KPL Videos: writing — Kalamazoo Public Library

RAWK Writing Workshop-Prompt #2: Marvel’s Black Panther

RAWK Prompt #2: Marvel’s Black Panther Calling all writers! RAWK will host a workshop series during Geek Fest Month with three prerecorded video writing prompts and a final, live, virtual workshop on…

Recorded 10/13/2020

Categories: Entertainment; Instructional; Teen

Tags: Instructional; teens; writing

RAWK Writing Workshop-Prompt #1: Afrofuturism

Calling all writers! RAWK will host a workshop series during Geek Fest Month

Recorded 10/06/2020

Categories: Teen

Tags: teens; writing

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains & the Making of the Novel. Reading Together 2016 author Christina Baker Kline is the author of the #1 New…

Recorded 03/07/2016

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; culture; history; reading together; writing

How to Write Your Own Obituary

Obituaries should honor the past, preserve it for the future, and give comfort in the present – but they’re tough to write at the last minute. Kalamazoo Public Library Information…

Recorded 10/15/2015

Categories: Instructional

Tags: culture; genealogy; history; writing

"Mothers, Tell Your Daughters" Book Release Event

National Book Award finalist and local literary treasure Bonnie Jo Campbell read from her newly released story collection, “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.”

Recorded 10/15/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; culture; writing

How to Write Your Own Obituary (or anyone else's)

Obituaries should honor the past, preserve it for the future, and give comfort in the present – but they’re tough to write at the last minute. Kalamazoo Public Library Information…

Recorded 10/15/2015

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: history; writing

"Crenshaw" Book Release Event

Recent Newbery Medal winner Katherine Applegate hosted a release event for her upcoming novel, “Crenshaw.”

Recorded 09/22/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; writing

"Louder Than a Bomb" Poetry Workshop

Kevin Coval, co-founder of “Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival” and called “the voice of the new Chicago” by the Chicago Tribune, returned to Kalamazoo Public Library…

Recorded 06/22/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; culture; poetry; writing

Waking up Your Garden: A Writer's Perspective

Sarah Stewart, respected author of “The Gardener” and “The Money Tree,” both illustrated by David Small, gives a writer’s perspective of preparing your garden in the springtime.

Recorded 04/07/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: agriculture; author; writing

A Conversation about the Craft and Business of Writing

A casual classroom-style conversation with Jerry Dennis, author of “The Living Great Lakes,” Kalamazoo Public Library’s 2015 Reading Together selection. Jerry talks about his writing process and how he got…

Recorded 03/04/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; reading together; writing

The Great Lakes in Our Lives

Author Jerry Dennis shared his adventures and misadventures while writing The Living Great Lakes, Kalamazoo Public Library’s 2015 Reading Together title. Dennis discussed the impact of the lakes on the…

Recorded 03/03/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; michigan; reading together; writing

10 Steps to Self-Publishing

Publisher and self-published author Sonya Hollins shows participants how to form the concept of a book, design it, and sell it. Hollins is the founder of Season Press LLC in…

Recorded 02/17/2015

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; writing

Walter Dean Myers @ Powell Branch Library

The late Walter Dean Myers, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, talked about his work and answered questions. Powell Branch Library, Kalamazoo, MI, Wednesday, August 7, 2013.

Recorded 08/07/2013

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; education; teens; writing

Walter Dean Myers @ Central Library

The late Walter Dean Myers, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, talked about his work and answered questions. Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo, MI, Tuesday, August 6, 2013.

Recorded 08/06/2013

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; education; teens; writing

Youth Literature Seminar 2011

Eli Neiburger, associate director for IT & Production at Ann Arbor District Library and author of Gamers…in the Library? and youth literary agent Barry Goldblatt spoke at the 34th annual…

Recorded 11/04/2011

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: author; children; culture; education; michigan; writing

Author Wade Rouse @ KPL

Critically acclaimed memoirist Wade Rouse reads and discusses his books, I’m Not The Biggest Bitch In This Relationship and It’s All Relative at Kalamazoo Public Library, October 5, 2011.

Recorded 10/05/2011

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Timely Topics

Tags: author; culture; writing

On the Street

Author Marianne Novak Houston and photographer Anthony B. Graves discuss “On the Street,” a collection of poems and prose, which tells the histories, dreams, and realities of individuals living on…

Recorded 09/28/2011

Categories: Authors @ KPL; Timely Topics

Tags: author; culture; poetry; writing

Author Marc Adams @ KPL

Marc Adams, author of the acclaimed history Mr. America, which The Washington Post named a Best Book of 2009, and the New York Times bestsellers Turn Right at Machu Picchu, which Men’s Journal selected as one of…

Recorded 08/08/2011

Categories: Authors @ KPL

Tags: author; writing

Tour of World Literature

Elizabeth Amidon, English professor at Western Michigan University, guides a world tour of authors and books that capture what’s going on in other parts of the globe, or stories told…

Recorded 04/05/2011

Categories: Information; Timely Topics

Tags: culture; history; reading together; writing

Art of Creative Nonfiction

Gail Griffin, author and professor at Kalamazoo College; Katherine Joslin, author and professor of English, Western Michigan University; and Kathy Jennings, journalist, writer, and editor, Second Wave Media, IMG Publications,…

Recorded 03/31/2011

Categories: Information; Instructional; Timely Topics

Tags: culture; writing

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RAWK Writing Workshop-Prompt #2: Marvel’s Black Panther

RAWK Writing Workshop-Prompt #1: Afrofuturism

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Orphan Trains

How to Write Your Own Obituary

"Mothers, Tell Your Daughters" Book Release Event

How to Write Your Own Obituary (or anyone else's)

"Crenshaw" Book Release Event

"Louder Than a Bomb" Poetry Workshop

Waking up Your Garden: A Writer's Perspective

A Conversation about the Craft and Business of Writing

The Great Lakes in Our Lives

10 Steps to Self-Publishing

Walter Dean Myers @ Powell Branch Library

Walter Dean Myers @ Central Library

Youth Literature Seminar 2011

Author Wade Rouse @ KPL

On the Street

Author Marc Adams @ KPL

Tour of World Literature

Art of Creative Nonfiction