Spring 2016 eNews for Writers

Spring 2016

The Writers Conference is Back!

Registration is now open for the fifth annual Writers Conference! The conference will take place from 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM on Saturday, April 16 at the Cascade Twp. Branch (2870 Jacksmith Ave SE). The event will feature Michigan authors and publishing insiders sharing their experiences with new and aspiring authors on getting started, ways to be a paid author, how to promote yourself and more. This season there will not be a lunch break, however snacks will be provided in the morning and the afternoon. All genres and skill levels are welcome. Pre-registration is required. For teens and adults.

KDL Caffeinated: Coffee & Tea Programs

KDL Caffeinated is back for a second round! Please join us all month long as we visit and bring in some of the area's leading experts on coffee and tea. This season we will be touring Ferris Coffee and Nut as well as MadCap Coffee in downtown Grand Rapids. More program dates and times can be found on our event calendar. Registration is required for all KDL Caffeinated programs. If reading about coffee and tea is more your style, we have a book list with all of the information you'd need to be a coffee or tea expert!

Find Your Voice with KDL Reads

This spring we are excited to bring you KDL Reads, a community reading event centered on the book Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. This powerful memoir chronicles Woodson's coming of age amid the backdrop of the turbulent 1960's. Woodson finds her voice and tells her story through beautifully rendered poems steeped in memory and with rich family ties. We hope that reading this book and engaging in our programming can help encourage you to find your voice. Programming for adults this spring will include Memoir Writing, Calligraphy, Bookbinding and Journal Making, Every Family Has a Story, Show and Tell and more.

Free Digital Access to Magazines

If you have a KDL Library card, then you also have access to current e-editions of nearly 75 popular magazine titles all for free through Zinio! This list includes Poets & Writers , Writer's Digest and The Writer. The Zinio platform recreates magazines page-for-page, including full-color pictures and interactive media elements such as audio and video. Magazines can be read not only on a Mac or PC but on a variety of mobile devices using Zinio's reader apps. For more information on how to download Zinio, check out our downloading instructions page.