Antrim Writers Series

WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW

This program brings Michigan authors to Antrim County to share their fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry, teach writing workshops, and write about locations that are an integral part of our county’s landscape. 

All events are free of charge and open to the public.

The Elk Rapids and Bellaire Public Libraries have provided free copies of the authors’ books to the first 25 people who register for one of these free events. In addition, Deep Woods Press provides mini-broadsides of a short excerpt of the authors’ work, which are signed and distributed to the audience at the reading.

NEXT EVENT: DESIREE COOPER

Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, former attorney, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist. Her debut collection of flash fiction," Know the Mother," won numerous awards, including 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award. Cooper’s children’s picture book, "Nothing Special," is a 2023 Paterson Prizewinner and included on the New York Public Library’s “10 Best Children’s Books of 2022.” 

A Special Thank You to Our Supporters

2024-2025 Antrim Writers Series Season

In 2024-25, The Antrim Writers Series was awarded a Michigan Humanities Council grant to bring four additional Michigan-based authors (Mary Kay Zuravleff, Fleda Brown, John Mauk, and Christine Maul Rice) to Antrim County, once again to read their work at Bos Winery and Bee Well Cider and Meadery, and lead a writing workshop for the community. Each of these authors visited the Grass River Natural Area and wrote about this location. Sam Hall, a local artist, will illustrate these pieces of writing, and the artist and authors’ work will be installed on signs onsite at Grass River in the late summer of 2025. 

2023-2024 Antrim Writers SEries Season

In 2023-24, The Antrim Writers Series was awarded a Traverse City Rotary Seed grant to bring four Michigan-based authors (Keith Taylor, Jerry Dennis, Anne-Marie Oomen, and Brittany Cavallaro) from August through May to read their work and lead writing workshops for the community. The readings were held at Bos Winery in Elk Rapids and Bee Well Cider and Meadery in Bellaire. Each author visited a Grand Traverse Land Conservancy site in Antrim county during their time here; after their visit, they wrote about these places. A Rotary Charities Seed Grant funded their work to be placed on all-weather signs and installed on site at Glacial Hills, Wilcox-Palmer-Shah, Antrim Creek, and Six Mile-St. Clair Lake Natural Areas in the summer of 2024.