Anne Stanton

Anne Stanton is the co-founder and executive director of the National Writers Series.
As Stanton’s Story Hits Theaters, Hollywood’s Lights Shine On Traverse City
Meet January's Author Next Door: Jay Harrington
If fairies were to live anywhere, they would live along a stretch of the Cedar Cathedral Trail in the Grand Traverse Commons, called the Fairy Trails Project. Along these paths, tiny houses made of pine cones, shells, and rocks invite woodland fairies to inhabit their own little corners of Traverse City. The Fairy Trails Project […]
Meet December's Author Next Door: Michael Taillard
By Anna Faller December, 2017 Prolific author, Michael Taillard, was not always a writer — at least, not by trade. Taillard actually began college as a tuba performance major and part-time body piercer, but after taking his first economics course, he says, “everything just kind of clicked.” Taillard was initially drawn to economics by the […]
Anne Stanton: Battle of the Books in its third year
Coming Home in a Fractured Society: The National Writers Series Hosts Authors Phil Caputo and Sebastian Junger
The Get Around: A 2-on-1 Interview with Dr. Murray Howe
NWS Author Next Door: Marina Nieman Call
Author Next Door: Marina Nieman Call November 2017 Marina Call is a freelance writer currently working on her second novel. Originally from southern California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in History of Art and Architecture. She continued her studies in Rome where she completed her Global MBA from St. […]
The Guy Can Actually Write
Meet Author Next Door: Jennifer Weil
Jennifer C. Weil says it might seem a cliché, but she sees the ordinary in the extraordinary and the extraordinary in the ordinary. “It’s an implicit relationship. It might even be necessary for happiness,” said Weil, who recently published Coral Tree: A Costa Rican Canon, a set of short stories inspired by time she and her husband have spent in Costa Rica over […]