Michigan Writers Cooperative Press

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  Michigan Writers is proud to announce the release of the newest titles in our Cooperative Press chapbook series. Poets Leigh Fairey, Holly Wren Spaulding, and Catherine Turnbull -- all residents of Northwest Lower Michigan -- are the third set of emerging writers to be selected and published by the innovative press.
    "These writers have it all-beautiful language, sophisticated ideas and clear, individual voices," said Anne-Marie Oomen, a MW director who helped coordinate the chapbook contest.
    The 2008 titles are:

• Dangerous Exuberance by Leigh Fairey, an English teacher and librarian who lives in Leelanau County.
• The Grass Impossibly by Holly Wren Spaulding, who teaches creative writing at Northwestern Michigan College, does occasional work in independent film, and runs her own business. She lives on the Leelanau Peninsula.
• The Chocolatier Speaks of His Wife by Catherine Turnbull, Writer-in-Residence at The Children's House in Traverse City.

 

    "From chocolate to the moon, these three chapbooks offer a beguiling range of topic and voice and the sweet energy of well-crafted language on the page," Oomen says. "Readers will also be delighted with the gorgeous book design by Heather Shaw."

 

 

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