Fiction/Poetry Contest Reading at the 2011 Wisconsin Book Festival

Wisconsin People & Ideas editor Jason A. Smith and literary editor John Lehman host an evening of the best poetry and fiction by up-and-coming Wisconsin writers at the Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Short Story and Poetry Contest reading event during the 2011 Wisconsin Book Festival. This annual event takes place at Avol's Books in Madison and highlights the winners of our annual poety contest and short story contest, both accepting submissions from September 15 to December 15 and awarding prizes up to $500. More details on the annual contests can be found on our Contest page. Featured 2011 poets include Michael Kriesel (Aniwa), Kathleen Dale (Milwaukee), and Jessi Peterson (Eau Claire), and Allison Slavick (Cable), Marysa LaRowe (Madison), Kathryn Gahl (Two Rivers) read their prize-winning stories.

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Kathleen Dale

Kathleen Dale is not yet seventy years old. However, she can begin to imagine what seventy and "final things" may feel like. The joys of water, poetry, and music will be forever linked in her mind. A Pushcart nominee, Dale has been published in numerous journals and has taught university writing courses for many years. Dale is...

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Kathryn Gahl

Kathryn Gahl is a performance poet who lives in rural Wisconsin. She loves dancing the Tango, wearing vintage clothing, and sporting red lipstick. Kathryn’s poems and fiction appear in over thirty-five literary journals—for this, she tells us, she is grateful.

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Michael Kriesel

Michael Kriesel's poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, North American Review, The Progressive, Rattle, and Verse Wisconsin, and he's written reviews for Library Journal and Small Press Review. Winner of the 2003 Lorine Niedecker Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the 2009 Muse Prize from the...

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Marysa LaRowe

Marysa LaRowe grew up near Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Isthmus, The Southeast Review, and Matchbook. Marysa is currently persuing her MFA in fiction at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Jessi Peterson

Jessi Peterson lives in a hand-built cordwood house on land her great grandfather settled, surrounded by her family, far too many books, and an insufferable cat. She works at the public library in Eau Claire serving children and young adults. Peterson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her work has previously appeared...

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Allison Slavick

Allison Slavick's writing is inspired by the emotional and spiritual strength people draw from nature, and she develops her stories while berry picking, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. She lives in Cable, Wisconsin.

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Fiction/Poetry Contest Reading at the 2011 Wisconsin Book Festival

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