Southeastern WI Arts guild launches new website page dedicated to MKE authors, writers and poets!Southeastern WI Arts Guild is proud to serve members of the literary community with a custom profile page dedicated to helping them to help others experience creative writing and the creative writing process in a meaningful and effective way. Metro Milwaukee's rich and diverse literary scene features novelists, poets, essayists, bloggers, playwrights and more. A small handful of the many renowned authors and writers who were born, raised and/or lived in southeast Wisconsin includes: C.J. Hribal (MU English Professor, Fellow & Award Winning Author), Liam Callanan (UWM Associate Professor, English Department Chair & Creative Writer), James Liddy (Poet Laureate), Manette Ansay (Award Winning Novelist), Margot Peters (Award Winning Author), Jane Hamilton (Award Winning Novelist), John Koethe (Milwaukee's First Poet Laureate), John Gurda (Milwaukee Writer & Historian), Lesley Kagen (New York Times Bestselling Author), Larry Schue (Playwright, The Nerd and The Foreigner), Stephen E. Ambrose (Historian), JoAnn Early Macken (Children's Author), Barbara Joose (Children's Author), and more. Milwaukee literary culture blooms in many nooks of the city. UWM has one of the nation's only PhDs in Creative Writing. Multiple independent bookstores hold writing circles and author events including Boswell Book Company, Woodland Pattern Books, and The Reader. Every spring, Boone Dryden, Niki Robinson and other area writers organize a free open space writing conference called WriteCamp Milwaukee. In addition, several area writers are involved in running programs that teach writing to children and teens in the city, including Dasha Kelly's Stillwaters Collective and Rochelle Melander's Dream Keepers. |
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