During BookMania Week, ticket holders can enjoy these SPECIAL RESTAURANT PROMOTIONS: For the ENTIRE BookMania Week, Zakey’s will give a 20% discount to ticket holders. On October 15 after Sarah Chayes’s event, they will stay open until 10 … Continue reading
September 2015
Are you a Bookmaniac?
National Writer’s Series: “Cooked Book” Commercial for Bookmania Book Festival from Novum Productions on Vimeo. Then we have the festival for you: BOOKMANIA. Starts October 7th.
Are you a seriously addicted BookManiac?
Anne Stanton, NWS co-founder and Executive Director
CHECK OUT BOOKMANIA WEEK! One mind-blowing, page-turning week of books and authors in downtown Traverse City, Michigan. Six Authors in Six Days = Endless Conversations! Join the conversation with America’s best authors and meet your friends. It’s the power of … Continue reading
The United States of Books
Anne Stanton, NWS co-founder and Executive Director
Entertainment Weekly chose Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River as THE book that best captures the spirit of Michigan. Come see Bonnie Jo on the City Opera House stage on October 13 at 7 pm, and we … Continue reading
Just announced: Leslie Lee and the Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation endowed NWS’s first student scholarship
By Anne Stanton, NWS Executive Director and Co-Founder
Executive Director Anne Stanton thanked Leslie Lee and the Herrington-Fitch Foundation for her donation of $25,000. This was the first endowment of three $1,000 scholarships, which are awarded awarded each year in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry to … Continue reading
Hundreds of fans were in the audience at the Opera House as author Hampton Sides talked with series co-founder Doug Stanton, reported Caroline Powers of TV 9&10.
Anne Stanton, NWS co-founder and Executive Director
“The night allowed fans to get an inside look at Sides’ writing, his newest book, In the Kingdom of Ice, and why he loves going on book tours. “Publishers and publicists will traditionally send you to New York, … Continue reading
How do you know a person has true grit?
That’s the recurring theme of author Hampton Sides’ internationally bestselling books, beginning with Ghost Soldiers. Hampton will be here in Traverse City on Thursday, Sept. 17, at the City Opera House to talk about his latest book, In the Kingdom of Ice. Hampton … Continue reading
We fell for nine fabulous authors for the fall of 2015. Kick-off was last night!
Marta Hepler Drahos, Traverse City Record-Eagle
A local memoirist, a former sports writer, historical nonfiction writers and an NPR correspondent/U.S. cabinet advisor join best-selling novelists for the new National Writers Series season. Read all about it
NWS September Author Next Door Spotlight: Barbara Stark-Nemon
Anne Stanton, NWS co-founder and Executive Director
Every story needs a narrator, and Barbara Stark-Nemon stepped up early in life. She learned storytelling, and a fascination with the magic of language from her grandfather, an attorney who escaped Germany in 1938 and wove unforgettable tales … Continue reading
New Season Announcement!
Anne Stanton, NWS co-founder and Executive Director
We are thrilled to announce that tickets went on sale September 2 for our entire fall season. Events range from a doomed journey to the North Pole to “fierce” women in far-flung places to an insider’s account of how … Continue reading
