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The Great Michigan Read Grants

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

For more information on these and other Great Michigan Read events, link to www.greatmichiganread.org

February 13, 2008
Writing with the Right Words, presentation by author Ken Meisel. Ogemaw Heights High School, West Branch.

March 7, 2008
Nick Adams Stories word shop with Jack Petersen and Maryou Bugh. Ogemaw Heights High School, West Branch.

March 12, 2008
Nick Adams Stories discussion program with Les Sellers. Surline Elementary and Middle School, West Branch.

March 19, 2008
Nick Adams Stories discussion program with Les Sellers. Rose City Elementary and Middle School, Rose City.

April 16, 2008
Nick Adams Stories song and poetry with Steve Diebel. West Branch Public Library, West Branch.

May 14, 2008
Writing Out of Hibernation writing contest awards ceremony. West Branch Public Library, West Branch.

June 24, 2008
Nick Adams Stories discussion with One Book, One Month, One Evening discussion group. Featuring Les Sellers. West Branch Public Library, West Branch.

August 13-17, 2008
Nick Adams impersonations by Les Sellers. Ogemaw County Fair, West Branch.

October 18, 2008
Gateway to Writing workshop with keynote speaker, Judy Kerman. Northeast Michigan Arts Council, Standish.

A Year With Nick Adams: Hemingway in Mid-Michigan -- (2007)

Grant Awarded: November 2007

Type of Grant: We the People/The Great Michigan Read

Sponsors: West Branch Public Library

Collaborators: West Branch-Rose City Schools, Imagination Association, MidMichigan Writers, Northeast Michigan Arts Council

Contact: Debra Walker, 989-345-2235, debhebert@hotmail.com

Award: $7,500

A series of activities that are free to the public are planned for all age groups. In winter 2008, writing contest will be conducted at the Ogemaw Heights High School focusing on rites of passage and coming of age. Contest winners will be announced at the West Branch Public Library. A poet and musician will celebrate Hemingway and northern Michigan; a local impersonator will appear as Nick Adams at the Senior Center in West Branch and three schools; the impersonator will also tell Nick Adams stories at the Ogemaw County Fair where a cabin will be recreated as a facsimile of Ken’s Diner, the setting for one of the book’s stories. A writing workshop will also be held in Standish where the instructor will take an in-depth look at Hemingway’s influence on readers and writers. The focus will be on Michigan settings and the prose style of Hemingway. Copies of Nick Adams Stories will be given away as prizes at many of these events. Students in elementary and middle school grades will be asked to create art that depicts the story they hear and the artwork will be displayed at the county fair and the West Branch Public Library.