2024 Night for Notables by The Library of Michigan

Images from the 2024 Night for Notables event.

The Library of Michigan and Library of Michigan Foundation celebrated the 2024 Michigan Notable Books (MNB) at the annual Night for Notables event on Saturday, April 20 at the Library of Michigan. The event included a pre-event reception in the Library of Michigan’s Rare Book Room followed by a program in the Forum with remarks by Library of Michigan Foundation Chair Brian Hare and State Librarian Randy Riley. Attending 2024 MNB Authors were individually honored, and 2-time Michigan Notable Books honoree Stephen Mack Jones provided the keynote address. An after-glow reception was held in the Library of Michigan’s atrium where event attendees could meet with MNB authors.

Special thanks to the authors, event sponsors, and everyone who made the 2024 Night for Notables possible. A selection of high-resolution images are available on the Michigan Notable Books page: https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb/previous-notables/2024-night-for-notables

Missed our 2nd Saturday meeting in 2023 with Debra Owsley, a literary product specialist!! #meetup #motownwriters [video]

Debra Owsley was one of our speakers from last year’s Motown Writers 2nd Saturday meetup. Great information that you will enjoy.

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Author Danielle Resh will read from her novel, Clarity of Sight, book two of the Magic Shoe Series. And author Sylvia Hubbard will speak about Goals for Authors: Learn to build up SEO, increase ROI, and create a way put more eyes on your writing and more money for your bank account. 

WRITERS’ NIGHT OUT 2024

Schedule for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:00 p.m. Welcome guests, food served, networking
6:45 p.m. Danielle Resh
7:15 p.m. Sylvia Hubbard
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WRITERS’ NIGHT OUT 2024

Schedule for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:00 p.m. Welcome guests, food served, networking
6:45 p.m. Danielle Resh
7:15 p.m. Sylvia Hubbard
8:00 p.m. Museum tours, social hour
9:00 p.m. Thank you for coming and goodnight

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 Author Danielle Resh will read from her novel, Clarity of Sight, book two of the Magic Shoe Series. And author Sylvia Hubbard will speak about Goals for Authors: Learn to build up SEO, increase ROI, and create a way put more eyes on your writing and more money for your bank account. 

Last Chance! Pitch Agents at the Michigan Writing Workshop (May 4, 2024) Metro Detroit #motownwriters

This is a final reminder about the 2024 Michigan Writing Workshop happening soon — a one-day writers conference this Saturday, May 4, in the Livonia/Novi area, where you can pitch your book to agents in one-on-one meetings, and enjoy classes on writing & publishing. The event is taking registrations all the way through May 4. All details are below (our previous email). If you want to attend the conference, just reply and let us know. That’s all. Hope you can join us! If you can’t make the event but want to attend an online conference, you can find more information here.

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Join us for a spectacular Literary Night with #RochesterWriters May 8th #WritersNightOut #michlit #mittenlit #syllit #motownwriters

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WRITERS’ NIGHT OUT 2024

Schedule for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:00 p.m. Welcome guests, food served, networking
6:45 p.m. Danielle Resh
7:15 p.m. Sylvia Hubbard
8:00 p.m. Museum tours, social hour
9:00 p.m. Thank you for coming and goodnight

RSVP Now!

 Author Danielle Resh will read from her novel, Clarity of Sight, book two of the Magic Shoe Series. And author Sylvia Hubbard will speak about Goals for Authors: Learn to build up SEO, increase ROI, and create a way put more eyes on your writing and more money for your bank account. 

Pitch Literary Agents at the Michigan Writing Workshop (May 4, 2024) in Metro Detroit

Brian Klems & Chuck Sambuchino here — to tell you that the 2024 Michigan Writing Workshop is coming up fast on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Embassy Suites Livonia/Novi. Join us! If you’re getting this email, you’ve either attended a conference before or inquired about one. (If you’ve already signed up for 2024, thank you!)

The event is a one-day writers conference with classes as well as 9 literary agents & editors in attendance meeting writers one-on-one:

https://michiganwritingworkshop.com/

To register: If you want to sign up for the in-person Michigan (Livonia/Novi) writers conference, all you have to do is email us back and let us know. That’s it. At that point, we will reply and send you registration instructions. Look for that new email response from us ASAP!

This Michigan-area one-day-writers conference (930 am – 500 pm, May 4, 2024) is a chance to enjoy instructional classes, and also hear advice directly from our 9 attending literary agents & editors. We hosted the MWW in-person before COVID and are pleased to once again bring it to you live.

If you’re instead interested in an online conference, we coordinate one of those each month. Each has 30-40 attending agents, and you can see the full event list here: http://www.writingdayworkshops.com/event-locations–dates.html (Our next online event is the Ohio Writing Workshop on May 10-11, 2024.)

Our Writing Day Workshops conferences draw great writing talent and amazing literary agents. We have many, many success stories listed where writers have signed with agents at our conferences.

The Michigan website addresses pricing, details, location, attending agents, class schedules for May 4, and more. That said, we are happy to address any questions you have. Again, if you want to Register for the 2024 event, just respond to this email and let us know.

Our writers conference events rely on word-of-mouth from attendees and area writers. Any last-minute word-spreading you do about the conference is appreciated and valuable. Thank you for considering telling friends and regional writing groups.

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