Events

Saturday, September 30 at 1pm     2413 Parkview Ave.   Free

Authors Kelly Fordon, Laura Hulthen Thomas, and Lolita Hernandez — each with titles published in Wayne State University’s Made in Michigan writers series — discuss how their fiction transforms home into character. How do writers use assumptions about familiar places to find the unexpected and surprising? When is a hometown the whole trouble, and also the last, best hope for change? They’ll also talk about how the unique landscape of the upper Midwest inspires their fiction.

This panel is preceded by a Local Writers Brown Bag Lunch & Gabfest at noon; drop in early to chat & check out the current roster of writers groups meeting at Kazoo Books.

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Saturday, Septmber 30 at NOON    2413 Parkview     Free

We’re hosting a brown bag lunch for local writers — particularly those interested in joining or starting a writing group. Reps from current groups will be on hand to chat, and we’re also looking to see what others could be added to the schedule. Drop in! It will be a casual, chatty affair. A light lunch will be provided, or bring your own.

This event precedes the Home Plate writers panel. Stick around and hear Kelly Fordon, Lolita Hernandez and Laura Hulthen Thomas talk about fictionalizing familiar places.

Sunday, September 24; 11am-5pm

The day will be filled with draft animal farming field demos (oxen and draft horses), skill-sharing in the blacksmithing and woodshops, sorghum harvest and pressing (to make molasses), ox-driving, wagon rides, an all-day shoe-making demo by Cliff Pequet from the Center for Traditional Arts in Shipshewana, IN, an herb-walk, a solar power demo by Art Toy, a barrel firing, fiber spinning, wheat threshing, not to mention vendors, live music (including a shape-note singing workshop), and local food trucks. Kids should be prepared to meet the challenge of the Harvest Fest farm-wide scavenger hunt.

Steven Mack Jones will be reading from his new, Detroit-based mystery August Snow on September 18th at Parchment Community Library at 6:30 pm.