by Jill Stukenberg | Oct 22, 2020 | Videos
Join us as Jill Stukenberg reads her award-winning story from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. This Facebook Live reading series is part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters and our Wisconsin...
by Gary Jones | Oct 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
Tourists celebrate Door County’s Washington Island for its majestic scenery and Scandinavian heritage. But Thomas Davis’ new novel, In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, reveals the island’s lesser known history as an 1850s refuge for runaway African American slaves....
by Jacquelyn Thomas | Sep 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
My father eats braunschweiger sandwiches, thick ones he squeezes tight to hold together. He holds them with the hand that’s missing a finger. Bread fills in the empty space. It bulges out like a roll of fat. His good hand is taking a nap. It’s a boulder that doesn’t...
by Ann Zindler | Sep 29, 2020 | Videos
Ann Zindler reads from her award-winning story, “The Rescue,” from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. Ann is a teacher of seventh-grade reading and writing. She has been a writer herself since the third grade, and is the third-place winner...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 3, 2020 | Videos
Gwendolyn Rice reads her award-winning story, “Secret Recipe,” from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. This Facebook Live reading series is part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters...