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Jon Michael Darga, a 2014 RC Creative Writing (honors) graduate, answers your questions about how to pursue a creative career in publishing.

Jon wrote his senior thesis on women and the medieval modern in The Lord of the Rings . He was happily fixated on semicolons and Oxford commas as the editor of last year’s RC Review. Interning with Midwestern Gothic literary magazine and publishing press, Jon co-created theVoices of the Middle West annual festival, organized book tours, and came to realize his love of all things publishing. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course, Jon now works as an agent’s assistant at Park Literary in New York City.ago Reader’s Pure Fiction Issue and Midwestern Gothic, among other places. He is also an editor at the Great Lakes Review where he coordinates the online Narrative Map essay project.

Fireside Stories with The RC Review

Get cozy at “Fireside Stories with the RC Review!” We’ll have an open mic where any students can (and should!) bring their own poetry, prose, and other awesome creative work to share with us. Share your love of words, support your RC community, and hear the RC’s very own Creative Writing professors read from their own amazing work! This will also be the kick-off of the grand opening of the RC Review’s submission season!

Join Dr. Henry Aldridge, an EMU film professor emeritus and theater scholar, as he discusses The Michigan Theater Book, a full-color, photo-illustrated book
that explores the first 80 years of the Michigan Theater’s life and how it ties into the histories of Ann Arbor and film. Signing to follow.

Local fiction writer Donald Lystra, author of Midwest Book Award-winning novel Season of Water and Ice and short story collection Something That Feels Like Truth, offers tips on revising your work and how to get it published. Q&A. Signing In conjunction with the end of National Novel Writing Month, a nonprofit promotion challenging teens and adults to write a 50,000-word novel by the end of November.

E.J. Copperman discusses The Question of a Missing Head, the first in a series featuring a New Jersey detective with Asperger’s Syndrome, who investigates the disappearance of a preserved head from a cryonics facility. He also talks about his new book Inspector Specter, part of his popular Haunted Guesthouse series. Copperman is a nom de plume of Jeff Cohen, who also write humorous mysteries under his own name. Signing.

An Open Mic session where area poets can read their own work or share a favorite poem by another author.  If you are  interested in participating in the open mic, please call us or email info@bookboundbookstore.com. This is a monthly series held on the second Thursday of each month.

Dark fantasy mixes the creative elements of storytelling with art and music in
Erin Eveland‘s new, interactive Young Adult novel, Darkness, about a 16 year old girl born with a supernatural power. Erin Eveland is a Michigan author
who has published short horror stories in Dark Moon Books,  Mocha Memoirs Press, Cromaine, and Dreamscape.  Signing to follow.
Learn more: http://www.darknesstheseries.com/

Panel discussion on the issues raised by 2013 U-M Livingston Award for Young Journalists winner Luke Mogelson’s New York Times article about the plight of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Central Asia trying to reach Christmas Island. With Mogelson, New York Times investigative editor Joel Lovell, U-M International Policy Center co-director John Ciorciari, and U-M public policy professor Susan Waltz.  1120 Weill, 735 S. State at Hill

Radio Campfire is a new series of listening events devoted to memorable radio documentaries, soundscapes and experimental sonic shorts. Think relaxed, magical and intimate, like the campfire (minus the burnt marshmallows.)