This is a big weekend for Minnesota writers and literature. Tonight the winners of the tenth annual Minnesota Book Awards will be announced. Then on Sunday, the Marshall festival 5 gets underway. It's a week of readings, roundtables and workshops packed with familiar names...Carol Bly, Robert Bly, Bill Holm and Will Weaver just to name a few. Rosalie Maggio is a writer who's a veteran of both events. She'll be giving a workshop on "Wordsmithing" in Marshall, and she's twice won Minnesota Book Awards. Maggio says the book awards have really grown in stature: Rosalie Maggio is a two-time Minnesota Book Award winner. Her most recent book is The New Beacon Book of Quotations for Women.
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