A year-round book festival dedicated to great conversations with today's best writers.

NWS Playbook for Publishers, Authors, and Agents
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The National Writers Series is a new kind of book event designed to engage today’s best writers with large, enthusiastic book-buying audiences. Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers and In Harms Way, and whose writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, TIME, and Men’s Journal, founded this year-round book festival in 2009. He hosts the events in a grand 19th century opera house near the shore of Lake Michigan in the resort town of Traverse City, Michigan.

The challenges facing the book industry require fresh, innovative approaches in supporting and promoting books and authors on tour. These events are extremely well-produced and hand-sold to an eager public in love with great writing and story-telling. Our industry-driven mission is to create entertaining moments for audiences and our guest writers; to promote these authors on tour; and to sell large amounts of books to various New York Times-reporting bookstores. Our guests have told us that we have created the book tour event that authors dream about when they’re on the road. NWS produces 10-12 author events yearly, featuring lively conversations on-stage with Doug Stanton or a guest interviewer (often another writer, who could be chosen by the guest) about the author’s work and life. The evenings are designed to resemble great dinner parties, where the talk is engaging, provocative, and above all, fun.

National Writers Series is a non-profit, dedicated to enriching young writers’ learning opportunities, and enhancing our community’s apprecation of the written word.