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Writing festival features readings, workshops BOWLING GREEN, O.—The fifth annual Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, featuring some 40 workshops for writers of all abilities,
author readings and panel discussions, will be held Nov. 17-20 at Bowling Green State University.
Unusual in its appeal to writers of diverse abilities and genres—from novices to professionals—the festival has grown steadily
since its inception and now marks one of the most important literary events in the region. Workshops focus on such diverse
topics as finding one’s writer’s voice to submitting manuscripts for publication.
The Mid-American Review, a distinguished literary journal published at BGSU, sponsors the festival each year.
Fiction and nonfiction writer Steve Almond will kick off the festival with a reading Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bowen Thompson-Student
Union Theater. Almond is the author of the acclaimed, candy-infused, road-trip work of nonfiction “Candyfreak: A Journey Through
the Chocolate Underbelly of America,” as well as the short story collections “The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories” and “My
Life in Heavy Metal.”
Other featured readers include fiction writers Edith Pearlman, author of “How to Fall,”“Love Among the Greats” and “Vaquita,”
and Pushcart Prize nominee Tom Noyes, author of “Behold Faith.” Also reading will be poets George Looney, author of “The Precarious
Rhetoric of Angels,” Aimee Nezhukamatathil, author of “Miracle Fruit,” and Philip Memmer, author of “Sweetheart, Baby, Darling.”
“The metaphor of winter wheat is important,” says festival co-coordinator Karen Craigo, a published poet and Mid-American
Review editor. “Farmers plant winter wheat this time of year, and it’s the first green thing you see in the spring. The idea
is that we plant ideas to get through the long winter.” Craigo notes that another Mid-American Review-sponsored literary event,
Spring Harvest, offers writers an opportunity “to share their yield” in March.
For more information about the Winter Wheat Festival of Writing, contact Abigail Cloud, event co-coordinator, at clouda@bgnet.bgsu.edu.
Schedule and registration details are available at www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview.
The festival is free; participants not affiliated with BGSU are encouraged to make a donation of $50 for the weekend.
(Posted November 02, 2005 )
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