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Milkweed Annual Member Event: 2025 Publishing Preview

We welcome our members to register for the 2025 Annual Member Event, a publishing preview of Milkweed’s 2025 list with Publisher and CEO, Daniel Slager. Keep an eye on your inboxes for the registration link, or feel free to reach out to membership@milkweed.org to register.

If you are not yet a Milkweed member, learn more about our program and sign-up here before 2/12 for access to the event!

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Beth Dooley at Mill City Farmers Market!

Join Beth Dooley at the Mill City Farmers Market!

Beth will be at the Milkweed Books table at the market on January 18th. She will offer recipe advice, a quick market soup recipe to take home, and brainstorm ways to use ingredients provided from our local farmers. She will also sign copies of In Winter’s Kitchen.

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Milkweed Books & Writers Go to the Movies Present

UPDATE: Sarah Jones is unexpectedly unable to travel this week and cannot join for this iteration of Writers Go to the Movies. Milkweed Editions will be hosting Sarah Jones in April instead, stay tuned for details. Chris Stedman will be hosting this event instead.

 

 

Milkweed Books & Writers Go to the Movies present Chris Stedman, author of IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World, and poet/memoirist Juliet Patterson. Tickets are not necessary but encouraged for planning purposes.

The film Pride, was selected, which speaks to Chris’s work. We will all view it together. Writers Go to the…

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Milkweed Presents Creature Conservation hosted by Claire Wahmanholm

Milkweed Editions in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Press present Creature Conservation hosted by Claire Wahmanholm, featuring Charles Baxter, Kimberly Blaeser, and Sean Hill.

The event will feature readings from the new collection Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation out with University of Minnesota Press out on January 21. Claire Wahmanholm will then host a panel that centers on craft and art activism for creature conservation.

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum…

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In person: Eiren Caffall with Claire Wahmanholm

Join Milkweed Books and poet Claire Wahmanholm as we welcome Eiren Caffall to Minneapolis to launch her two new books, The Mourner’s Bestiary and All the Water in the World.

Eiren will read from both titles and talk about her creative process with Claire, followed by a Q+A and book signing.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Eiren Caffall is an author and musician based in Chicago. Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Orion, The Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV: Fire (The…

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Virtual: Deni Ellis Béchard in conversation with Daniel Slager

We are pleased to present a conversation between author Deni Ellis Béchard and his editor and Milkweed CEO and Publisher, Daniel Slager in celebration of Béchard’s latest novel, We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine.

Join us virtually via Zoom at 6:00 PM CST. Registration is free but required.

Pre-order your copy of We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine here: https://milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine

Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Into the Sun, winner…

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In Person: A Poetry Reading with Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm at The Great Northern Sauna Village

Join The Great Northern Festival in partnership with Milkweed Editions for a special Open Steam sauna reading with poets Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm. The reading will take place in our event sauna, where you’re welcome to come and go at your leisure. Step inside and enjoy the reading in the soothing heat, and then cool off outside or check out one of our other saunas. Please note that sauna participants must be 13+ years of age at the time of their sauna experience. Attendees under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.