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Welcome!
Michigan Writers Network is an online interactive community
where all Michigan writers can share ideas, discuss their craft,
and learn about the interests and current work of fellow authors.
Whether writing by profession or for pleasure, we encourage all
people interested in the craft of writing to join one or more of
our listserv discussions. Currently, these
discussion are arranged around the categories of playwriting, poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction, children's literature, and journalism.
Funded by a grant from the Michigan
Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and sponsored by Michigan
State University's MATRIX: The
Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online,
this endeavor is part of a larger initiative to support literature
and creative writing within the state.
Press
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Playing for Keeps:
Sport in the lives of women was the focus for writing workshops led by Anita Skeen as part of a year long celebration of women in sports and the arts and humanities at Michigan State University.
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In
mid-August Michigan-based writer, poet, anthropologist, and filmmaker,
Ruth Behar will be joining us as our third featured writer. We will
be pleased to present this interview and a multimedia presentations
of readings by Behar by the end of the month. Currently a Professor
of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor, Behar creatively explores her unique vision of home
and her Jewish Sephardic and Cuban-American roots through a variety
of art forms. Her ties to the Spanish-speaking world allow Behar
to passionately turn to different media with which she can express
herself, and we look forward to presenting this dimension of her
work in our audiovisual presentations. For more information about
the writer, go to www.ruthbehar.com.
Go
to the Featured Writer page to learn
more about Jeanine Hathaway, and listen not only to her read from
her works but also to our conversation. In our first issue, our
inaugural Featured Writer was knowned poet and essayist Thomas
Lynch.
If
you have any questions about the Michigan Writers Network,
please do not hesitate to contact any member of our coordinating
team:
Joy Palmer: mwn@mail.matrix.msu.edu
Annie Balocating: mwn@mail.matrix.msu.edu
Anita Skeen: skeen@msu.edu

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MATRIX:
The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online
310 Auditorium, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1120
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Phone:
517.355.9300
Fax: 355 8363
http://matrix.msu.edu
Last Updated: 4/26/2002 |