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Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037
to Be Released June 1, 2012
Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037, the third speculative fiction novel by prize-winning author Cynthia Kraack will be released by by North Start Press on June 1, 2012. Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 builds on the tradition of Ashwood by challenging today’s status quo within the twists and turns of a spellbinding thriller. Read the press release.
Don’t Let Us Get You Down: Women Writers Respond to Bad Times
In a world full of uncertainties, we look to books for many different reasons: to understand the past, to make plans, and to imagine the future. While today’s financial and economic mess may be challenging to navigate, this event will highlight three impressive women writing about depression from three unique vantage points, including Cynthia Kraack, Faith Sullivan, and Gail MarksJarvis, on Thursday, June 7th at 7:00 PM at Common Good Books in St. Paul. Read the press release.
Women Behaving Strongly: Women Writing Outside Traditional Literary Roles
Women have been breaking from tradition for decades, yet the number of women writers who defy age-old literary traditions is marginal. Three authors, Cynthia Kraack, Pam Leonard, and Gary Lindberg, whose strong female characters break through literary tradition will address these issues in “WOMEN BEHAVING STRONGLY: Women Writing Outside Traditional Literary Roles,” on June 21st at 7:00 PM at The Open Book in Minneapolis. Read the press release.
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.