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2nd Annual Zell Fellow Reading Series features poetry and prose from U-M Zell fellows and alums. This year’s series will feature themed readings.

Among the many participating writers and artists at the 12th annual BookFest: the RC’s Ken Mikolowski, U-M alum James Tobin, Ann Arborites Dave Coverly and Don Faber.

Jon M. Sweeney, author of When St. Francis Saved The Church as well as the recent bestseller The Pope Who Quit, has worked in book publishing for 25 years and since 2004 has been editor-in-chief of[...]

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Art opening at RC Art Gallery, featuring artwork and reinterpretation of Ken Mikolowski’s poems by Michael Gould.

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Authors will read from Chronicling Childhood Cancer: A Collection of Personal Stories by Children and Teens with Cancer. In Chronicling Childhood Cancer, ten children and teens use their own words and colorful drawings to share their personal experiences with cancer. This[...]

Raised in Detroit, Lisa Lenzo now lives in southwestern Michigan, where she drives and dispatches for the local bus company and writes. Lenzo’s first story collection, Within the Lighted City, was chosen by Ann Beattie[...]

A.J. Baime is the author of the New York Times Best Selling book The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and[...]

Kim Church’s debut novel, Byrd (Dzanc Books, 2014), has been long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Byrd is the fractured family history of a child secretly given up for adoption. Kim’s short stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi[...]

Harbach is the author of The Art of Fielding.

Philippa Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Her Cousins’ War novels are the basis for the Starz miniseries The White[...]

Fall Writers’ Workshop with Angie Chuang  at the Crazy Wisdom Community Room. Open to writers at all levels. Journalist and educator Angie Chuang, author of The Four Words for Home, winner of the Willow Books[...]

Jesmyn Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community covering the 10 days preceding Hurricane Katrina, the day of the cyclone, and[...]

Magee and Stevens are co-authors of The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Football Rivalry. Ken Magee was born and raised in Ann Arbor and is an expert in Wolverine football history. Ken is a 30-year veteran[...]

Abrams ComicArts recently published (September 2014) The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination, by Dan Mishkin, Jerry Drozd, and Ernie Colón. Dan Mishkin is a comic book writer with over thirty years’ experience,[...]

Robert Hass’s books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, Time and Materials, Sun Under Wood: New Poems,Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide. He has co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz. He is[...]

Lolita Hernandez will read from her new story collection, Making Callaloo in Detroit, in the Keene.

David J. Rothman recently became the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Western State Colorado University, in Gunnison, Colorado, where he previously directed the Poetry Concentration for four years. His most recent poetry includes The Book[...]

RC Creative Writing alumna Anna Clark invites us to a special reading and celebration. The Henry Ford Centennial Library and the Detroit chapter of the Women’s National Book Association will host  featured contributors to A Detroit Anthology.[...]

“Don’t Look Before You Leap: a Punk Aesthetic for Acting and Writing” Eric Bogosian presents a short discourse on his methodology in the theater. Eric Bogosian is an author and actor known for his plays and films Talk[...]