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The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference has become an affiliate of Bookshop, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores.


Bookshop believes that bookstores “are essential to a healthy culture. They’re where authors can connect with readers, where we discover new writers, where children get hooked on the thrill of reading that can last a lifetime. They’re also anchors for our downtowns and communities.” We couldn’t agree more!

We’ve joined Bookshop’s mission to support local bookstores by joining their affiliate program which pays 10% commission on every sale. Proceeds earned will be used to help support the MNWC.

Join us in helping Bookshop “strengthen the fragile ecosystem and margins around bookselling and keep local bookstores an integral part of our culture and communities.”

MNWC 2021 Reading Guide

Nikky Finney

Distinguished Visiting Writer

  • Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

  • Head Off & Split: Poems

  • Rice

  • The World is Round

  • Heartwood

John Murillo

Poet

  • Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

  • Up Jump the Boogie





Faith Adiele

Memoirist, Essayist

J. Drew Lanham

Essayist, Memoirist, Poet

  • The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

  • Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts

Danielle Evans

Fiction

  • The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

  • Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Jennifer Foerster

Poet

  • Bright Raft in the Afterweather

  • Leaving Tulsa

Sean Hill

Poet & MNWC Conference Director

  • Blood Ties and Brown Liquor

  • Dangerous Goods

Archived Book Guides

Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference 2020

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Distinguished Visiting
Writer


  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  • Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Elizabeth Bradfield

Poetry
Workshop Leader


  • Toward Antarctica

  • Once Removed: Poems

  • Approaching Ice

  • Interpretive Work

Brenda Shaughnessy

Poetry
Workshop Leader


  • The Octopus Museum: Poems

  • So Much Synth

  • Our Andromeda

  • Human Dark with Sugar

Scott Russell Sanders

Fiction
Workshop Leader

  • The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel

  • Meeting Trees

  • Crawdad Creek

  • Stone Country: Then and Now

  • Dancing in Dreamtime: Stories

  • Divine Animal: A Novel

  • Earth Works: Selected Essays

  • Floating House

  • A Conservationist Manifesto

  • The Force of Spirit: Essays

  • The Country of Language

  • Writing from the Center

  • Terrarium: A Novel

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Creative Nonfiction
Workshop Leader

  • Stairway to Heaven: Poems

  • Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit

  • Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

  • Rope: Poems

  • Writing the Sacred into the Real

  • Science and Other Poems

Meera Subramanian

Creative Nonfiction
Workshop Leader

  • A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis

The Northwoods & Donald Jordan Reading Series Book Guide

Debra Jo Immergut

Poet

  • You Again
  • The Captives
  • Private Property, Stories

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Fiction Writer

  • Lava Falls: Stories
  • The Evolution of Love, a novel
  • A Thin Bright Line, a novel
  • The Big Bang Symphony, a novel
  • Biting the Apple, a novel
  • The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic
  • This Wild Silence, a novel
  • Working Parts, a novel
  • Sweat: Stories and a Novella
  • How to Survive in Antarctica
  • The Antarctic Scoop
  • Hoop Girlz
  • Cougar Canyon
  • Tracks in the Snow
  • The Big Bike Race

Donald Jordan

Fiction Writer

  • Negative Space
  • Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

James Han Mattson

Fiction Writer

  • The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves





This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.