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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 Release

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.

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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