by Jason Smith, Georgia Ressmeyer, Hansa Kerman Pistotnik, Nicholas Gulig, Ann Zindler, Jeff Esterholm, Bob Wake | Nov 3, 2017 | Videos
Watch the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading at the 2017 Wisconsin Book Festival, featuring some of Wisconsin’s best writers and poets. 2017 award-winning short story writers/readers are Bob Wake (Cambridge), Jeff Esterholm...
by Nikki Kallio, Kathryn Gahl, Kathleen Dale, Lisa Vihos | Oct 23, 2015 | Videos
Every year Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s quarterly magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture, hosts fiction and poetry contests that garners hundreds of submissions from across the state. In addition to securing cash prizes of up to $500...
by Hope McLeod | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
My best friend’s grandmothersurvived the holocaust.Lived in a tiny roomoff of the kitchenate like a birdyet wanted to be near food.Others in the houseslept in huge bedroomswith tall ceilings and sliding glass doors.She preferred small placesand a window just big...
by Jill Stukenberg | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The day her children went over the cliff on the hiking trail at Eagle Crest, Regina Mayer was in the park gift shop, idly fingering a pair of sunglasses that she knew she wasn’t going to buy, that she didn’t even like the look of but had removed from their holes in...
by J.K. Dane | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Someone has stolen my glasses again. I suspect Sylvia Shapiro because she can’t quit crowing about how darling she thinks they are. I think they’re gaudy. My daughter Dorothy bought them for me, but now they are gone. I also suspect Bobby. ...
