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Ninth Edition Updates!

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Walloon Writers Review Ninth Edition is in the hands of our design team!

We are so excited to share this news! More steps are ahead before this edition will be available in bookstores, but the first completion step is done. Watch for updates, including sneak peaks at our Contributors list, our cover reveal, which organization benefits from a portion of our Submission fees from this edition, and how you can pre-order copies! In a few weeks, we will share our expected release date.

We are grateful to everyone who sent in submissions for consideration. Walloon Writers Review carefully reviews each submission multiple times before making our final selections. With such an incredible response to our Call For Submissions this year, the process to select as many outstanding pieces as we could possibly accept was tough. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

Thanks goes to Co-Editor Glen Young for all of his dedication and contribution to this publication and to each of you for your support. We are always grateful to all of the amazing independent booksellers in Northern Michigan, the UP, and downstate Michigan for making Walloon Writers Review available for their customers. So many of our readers, visitors, and part-time neighbors travel from all corners of this beautiful state to enjoy Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula and they are a perfect spot to make that connection. Your support of purchasing, gifting, and sharing copies of Walloon Writers Review goes a long way in making this possible. Thank you! – Jennifer Huder

Call For Submissions for Walloon Writers Review Ninth Edition July 15 – August 30, 2024

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Through the first decade since its founding in 2014, Walloon Writers Review has provided a safe harbor where writers and photographers celebrate the sights and sounds of Northern Michigan. Through fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and photography, contributors continue to highlight the river bends and hilltops, as well as all the places in between, that mark this region as eternal.

As Walloon Writers Review embarks on our second decade, we seek both to build on this strong foundation, while also reimagining how the landscape of Northern Michigan continues to inspire and to influence writers and photographers. – Glen Young, Walloon Writers Review

General Guidelines

Walloon Writers Review is intended for a general audience, to be shared at the cottage, at camp, on the deck, or cabin bookshelf for all to enjoy. Our regional focus is on Northern Michigan, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (and the islands in between).

Submissions are accepted through Submittable.com during the above dates. Please visit our Submittable page for guidelines specific to this edition.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer feedback on submissions. In effort to include as many contributors as possible, only two submissions per person will be accepted for this edition.

Walloon Writers Review charges a reading fee of $6.00 per submission. Funds collected are used to offsets costs of producing this annual print publication and we also make an annual small donation to a regional non-profit organization working to protect the natural beauty of the region.

We include original poetry, short stories, and other creative writing (max: 4,000 words) and nature photography. Nature photography should not include people.

We hope you will share your Northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula inspired original work! Thank you for your support.

Please visit our Submittable page at https://walloonwritersreview.submittable.com/submit to learn more about specific guidelines and to submit your original creative writing and or nature photography for our upcoming edition!
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Welcoming A New Bookstore to northern Michigan – Hidden Nook Booksellers in Grayling!

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Great News! We are super excited to share the news about a new bookstore in our region! Thank you so much to Higgins Lake-area contributor Melissa Seitz for mentioning our northern Michigan & UP-inspired collection with Hidden Nook Booksellers! Hidden Nook Booksellers will soon have Walloon Writers Review on their shelves!

Located on Main Street in the downtown area of Grayling, Hidden Nook Booksellers will be open weekends-only beginning 10/29/23 – so be sure to stop by while you’re out leaf-peeping! Website is still under construction, but you can find them on Facebook.

Here is a link to an article about this exciting new bookstore from the Up North Voice (Crawford County):

Hidden Nook Booksellers are located at 207 E Michigan Avenue, Grayling.

INTRODUCING WALLOON WRITERS REVIEW EIGHTH EDITION!

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EXCITING NEWS! Walloon Writers Review Eighth Edition is officially released! Congratulations to all of our 59 ( yes, 59!) awesome Contributors! Be sure to scroll down to see who’s included in this impressive 196-page edition! Be sure to read the opening note by Associate Editor Glen Young when you get your copy. It sets the stage for the delightful collection you are about to experience.

We are still independent and that means upon our official Release, we are reaching out to booksellers and libraries across Michigan to let them know this exciting collection of northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula inspired short stories, poetry and nature photography is ready to order for their stores! Keep an eye out at your favorite bookseller! There’s something for everyone in this exploration of our incredible region.

Look at our tab: Where to Find Walloon Writers Review for updated places, like CANTERBURY BOOK STORE in Escanaba! JORDAN RIVER ARTS CENTER in East Jordan! And, since we goofed their name (cue eyeroll) and are blaming our cat, ADAMS MADAMS in Central Lake!

THE MARKETING COVER: Not shown, ISBN barcode!

Questions? Please email us at editor@walloonwriters.com

Booksellers and Gift Shops – please know that we are available on Ingram right now! Our ISBN bar code is printed right on the back. Email editor@walloonwriters.com for a Sell Sheet with pertinent details!!