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The Great Michigan Read Grants

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

September 7, 2008
Sixth Annual Kerrytown BookFest, Ann Arbor

Kerrytown BookFest: A Hemingway Homecoming -- (2008)

Grant Awarded: April 2008

Type of Grant: The Great Michigan Read

Sponsor: Kerrytown BookFest

Contact: Tom Hollander, President, 734-741-7531, bookfest@keerytownbookfest.org

Award: $7,500

Website: www.kerrytownbookfest.org

The Kerrytown BookFest is an annual event promoting the educational, artistic, and cultural roles of Michigan’s books and printing arts with an audience of 3,000 and growing. This year the BookFest will support The Great Michigan Read by having an extensive celebration of Ernest Hemingway’s time in Michigan. It proposes a three-high-school book jacket design contest based on The Nick Adams Stories. The top finalists will be highlighted locally prior to the BookFest and they will take place in a panel discussion during the festival where the winner will be announced. A panel discussion of three Hemingway experts covering The Nick Adams Stories will take place during the Fest, and visitors will be able to view the DVD “Ernest Hemingway: Life in Michigan.” The panel discussion will be moderated by a Hemingway scholar and videotaped/recorded for distribution via the web. Lastly, the organization will commission the design and hand letterpress printing of a limited edition broadsheet featuring Hemingway’s 1923 Michigan poem, Along With Youth, and a hand carved woodcut illustration of which only 125 will be printed. All will be numbered and signed by the artist and printer as a collectible piece of literary art. The broadsides will be sold for $60 each at the Fest. The artist and printer will also take part in a panel showcasing how hand typesetting, wood block printing, and paper selection are integrated.