A picture may be worth a thousand words, but we think a book is worth thousands more. See what newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and radio programs around the country have to say about the National Writers Series and the amazing authors who visit us.
Click one of our three categories–In the Media, Authors Next Door, or NWS Updates–to filter your results, or use the search bar to find a specific story!
NWS Author Next Door
September 2017
Robert "Bob" Downes is known to many readers in northern Michigan as the co-founder and former editor of Northern Express Weekly, which he and his partner, George Foster, established in 1991.
The partners sold the Express in 2013 and, with no plans for what to do with the rest of his life, Downes ...
NWS Author Next Door
August 2017
Sarah Shoemaker grew up in a suburb of Chicago and by the time she was in the third grade, she knew she wanted to be a writer, but it has been a long and circuitous path to get there. She has been a high school English teacher, a wife, a stay-at-home mom, a librarian at the University of Michigan and, ...
NWS Author Next Door
July 2017
Angie Morgan is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of SPARK: HOW TO LEAD YOURSELF AND OTHERS TO GREATER SUCCESS and LEADING FROM THE FRONT. She has written numerous articles on leadership and organizational excellence appearing in a wide variety of ...
NWS Author Next Door
June 2017
Elmore Leonard said about Jack Driscoll’s stories, "The guy can really write." And in The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot, he once again demonstrates in every sentence the grace and grit of a true storyteller. The ten stories are mostly set in Michigan’s northern lower peninsula, a landscape as ...
Poetry Reading: Fleda Brown, The Woods Are On Fire and Keith Taylor, The Bird-While
Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Horizon Books- Traverse City
Fleda Brown Our March Author Next Door, Fleda Brown will read from her latest work: The Woods are on Fire.
Poems about her brain-ged brother, a rickety family cottage, a ...