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Calling all writers! Get into the groove of writing in a quiet space with lots of outlets to plug in a laptop! Whether you’re working on a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month[...]

Former RC Creative Writing lecturer Leslie Stainton is the author of Lorca: A Dream of Life (Bloomsbury, 1998; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), a biography of the Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, which won the[...]

Join Michigan poets Anne-Marie Oomen, Teresa Scollon, and Ellen Stone for reading and conversation. Anne-Marie Oomen is author of two memoirs, Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, An American Map: Essays (Wayne State University[...]

Talk by Bill Loomis, a Michigan writer whose books include Detroit’s Delectable Past: Two Centuries of Frog Legs, Pigeon Pie and Drugstore Whiskey and Detroit Food: Coney Dogs to Farmers Markets. All newcomers to the[...]

2nd Annual Zell Fellow Reading Series features poetry and prose from U-M Zell fellows, alums, and special guests. This year’s series will feature themed readings.  September’s theme was “Western/Americana.”  

Alice Walker will give the 16th Zora Neale Hurston Lecture. Walker is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and other books.

U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies fellows discuss their recent books and areas of research.

U-M alum (and former NELP professor) Diane Cook who will read from her debut story collection Man V. Nature. Diane’s fiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Tin House, Zoetrope, One Story,Guernica, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times[...]

The Zell Visiting Writers Series welcomes back program alumni Michael Paterniti and Sara Corbett. Michael Paterniti is the author of the New York Times bestselling books, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and[...]

The Detroiters Speak series continues with Water Water Everywhere.  Hosted by Lolita Hernandez, with guest Kramer Baker and others. The UM Center is at the corner of Woodward and MLK. Free parking available in the structure[...]

Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang discuss how make a place for writing in your life and make the most of the time you have. For adult and[...]

John Connolly‘s newest Charlie Parker novel (the 12th in the series), Wolf in Winter, is forthcoming in October 2014.  Other books include Bad Men (a collection of stories),  The Book of Lost Things, and a trio[...]

U-M English and Judaic Studies professor Anita Norich discusses her Writing In Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century.

This event will be recorded At a time when daily print newspapers across the country are failing, the Michigan Daily continues to thrive. Completely operated by students of the University of Michigan, the paper was[...]

Friday Night’s Alright for Reading Midwestern Gothic is excited to be hosting a reading at The Benzinger Library in East Quad, featuring the following contributors:Julie Babcock is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of grants and[...]

Monica McFawn is a writer and playwright living in Michigan.  Her short story collection, Bright Shards of Someplace Else, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.  She is also the author of a hybrid chapbook, “A[...]

Novelist Jen Haeger discusses Epidemic, her recently published 2nd book in her Moonlight Medicine series of romantic thrillers about a female veterinarian who attracts the attentions of a werewolf. Signing.

Canadian mystery writer Maureen Jennings, author of the popular Detective Murdoch series, discusses No Known Grave, the last in her trilogy of WWII mysteries featuring small-town detective inspector Tom Tyler. Signing.

Deepak Singh‘s memoir Chasing America: Of Lollipops, Night Clubs and Ferocious Dogs is an anthropological view of his journey from urban India to rural America. Describing encounters tinged with both racism and understanding, he offers[...]

Local Authors Brunch is a panel discussion over brunch with several local writers, including Susan Wineberg (Historic Ann Arbor: An Architectural Guide), Dina Shtull (Why the Rabbi Played Clarinet in the Sauna),Judith Elkin (The Jews of[...]

Journalist Gail Sheehy discusses Daring, My Passages, her new memoir about her experiences as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s.

Oliver Horowitz discusses An American Caddie in St. Andrew’s: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course, his coming-of-age memoir about his experience as a Harvard student working as a caddie at the venerable[...]

Jeff Kass  reads from his latest Dzanc Books poetry collection, My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave, alongside emerging poet Eli Denning, who’s debut collection is now out on Red Beard Press. Kass is the author[...]

Fielding Graduate University (Santa Barbara) Institute for Social Innovation fellow Zieva Konvisser discusses Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope and Healing, her collection of stories by ordinary people who became victims of terrorist attacks[...]

U-M lecturer Julie Babcock launches her debut poetry collection, Autoplay, released by local micro-press MG Press. Babcock is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Vermont[...]

Israeli-American novelist and essayist Ayelet Waldman discusses Love and Treasure, her new novel, set in Salzburg in 1945, about a Jewish American army officer charged with guarding a captured train filled with unspeakable riches.

Children’s book author and illustrator Chris Raschka has received many awards and recognitions for his work. In 1992, he won the Best Books of the Year citation, Publisher’s Weekly, the Notable Children’s Book citation, American[...]

Foreign Policy Managing Editor Yoshi Dreazen discusses his The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War.

Nicholas Rombes will read from his debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing. Rombes is Professor of English at University of Detroit Mercy. He is author of Ramones from the 33 1/3 series and the book 10/40/70.[...]

RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors,  and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.  (Next tea: December 9)

Barbara Winton discusses her biography of her father, If It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.

Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, which was the recipient of the 2012 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.[...]

The Detroiters Speak series continues with LGBTQ, Activism in Detroit: A Historical overview.  Hosted by Shari Robinson-Lynk, with guests Kofi Adoma, Michael Piper, Jim Toy. The UM Center is at the corner of Woodward and MLK. Free[...]

Music historian James Grymes discusses Violins of Hope, his book about Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli violin maker who has devoted the past 20 years to restoring violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

Literati is pleased to help launch issue 5.5 of literary journal Harlequin Creature with a very special listening party. That’s because issue 5.5 of the journal is, in fact, a viynl record.  

The Neutral Zone, a local teen center, is partnering with U of M to put on night of poetry at the Mendelssohn on Thursday, November 13th at 7 pm. Local high school students reading and the two[...]

Students are invited to “tap the keys” of a typewriter during this all-day event. Sponsored by UEA and Fiction Writers Review.  

Minneapolis writer Dori Weinstein, who teaches Hebrew to preschoolers, discusses her two children’s books about Jewish holidays, Sliding into the New Year and Shaking in the Shack.

U-M Judaic professor Zvi Gitelman, author of the recent Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity, discusses Jewish dilemmas in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Elli DeLing will be reading from her debut poetry collection Jitamo’s Poems, published by the Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Elli is 80 years young and won her first poetry contest at age 17. She has[...]

Sonali Dev‘s novel A Bollywood Affair was published this October. Her  first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success,[...]

Comic actress Annabelle Gurwitch discusses her new memoir about turning 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50.

Harry Dolan is the author of the mystery/suspense novels BAD THINGS HAPPEN (2009), VERY BAD MEN (2011), and THE LAST DEAD GIRL (2014). He graduated from Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and studied[...]

Robin Silbergleid is an associate professor of English at Michigan State University, where she directs the creative writing program. She is the author of the chapbook Pas de Deux: Prose and Other Poems (Basilisk Press[...]

David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, and author of The Betrayers. His stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Harpers, Zoetrope All-Story, and The Walrus. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, was published[...]

Talk and book signing with Lisa Viger, author of Affordable, Easy Raw: How to Go Raw on $10 a Day. Join Lisa as she discusses the benefits of a raw food diet and shares tips[...]

Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign[...]

John F. Buckley reads from Yankee Broadcast Network, his latest collaboration with Martin Ott. Buckley is a recent graduate of the Helen Sell Writers’ Program at U-M. He has been writing poetry since an attempt at writing a[...]

Since 1993, when Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor, she has been responsible for over 1,000 of the magazine’s signature covers, many of which were chosen by The American Society of Magazine[...]

RC Writing Alum and U-M Professor of English Laura Kasischke will participate in a live broadcast of Word Squared with T Hetzel. Sweetland Center for Writing’s Word Squared lets you hear directly from U-M professors about their[...]

UK-bred mystery writer Andrew Grant discusses his new thriller, Run, and Michigan writer Elizabeth Heiter discusses her new thriller, Hunted.

Russell Shorto, author of national best-seller The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, many New York Times Magazine articles, and articles in national Dutch newspapers[...]

Local poet Scott Beal, an award-winning U-M creative writing grad, reads from his recently published debut collection, which deploys familiar characters from Rapunzel to Perseus and whimsically surreal tall tales to explore the varied and[...]

Aaron Poochigian‘s recent translation of Jason and the Argonauts will be published by Penguin Classics (October 2014). Born in 1973, he attended Moorhead State University (1991-96), then University of Minnesota (Classics). . After traveling and research[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Clay Pearn and poet Stephen Rodriguez.  

Breaking News:  A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy The sleepy town of Hiddlesville is rocked with explosions, and everybody’s got something to say about it. Television pundits and government agents are honing in on[...]

Children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg will give a presentation and sign in support of his latest work, The Misadventures of Sweetie-Pie. Van Allsburg is a Michigan native and U-M alum. He is the winner of two[...]

Breaking News:  A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy The sleepy town of Hiddlesville is rocked with explosions, and everybody’s got something to say about it. Television pundits and government agents are honing in on[...]

Breaking News:  A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy The sleepy town of Hiddlesville is rocked with explosions, and everybody’s got something to say about it. Television pundits and government agents are honing in on[...]

Staged reading for RC faculty and students.

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[...]

Katherine Freese‘s The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter was published in May 2014 by Princeton University Press. She earned her B.A. in Physics from Princeton University (as far as she knows, she was the[...]

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[...]

Small Business Saturday extravaganza! On November 29th, authors will volunteer at the store and talk about their favorite books! This is part of a nationwide Indies First campaign that pairs authors with indie bookstores, and[...]