News
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2011 Hal Grutzmacher Writers’ Expose
“Painter, Painter,” a short story by Cynthia Kraack, received second place in the annual fiction contest which draws submissions from across the country.
Bemidji Library Book Festival 2011
Cynthia Kraack joined thirteen writers and poets for a week of readings and presentation in Bemidji, MN for the annual Bemidji Library Book Festival. About forty-five people attended a presentation about speculative fiction and reading from Minnesota Coldheld at the Headwaters School of Music and Arts.
Ashwood News Release http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4447304.html
Minnesota Book Award Consideration
Ashwood nominated for the 2011 Minnesota Book Award in Genre Fiction.
Ashwood Released by North Star Press
Cynthia Kraack’s Ashwood, the first in speculative fiction family trilogy, will be released by North Star Press of St. Cloud on September 1, 2010. Advance orders can be placed on Amazon.com.
Ashwood explores the challenges of rebuilding the United States following a deep global economic depression through the experiences of individuals assigned to live in the federal estate system—a means for growing food for a hungry nation, providing safe housing for elite intellectual citizens and offering kids a bed, three meals a day and an education. Anne Hartford, an out-of-work teacher caught in government unemployment sweeps, arrives at Ashwood with a suitcase and two boxes containing all that remains of her former life. In weeks she is caught in a thrilling fight to save Ashwood and her own future.
First-time Author Receives Prestigious Northeastern Minnesota Book Award
Minnesota Cold by Cynthia Kraack Wins in Fiction Category
NEMBA Awards Announced
May 16, 2010–The University of Minnesota Duluth Library in collaboration with the Lake Superior Writers and Friends of the Duluth Public Library awarded the 22nd Annual NEMBA in Fiction to Minnesota Cold, written by Cynthia Kraack and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud.