that they are not alone
stand the world we all share.” using my words.”
Thanks to all those who have so generously supported these scholarships! Heartfelt thanks, also, to our partner, the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
and NWS Scholarship Coordinator Gina Thornbury of the Community Foundation. Thanks to those who gave so generously to our NWS college scholarship fund
awarded in partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation: Leslie Lee, Marcy and Bob Branski, Anne Montgomery, and Judith Lang.
RAISING WRITERS
Battle of the Books Championship - Pre-Pandemic
HONING THE SKILLS OF YOUNG,
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
PASSIONATE READERS AND WRITERS
The Writers Series uses proceeds from its author events
L aunched in 2016, Battle of the Books Grand Traverse is a free, book-based
trivia competition. Dozens of teams read books provided by NWS and then
compete before judges to show what they know. This program has become
to help support its several Raising Writers programs wildly popular, filling up even in a virtual pandemic year with more than
350 students.
FRONT STREET WRITERS Battle of the Books is a huge endeavor, made possible with a partnership with
F ront Street Writers offers middle school and high school writers an award- the Traverse Area District Library, dedicated volunteers, generous sponsors,
winning program to hone their skills. From a semester-long creative and the leadership of program coordinator Marcy Lindberg.
writing intensive to weekend workshops to free masterclasses with visiting
NWS authors, Front Street Writers encourages a lifelong love of writing for THE BATTLE
northern Michigan students.
GOES ON!
NWS LITERARY JOURNAL W hat a year for Battle of the
Books, Pandemic Edition!
P ublished once a year, the NWS
Literary Journal highlights selected
student works from our creative writing
More than 350 kids and 62
teams participated—a record
year!—and it was so fun to see
classes, poetry workshops, scholarship all the costumes, cheers, and
competition, and more. Copies of the secret hand signals the kids
journal are available in digital and print had devised to make our Zoom
format at NationalWritersSeries.org. battles fun.
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS 2021 broke another record
In partnership with the Grand Traverse
Regional Community Foundation,
NWS has awarded 38 students with
with our first ever Battle of
the Books co-champions:
Where the Wild Books Are
$56,000 in scholarship money. and Little Readers in the
Big Books! These two teams
The winning pieces are published in achieved a tie score after
the NWS Literary Journal each spring. completing the Battle of the
Books finale and two rounds
of tie breaker questions. They
were amazing!
POETRY WORKSHOPS
E ach year, we host poetry
workshops with Traverse Heights
and Blair elementary school fourth
Extra cheers to the Battle of
the Books planning committee IT'S A TIE! The 2021 Battle of the Books champion-
and judges—Marcy Lindberg, ship teams are Where the Wild Books Are (top) &
and fifth graders. We believe in Megan Shapiro, Tracy Coe, Little Readers in the Big Books.
the power of poetry to help young Judy Arnold, Dawn Oh, Sera
people find their voices and express Thompson, Rorie Lewis, Martha Topol and Andy Schuck—who made all of this
themselves creatively. possible, especially in this pandemic year. Here’s to great books!
Braiding Sweetgrass weaves Guest Host
JUNE 10, 7PM • $12 VIRTUAL TICKETED EVENT together a central argument: that MATTHEW L.M.
the awakening of a wider ecological FLETCHER
ROBIN WALL consciousness requires the
acknowledgment and celebration
Fletcher is
Foundation
KIMMERER of our reciprocal relationship with
the rest of the living world.
Professor of Law
at Michigan State
“I give daily thanks for Robin University College of
Wall Kimmerer for being a font of This special ticketed event is pre- Law and Director of the Indigenous
endless knowledge, both mental sented in partnership with For Love Law and Policy Center.
of Water (FLOW), a nonprofit He is a frequent instructor at the
and spiritual.” dedicated to protecting and Pre-Law Summer Institute for
~ Richard Powers, New York Times preserving the Great Lakes. Half of American Indian students. He sits as
the proceeds from our ticket sales will the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band
go to FLOW to support their mission. of Creek Indians Supreme Court and
A s a botanist,
Robin Wall
Kimmerer
Welcome to Chairman David M.
also sits as an appellate judge for
nine other tribes. He is a member of
Arroyo of the Grand Traverse Band of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa
has been Ottawa and Chippewa Indians for a and Chippewa Indians.
trained to ask blessing at the beginning of our event,
questions of and the Botanic Garden at Historic
nature with the Barns Park as a community partner.
tools of science.
As a member of GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY Grantors: MICHIGAN HUMANITIES
the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she brings these two lenses of knowledge Event Sponsor: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR
embraces the notion that plants and together to take us on “a journey that
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL THE HUMANITIES
animals are our oldest teachers. In is every bit as mythic as it is scientific,
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous as sacred as it is historical, as clever COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities, an affiliate
of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
the Teachings of Plants, Kimmerer
car share home from college many Guest Host
JUNE 24, 7PM • FREE Virtual Event ($10 donation suggested) years ago, they are the very best of BRITTANY
friends. For most of the year they live CAVALLARO
EMILY HENRY far apart—she’s in New York City, and
he’s in their small hometown—but
Cavallaro is the
New York Times
“Emily Henry's new book is the every summer, for a decade, they bestselling
perfect getaway: a heartfelt, funny, have taken one glorious week of author of the
vacation together. Charlotte Holmes
tender escape that you wish could
novels and Muse. With Emily Henry,
last forever.” Until two years ago, when they she is the author of Hello Girls.
~ Jodi Picoult, bestselling author ruined everything. They haven’t A recipient of a National Endowment
spoken since. for the Arts fellowship, she received
E
her MFA in creative writing from the
mily Henry, Poppy has everything she should University of Wisconsin-Madison
New want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When and her PhD in English literature
York Times someone asks when she was last from the University of Wisconsin-
bestselling truly happy, she knows, without a Milwaukee. Currently, she teaches
author doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final creative writing at the Interlochen
of Beach trip with Alex. And so, she decides Arts Academy in Michigan.
Read, offers to convince her best friend to take
a sparkling one more vacation together—lay
new novel perfect everything on the table, make it all GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
for summertime in Traverse City. right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now Event Sponsor:
Named a Most Anticipated Book she has a week to fix everything. CHERRY REPUBLIC
of 2021 by Newsweek, Oprah Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy.
Magazine, Marie Claire, Parade, Good They have nothing in common. She’s Literary Sponsor:
Housekeeping, and more, People a wild child; he wears khakis. She We are pleased to welcome SHAWN SCHMIDT SMITH -
We Meet on Vacation will leave you has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers Creative Coast, an initiative Coldwell Banker Schmidt
with the warm, hazy afterglow usually to stay home with a book. And powered by Traverse Connect,
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THROUGH THE YEARS: A LOOK BACK AT SOME MEMORABLE EVENTS JULY 8, 7PM • FREE Virtual Event ($10 donation suggested)
DAX-DEVLON
ROSS
“(A) deeply intimate and often
searing account… It’s a must read
coming-of-age story for our times.”
~ Elsa Walsh, journalist & bestselling author
Jen Sincero & enthusiastic fans: 2018 Nikki Giovanni : 2017
D ax-Devlon
Ross has led
a career as an
educator,
non-profit
executive,
equity consultant,
and journalist.
After receiving his J.D. from George especially in the future when race is
Lucy Kalanithi: 2016 Mitch Albom : 2011 Washington University, he joined no longer in the spotlight.
New York City Teaching Fellows. He
is the founding Executive Director
of After-School All-Stars in New York This event is presented in partnership
and New Jersey, and was the winner with Northern Michigan E3, an
of the National Association of Black
antiracism taskforce that seeks to
Journalists’ Investigative Reporting
educate, elevate, and engage.
Award. Currently he is a fellow at
Type Media Center.
Guest Host
In his latest book, Letters to My COURTNEY
White Male Friends, Ross speaks WIGGINS
directly to the millions of people Wiggins is a
Harlan Coben receives the key to the city: 2015 Diana Gabaldon: 2014 who are suddenly awakening to the community
ways racism warps us all. Ross helps organizer,
readers understand what it meant to healer,
be America’s first generation raised and founding
after the civil rights era. He explains councilmember of Northern
how we were all educated with Michigan E3: Educate, Elevate, and
colorblind narratives and symbols that Engage. They are actively working
typically, albeit implicitly, privileged to eradicate racism and build a
whiteness and denigrated Blackness. regional movement toward racial
He provides the context and color of justice and collective liberation
his own experiences in white schools through education, elevation, and
Creative writing class field trip: 2013 Terry McDonell: 2017 so that readers can revisit moments engagement that is BIPOC-led and
in their lives where racism was in the BIPOC-centered. In addition to racial
room even when they didn’t see it justice work, Courtney is a certified
enter. Ross shows how learning to vibrational sound therapist, herbal
see the harm that racism did to him, tea maker and parent to a wonderful
and forgiving himself, gave him the nearly ten-year-old. (BIPOC – Black,
empathy to see the harm it does to Indigenous, and People of Color)
white people as well.
Ultimately, Ross offers direction GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
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JULY 22, 7PM • FREE Virtual Event ($10 donation suggested)
RAISING THE LITERARY BAR SINCE 2010
MEGAN • NWS broadcasts author events • Sixty-two teams engaged
MIRANDA on IPR, Community Access
Television, YouTube, and makes
in a creative and fun Battle of
the Books this year. This year
them available to public radio 355 students were quizzed on
“Agatha Christie fans will welcome stations around the country. nine books.
this 21st-century update on the The NWS virtual events are
classic golden age village mystery.” available on our website. • Each spring, we’ve hosted
poetry workshops at Traverse
~ Publishers Weekly • More than 69,000 people have Heights and Blair Elementary
attended events since we started. schools. This year, the poetry
workshops were held virtually.
M egan Miranda • Awarded $56,000 in scholar-
is the New ships to 38 collegebound • NWS creates and promotes
York Times students. youth creative writing classes
bestselling in partnership with Northwestern
author of All • We’ve hosted more than 180 Michigan College.
the Missing authors for onstage conversa-
Girls, The Perfect tions over the past 10 years. • Each spring, we publish the
Stranger, The Last annual National Writers Series
House Guest, a Reese • Our Raising Writers programs Literary Journal, which includes
Witherspoon Book Club pick, and offer creative writing oppor- student writing from Front Street
The Girl from Widow Hills. Miranda Guest Host tunities that engage kids from Writers, poetry workshops, and
returns to the virtual stage with the RILEY SAGER ages 9-18 throughout northern NMC creative writing classes.
National Writers Series after hosting Sager is the Michigan.
our 2020 event with Ruth Ware.
pseudonym
Such a Quiet Place is her riveting
of a former
new suspense novel about a
KUDOS to NWS
journalist,
mysterious murder in an idyllic and
close-knit neighborhood. editor, and
graphic designer.
Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet Riley’s first novel, Final Girls, was a
place. A private and peaceful national and international bestseller "I had a most wonderful experience
neighborhood where neighbors that has been published in more than speaking virtually at the NWS—this is
dropped in on neighbors, celebrated two dozen countries and won the
graduation and holiday parties a passionate organization that cares
ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover
together, and looked out for one Novel. Sager’s subsequent novels deeply about the arts. As a writer, I
another. The Last Time I Lied, Lock Every couldn't be more grateful that the
Door, and Home Before Dark, which NWS exists."
But then came the murder of
received the Crimson Scribe Award
Brandon and Fiona Truett. A year
by Suspense Magazine, were New ~ Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
and a half later, Hollow’s Edge
York Times bestsellers. Survive the
is simmering. The residents are
trapped, unable to sell their homes, Night (2021) is Riley’s fifth thriller.
confronted daily by the empty Truett “Traverse City wrung my tired soul out.
house, and suffocated by their trial I got a chance to spend some time with
testimonies that implicated one of GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
the young writers of tomorrow, part of
their own, Ruby Fletcher. And now, Literary Sponsor:
Ruby’s back. the National Writers Series, and then
CORNERSTONE ARCHITECTS
I read in the magnificent old Opera
Pulsating with suspense and with House. All the ghosts of the past and
the shocking twists that are Megan
Miranda’s trademark, Such a Quiet
the voices of the future in one very
Place is her best novel yet—a twisty special place.”
locked-box thriller that will keep you
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suburban teen—and, most importantly, We are pleased to welcome The Good
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Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy
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poised yet restless young woman, and best-selling
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bestselling novel and Read with Jenna came to the United States as a child.
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JOHN U. BACON of the nation’s teams.
Guest Host
A true story filled with unforgettable DOUG STANTON
NWS Friends, we are so excited to have
characters, stories, and lessons that Doug Stanton is a
this event be our first in-person event
apply to organizations everywhere, #1 New York Times
back at the City Opera House. A livestream Let Them Lead includes the leader’s bestselling author
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Ann Arbor Stanton attended Interlochen Arts
Huron High John U. Bacon has written for Time, Academy, Hampshire College, and
School River the New York Times, and ESPN received an MFA from the Writers’
Rats, he never Magazine, among other publications, Workshop at the University of Iowa.
scored a goal. earning national honors. He is the He lives in Michigan with his wife,
Yet somehow, years author of several books on sports Anne, and their children.
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Flowers Jackie Fry Margaret Jones Lynda McKinnon Patricia RiceA few of the NWS authors on Zoom from the spring season. Clockwise from top left are Diane Rehm,
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