Hancock — North Wind Books in Hancock will feature Michigan author Helen Raica-Klotz for a reading and discussion of her new book. “Superior Stories,” is the winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. at North Wind Books, 437 Quincy Street in Hancock.

Superior Stories is a collection of six interconnected short stories set in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan’s northernmost region.

Award-winning novelist Bryan Gruley (“Bitterfrost,” “Starvation Lake,”) praised the book. “In her linked story collection, ‘Superior Stories,’ Helen Raica-Klotz takes readers deep into the physical and emotional lives of ordinary people struggling–and sometimes failing–to do right by themselves, their families,

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