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Saturday, December 6, 2008
WSU Press at Noel Night
Wayne State University Press will be displaying books on the third floor of the Detroit Public Library at the annual Noel Night celebration in Midtown Detroit.
Coming Soon:
- Dec 21 - Dec 23: WSU Press at Association of Jewish Studies annual conference
This Month
Saturday, December 6, 2008
WSU Press at Noel Night
Wayne State University Press will be displaying books on the third floor of the Detroit Public Library at the annual Noel Night celebration in Midtown Detroit.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Jean Alicia Elster at Saginaw Barnes & Noble
Jean Alicia Elster will sign copies of her book Who's Jim Hines? at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Saginaw, Michigan (3311 Tittabawassee Rd.) on Saturday December 6, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Please call (989) 790-9214 for more information.
Sunday, December 21, 2008 – Tuesday, December 23, 2008
WSU Press at Association of Jewish Studies annual conference
Wayne State University Press will be displaying and selling our Jewish studies titles at the annual Association of Jewish Studies conference in Washington, DC.
Sunday, January 18, 2009 – Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Alex Pomson at RAVSAK conference
Alex Pomson, co-author of Back to School, will delliver the keynote address at the annual conference of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network in San Francisco.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
James W. Tottis at Shaman Drum
James W. Tottis, author of The Guardian Building, will sign copies of his new book at Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Jean Alicia Elster at Macomb Book Fair and Writers' Conference
Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who's Jim Hines?, will sell and sign copies of her book at the Macomb Book Fair and Writers' Conference from 9:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. She will also lead the workshop "Writing a Children's Book Series" at 10 a.m. Location: Mount Clemens Public Library, 150 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, Michigan. Free and open to the general public.
Awards
- Jim Daniels, author of In Line for the Exterminator, has won the Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence for Previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize for 2008.
- Karen Chase, author of Land of Stone: Breaking Silence Through Poetry, has won the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze medal in the category of Psychology/Mental Health. More Info
- The Women Were Leaving the Men by Andy Mozina is the winner of the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for fiction. More info
2008 Michigan Notable Books
Wayne State University Press titles featured in the Library of Michigan's annual selection 2008 Michigan Notable Books: Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project, and "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War by Mark Hoffman. More Info...- The Stains of Culture by Ruth Tsoffar has been selected as a runner-up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award, in the Women's Studies category. Press release
- The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough edited and with an Introductnion by Michele Valerie Ronnick and its related traveling photography installation have received the 2006 Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association. Press release
- Two Wayne State University Press books have won the 2006 Award of Merit from the Historical Society of Michigan. The winners are To Keep the South Manitou Light by Anna Egan Smucker and I Hope to Do My Country Service by Robert Beasecker.