2008 Woodie Awards
Writers Fest returns
Great Lakes Writers Fest back after eight years
Paul Davis
Issue date: 10/21/04 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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This year on November 4 and 5, Lakeland College will be hosting the Great Lakes Writer's Festival. Two writers, Paul Zimmer and Tom Montag, will be reading their work, helping in workshops, and working with Sheboygan county area high school students interested in the event.
Montag and Zimmer have both written several poetry books and a few memoirs. Montag currently is the professor for creative nonfiction at Lakeland. Professor Karl Elder asked Montag to teach the class after Montag was already scheduled to appear at the Writer's Festival.
At 11:00 a.m. on November 4, there will be readings from both writers for one hour. They will split the time into thirty minute segments.
From two until four in the afternoon there will be a workshop, followed by another hour long reading period, split between the two writers, at 7:30 p.m. At nine that night there will be book signings, conversations, and other events at the Bradley Building.
The second day is a great deal of working with high school students. The two writers will read, hold a workshop, and field questions for the high school students. As of now there are over 30 high school students attending.
At 2:30 p.m. there is another general public workshop for college students and members of the community.
Professor Elder hopes that this will be a reoccurring event, as it once was a regular festival that Lakeland held from 1991 to 1996.
Information about the festival can be found at greatlakeswritersfestival.com or greatlakeswritersfestival.org.
Montag and Zimmer have both written several poetry books and a few memoirs. Montag currently is the professor for creative nonfiction at Lakeland. Professor Karl Elder asked Montag to teach the class after Montag was already scheduled to appear at the Writer's Festival.
At 11:00 a.m. on November 4, there will be readings from both writers for one hour. They will split the time into thirty minute segments.
From two until four in the afternoon there will be a workshop, followed by another hour long reading period, split between the two writers, at 7:30 p.m. At nine that night there will be book signings, conversations, and other events at the Bradley Building.
The second day is a great deal of working with high school students. The two writers will read, hold a workshop, and field questions for the high school students. As of now there are over 30 high school students attending.
At 2:30 p.m. there is another general public workshop for college students and members of the community.
Professor Elder hopes that this will be a reoccurring event, as it once was a regular festival that Lakeland held from 1991 to 1996.
Information about the festival can be found at greatlakeswritersfestival.com or greatlakeswritersfestival.org.