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Friday and Saturday. September 7-8, 2007 |
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Friday and Saturday. September 7-8, 2007 |
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News and Events
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NEWS AND EVENTS
All 2007 Spring Green Literary Festival authors are confirmed: two Pulitzer Prize-winners, and a wonderful writer and humorist. Claudia Emerson, the 2006 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry; author and humorist, Michael Perry; and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for International Journalism, Anthony Shadid, will be at the 2007 Spring Green Literary Festival on September 7-8. The featured books for the 2007 Spring Green Literary Festival will be:
Click here for a .pdf of this year's brochure (1 MB). This requires Adobe Reader 7.0. Click here to download the latest version of Adobe Reader (this is free). Please note that the Writers Workshop has been sold out.
On the first Monday of the month, mostly, at the Spring Green General Store and Cafe, those interested in reading and hearing poetry from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring their own original work to share, and to read favorites by other authors. Songwriters also bring their guitars and sing or play their original works. All are open. Open mic. The Schedule is as follows:
The Spring Green Literary Festival Board sponsors a spring and summer Community Book Club, beginning in April and ending in August. Discussions will be held on the second Thursday of the month in the Community Room of the Spring Green Library. Three of the readings will be from books on the literary festival program. All who reside in or near the River Valley are invited. This is excellent preparation for the literary festival in September. The Book Club meets from 7:00-8:30 p.m. The schedule is as follows: April 12: Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, by Michael Perry May 10: Down in the Valleys, by Robert E. Gard, in honor of Spring Green's Sesquicentennial. Copies of this book are available through the South Central Wisconsin Library system. June 14: The Late Wife Poems, by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Claudia Emerson July 12: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Anthony Shadid August 9: Truck: A Love Story, by Michael Perry Sponsored by the Spring Green Literary Festival, the Spring Green Community Library, and the Friends of the Spring Green Library.
Book lovers and writers in and near the River Valley came to a community potluck and book exchange on Sunday, March 11 from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 p.m. at the Spring Green Library Community room. In addition to good food, participants were treated to readings of featured books for LitFest 2007. The names of the three acclaimed authors participating in the tenth annual Spring Green Literary Festival were officially announced, their books were on display, and a set of three were given away to a lucky participant. Excerpts from the authors books were read by actors Sarah Day and Paul Bentzen of the American Players Theater, and David Giffey, editor of the Spring Green Home News. Sarah has been a volunteer board member of the Spring Green Literary Festival since its founding.
In late 2005, David and Eileen Roeder, owners of Tranquility Canoes gracefully consented to give the Spring Green Literary Festival one of their Serenity canoes to raffle.
Between April and October 2006, members of the Spring Green Literary Festival board of directors sold over $5,000 worth of tickets, through rain, heat, and cold. On October 22, 2006, the canoe, Serenity #42, was awarded to Ruth Venable from Beloit, Wisconsin. She purchased her winning ticket at the Spring Green Arts and Crafts Fair in June. The Spring Green Literary Festival Board is deeply grateful to the makers of Tranquility Canoes for their generosity in donating this beautiful, functional work of art. With the proceeds, the board can continue to attract the best authors and poets to the annual literary festival. |
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