Traverse City is the tenth most vibrant arts city

Traverse City has been named the tenth “Most Arts Vibrant Middle Size Community” in the U.S. by SMU DataArts, a national center for arts research at Southern Methodist University.
The shows go one for now, with hopes for spring

Looking ahead, the hope is that by spring, actors and audiences will be able to interact in person, if socially distanced.
Chasten Buttigieg: Traverse City Roots and What Lies Ahead

Chasten Buttigieg, husband of former Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg and a Traverse City native, will join the National Writers Series for a free virtual event on September 10 to discuss his memoir, I Have Something to Tell You.
Writers Series to launch Life in the Time of Virus

You’re hearing and reading a lot of stories about the Coronavirus in the media these days. But those stories aren’t your story. And that’s the one the National Writers Series (NWS) wants to make part of local history.
Traverse City’s Doug Stanton joins the likes of Spielberg, Terkel

Traverse City-based writer Doug Stanton has won the prestigious Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award from Rutgers Living History Society. Previous winners include Ken Burns, Steven Spielberg and Studs Terkel.
Art orgs land state grant funding

Twenty arts and cultural organizations in northwest Michigan have been approved for minigrant funds through the Michigan Council for the Arts & Cultural Affairs (MCACA) Regranting Program.
Approaching Ten Years of Authors and Audiences for NWS

National Writers Series announces fall lineup

Doug Stanton named Michiganian of the Year

National Writers Series releases Literary Journal
