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The Great Lakes Literary Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in late 2023. Our mission is to foster our literary community through writing workshops and new publishing opportunities. First initiatives include hosting a new monthly writers workshop, developing community programming to support underserved writers, and creating new publishing opportunities for writers in our region, which in turn creates a unique new contemporary literary overview of the diversity of our geographic region.

Key Accomplishments in 2024:

• Engaged Pontiac youth in onsite poetry writing workshop at Webster Community Center’s back to school event in August 2024
• Gave away wrapped “Mystery Adventure” books to over eighty children at Webster Community Center’s back to school event in August 2024
• Is facilitating a new free community library at the Webster Community Center in conjunction with the Pontiac Library
• Started a Monthly Writers Workshop in Pontiac for anyone to bring any writing to workshop, or join a writing activity

Board of Directors

Jennifer Baum, founder, chair and executive director
Andrea Bouchard, esq., secretary/treasurer
Joe Zakens (Development Manager, Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency), board member at large

Community Partners

Pontiac Library
Micah 6 Community
Webster Community Center
Pontiac Community Foundation
Main Street Pontiac
Scribe Books
Detroit Writing Room
Midwest Independent Publishers Association
Midwest Book Awards
Button Poetry