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About National Writers Series

The National Writers Series in Traverse City, Michigan, is a year-round book festival and a destination for conversations with today’s finest authors. We want to move our audiences toward an understanding of issues and communities that exist outside of our rural boundaries. And we want them to connect with each other inside the confines of the historic and beautiful City Opera House. Hundreds of people attend each of our author events, and tens of thousands more listen to the conversations on a subsequent broadcast aired on Interlochen Public Radio and on community television. Since founding our Writers Series in 2009, we’ve spread our wings to support young readers and writers in all kinds of ways. We have awarded over $60,000 in scholarships—now up to four scholarships each year—to college-bound seniors and juniors. Winning a scholarship gives the recipient a better chance of gaining entry into one of the country’s prestigious universities. In 2012, we developed a high school creative writing program in partnership with the public school district to provide a home for passionate writers. Our Front Street Writers program draws students from a five-county area—gifted writers who, in many cases, have no creative writing class in their rural home district. The students are treated to visits and master classes by a bestselling author who later appears on the NWS stage. Students also publish their best work in the NWS Literary Journal and recite their work on the Opera House stage.

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