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Author Fest Author Fest, our annual celebration of Minnesota authors and their books, will be June 17 this year. It's always a great chance to visit with authors, meet new authors, and get signed books. Noon—Crime Time The event will be at the American Legion, 900 E. 1st St. (Highway 34). |
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Reading Road Trip Grab your friends or family and plan a fun reading road trip across Minnesota! Pick up a Up North Reading Road Trip passport from any of these 5 indie bookstores: Four Pines Bookstore, Bluebird Books, The Willow Bookstore, Cherry Street Books, or Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery. Visit each bookstore between August 7th to 26th to get your card punched for a giveaway! Each bookstore will have their own giveaways and prizes to win during this time. You will leave your passport at the last bookstore you visit for a chance to win a gift basket of books! Passports will be available August 7. Use the #ReadingUpNorth hashtag to share your road trip and the books you are reading! |
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Three countries, three eras. In all of them we’ll encounter women challenging societal norms meant to hold them back.
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If you buy books for the retreat, we expect you to buy them from us. We’ll give you a 10% discount. Our fall retreats are a chance to get away for a relaxing weekend, talking about books with a great group of women, eating food someone else has prepared, all at a leisurely pace. Identical retreats will be held October 6–8 and 13–15. Currently we have one room (can accommodate 1 or 2 people) left for October 6-8 and the October 13–15 retreat is full, with a waiting list. Lots can change between now and October so if you’re interested, we encourage you to either sign up for October 6-8 (a $75 deposit will hold your place) or add your name to the wait list for October 13–15 (no deposit required to be on the wait list.) A registration form is available at the store and will be sent to those who have already signed up for the retreat. The cost of the retreat is $375.00, due two weeks before the event. If you’re not able to come, let us know right away. The deposit and balance are non-refundable unless we fill your spot. All participants must be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID. |
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Recent Prize Winners!
Caroline Harper New won the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry for her poetry collection, A History of Half-Birds, selected by Maggie Smith. New will receive $10,000 and her book will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2024.
Caroline Harper New is a poet and artist from southern Georgia with a background in anthropology. Her work includes ecopoetic short films, painting exhibitions, children’s book illustrations, and ethnographic research in Madagascar. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. New lives in Ann Arbor, MI with her partner and their tailless tortie cat.
In her judgment for the winning collection, Maggie Smith wrote:
"A History of Half-Birds, an inventive and impressively wide-ranging collection, has me considering and reconsidering the connections between seemingly disparate things: between poetry and science, both fueled by curiosity, imagination, and possibility; between history and myth, precision and ambiguity, the known and the unknown. In the Anthropocene, we may be tempted to ask what poetry can do for us when what we need are tools for survival. I’d argue that these poems are just that—expertly crafted, satisfying to hold and behold, and sharp enough to dissect what needs dissecting. We’re so lucky to have this book here and now."
The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced that Emily Riddle, author of The Big Melt (Nightwood Editions, 2022) is the winner of the 2023 Canadian First Book Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prizes were founded in 2000 to encourage and celebrate excellence in poetry. The Canadian First Book Prize is a new addition to the Griffin Prizes and is worth $10,000. Emily Riddle will be invited to participate in the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings and has been offered a six-week residency in Italy in partnership with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Readings will be held at Koerner Hall on Wednesday, June 7, and the evening will include a selection of readings by the finalists and this year’s Lifetime Recognition Award recipient.
The Big Melt is Emily Riddle’s debut collection. In addition to winning the Griffin Poetry Prize’s Canadian First Book Prize, it is also a finalist for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Awards and was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Poetry Prize, presented by the League of Canadian Poets. Rooted in nêhiyaw thought and urban millennial life events, it examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie ndn utopia in the era of late capitalism and climate change. Part memoir, part research project, this collection draws on Riddle’s experience working in Indigenous governance and her affection for confessional poetry in crafting feminist works that are firmly rooted in place.
Emily Riddle is nêhiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation (Kipohtakaw). A writer, editor, policy analyst, language learner and visual artist, she lives in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). She is the senior advisor of Indigenous relations at the Edmonton Public Library. Her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Teen Vogue, The Malahat Review and Room Magazine, among others. In 2021 she was awarded the Edmonton Artists’ Trust Award. Emily Riddle is a semi-dedicated Oilers fan and a dedicated Treaty Six descendant who believes deeply in the brilliance of the Prairies and their people.
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