ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND SCHEDULE

awards ceremony
book signing
parking and directions

April 21
3:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium

Celebrating 75 years of the Hopwood Awards
Hopwood Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony
Hopwood Lecture: “Losers,” by Charles Baxter

A former U-M faculty member, Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction, and the editor of other books. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. His most recent novel is Saul and Patsy (Pantheon 2003); he recently published the essay collection Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (Graywolf Press, 1998).

Visit Charles Baxter’s website

A reception for contestants and Mr. Baxter will follow the reading and presentation ceremony.

April 22
10:00–12:00 am
Shaman Drum Bookshop

Release of The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing and Signing of Works by Hopwood Awardees

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Marking the history of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award, The University of Michigan Press will release its compendium of works by Hopwood Award-winning writers of note, The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett, with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco.

Photos of Hopwood writers and copies of their works will be displayed in the windows of the Shaman Drum Bookshop for this event, and books by past Hopwood Award-winning authors included in the anthology will available for signing by their authors.

Parking and Directions

There is limited visitor parking available in the campus area at the new Palmer Structure, located off Washtenaw on Palmer Drive. The City parking structure at the corner of William and Maynard streets also has visitor parking.

For more information about parking, as well as about accommodations and getting around campus, please see the Campus Information Center’s website.

The Ann Arbor Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website is also a good source of information on visiting the city.

And for Ann Arbor events and restaurant information, please visit ArborWeb, the online home of the Ann Arbor Observer.