The Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the University of Utah English Department / Creative Writing Program, continues on Thursday, April 22, 2010 with fiction writer Carole Maso and poet Elise Partridge at the Finch Lane Gallery /Art Barn (in Reservoir Park).

The reading begins at 7:00 p.m.

Carole Maso’s literary career can only be described as meteoric. Among the various awards she has received are the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction (1993), National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant (1988), National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant (1987), New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1987) and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (1985). Works she has published include The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), Pandora’s Box, a screenplay (1993), Ava (1993), The Art Lover (1990) and Ghost Dance (1986), among others.

Elise Partridge‘s Fielder’s Choice (2002) was shortlisted for the Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poems in Canada. Her second book, Chameleon Hours (2008) was featured in the “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post. Chameleon Hours was nominated for the British Columbia Book Prize in poetry and won the 2009 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, which recognizes “poetry that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.” Partridge’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in American, Canadian, British, and Irish journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Her work has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and on CBC radio, and has appeared on Poetry Daily as well as on the Vancouver and Toronto transit systems.

Directly following the 15th & 15th: Observing Authenticity Jane's Walk (which begins at 1 p.m. in front on the store), Stephen Goldsmith will present and discuss What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, a new book about Jane Jacob’s ideas edited by Goldsmith.

The Jane's Walk begins in front of the bookshop and will go throughout this iconic Salt Lake City neighborhood and meet many of those who have helped ensure that authenticity anchors this inviting district. You will hear about the successes, current challenges, historic battles, and especially about the commitment of these small business owners whose sensibilities and love of excellence has made the 15th and 15th district of Salt Lake City a favorite destination.

The Jane's Walk begins at 1 p.m.

For more information about this walk and other Salt Lake City walks, please visit the Jane's Walk website.

Christy Karras and Stephen Zusy will discuss and present a slideshow on their new book, Motorcycle Touring in the Southwest: The Region's Best Rides. The book features maps, details about services and attractions, and specific recommendations for routes.

Karras is a regular contributor to the Seattle Times and has written for The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City Weekly, and The New York Times. This is her fourth book. She divides her time between Seattle and Salt Lake City. Steven Zusy has worked in commercial photography and as a photojournalist at the Park Record and the Salt Lake Tribune. He lives in Park City.

As part of Water Week 2010, author Craig Childs will be speaking about his many adventures.

Craig Childs is a writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and mind-blowing journeys into the wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside and Orion. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet.

The event is FREE and open to the public. The King's English Bookshop will be selling Craig's books at the event.

To read more about Water Week 2010, visit their website at www.waterweek.org

Join us for the release of the 5th issue of Enormous Rooms, an undergraduate literary journal for the students of the University of Utah.

Editors and contributors will be on hand to read.

Enormous Rooms provides an opportunity for undergraduate students at the
University of Utah to publish creative or critical writing as well as
showcase art and photography.

Join us for the third installment of our quarterly “Local Author Showcase” event.

We’ll be joined by five local authors, each with a unique new book to share. This quarter’s authors include Paige Shelton (Farm Fresh Murder, already a New York Times best seller!), Amy O’Grady (Managing Money, Managing Life), Jonathan Langford (No Going Back), M.R. Bunderson (The Mark), and Nancy Miles (In Good Taste).

Readers and Writers….SAVE THE DATE!

The Children’s Literature Association of Utah (CLAU) and The ROCK CANYON CHILDRENS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS of UTAH PRESENT:

A BOOK FOR EVERY CHILD
CHARITY EVENT

Help us put books in the hands of underprivileged kids in Utah!

DAYTIME WRITING WORKSHOP: (Pre-register by August 15 $60/Walk-in $70)
Love
writing? Spend a fabulous day with award-winning Utah authors! Get
hands-on writing advice and move your manuscript closer to publication!
Author panel, critiques, and book signings. Lunch provided.
(For adults and children 12 and older.)

EVENING
EXTRAVAGANZA: (Pre-register by Aug. 15- $10/Walk-in $15, Family price
$25) Booklover but not a writer? Or, just looking for a fabulous night
out? Come to an evening extravaganza with entertainment by singer Nancy
Hanson, The Divine Comedy troupe, a celebrity author panel, and a raffle
with prizes that will astound you! (Adults and children over 12.)

COMBINED PACKAGE:($65 Pre-registration by August 15 price)
Love
BOTH reading and writing? Attend the workshop , followed by the evening
event! Have an experience you won’t forget, and all in the name of
literacy! Remember, your purchase benefits Utah kids!

ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARD PUTTING BOOKS IN THE HANDS OF UNDERPRIVILEGED UTAH KIDS.

TO REGISTER visit: www.writingforcharity.com.

Or mail a check to:

CLAU - Writing for Charity [Make checks out to CLAU]
P.O. Box 614
Layton, Utah 84041

Children, ages 3-8, will enjoy a special themed storytime and a hands-on project. A snack will also be provided. Registration is required, along with a $5 fee to cover materials. Call 801-484-9100 to register or for more information.

Authors,illustrators, and story tellers Martin and Delia Wach are back for a very special storytime! Martin tells amazing stories and Delia explains the art of illustration. Don't miss this fun and informative event!

Samuel Delany's science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova, Dhalgren, and the Return to Nevéryon series. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002.

Part of the 2011 Guest Writers Series (GWS)—a monthly series, scheduled on Thursday evenings, which brings in contemporary writers from across the county, presented in partnership with the University of Utah Department of English and Creative Writing Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council. The public readings at the Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane, are free and followed by a reception to meeting the writers. Discussions are led by U of U Department of English scholars before the readings. Call 801.581.7478 for details. Book signing sponsored by The King’s English Bookshop.

Chicago-born Nancy Eimers is the author of three books of poems. Another book, Oz, is forthcoming in 2011. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Nation "Discovery" award, and a Pushcart Prize. She has been a resident of the MacDowell Colony and has served as a guest editor of Passages North and Hunger Mountain. She teaches creative writing in the M.F.A. and Ph.D. programs at Western Michigan University and at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A Grammar to Waking explores what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being." Eimers’ meticulously crafted poems question how we live. "There are so many rules we don't even know," she writes, "but we wake to them anyway."  

Shawn Fawson spent her childhood in Italy, Switzerland and Japan, and now works as a resident chaplain at St. Mark’s hospital. She has published two chapbooks and one full length collection, Giving Way, (2010). Her honors include the Francis Locke Poetry Prize and a notable in Best American Essays 2008.  Poet Betsy Sholl writes that Giving Way “seems composed on that abrupt edge where the living and the dying meet, where absence and presence, intimacy and distance seems to share the same source…. These poems present ‘lessons in seeing gradually’—the only way to fully perceive a world that is richly layered, elusive, and not easily converted into words. But Fawson does just that, giving us a vocabulary for all that is luminal and luminous, a language of transformation.”

Dumke Student Theatre, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory.
Booksigning sponsored by The King’s English Bookshop.
For more information, please contact Natasha Sajé, professor of English, at 801.832.2376 or nsaje@westminstercollege.edu.

We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Jordan, author of The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2, for a book signing.

Jennifer Jordan has lived at the base of K2 twice while writing and producing the National Geographic documentary The Women of K2. She is a writer, producer, public speaker, and journalist, having created, produced, and hosted her own public radio talk show. Jennifer lives with her husband, filmmaker and adventurer Jeff Rhoads, in Salt Lake City. 

Idaho State University Reader’s Theatre comes to SLC for an open-air reading of The Jäger Artist, written by Larry Rigby.

Authors Live: Melanie Rae Thon

Salt Lake City Main Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
(801) 524-8200

When: Saturday, October 2, 7 p.m.

Author Melanie Rae Thon is a professor in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah. Her most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories, both to be published in 2011. She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, as well as the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon's work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of the 1997 Whiting Writer's Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), a 2005 Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation, and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009).

Join us for our quarterly “Local Author Showcase” event.

We’ll be joined by four local authors, each with unique new books to share. They include Bill Housley (Into the Dark: Escape of the Nomad), Amy Maddocks (Too Precious for Earth), Nancy Miles (In Good Taste: Create Your Own Family History Cookbook), and Robert Goble (A Winter Morning’s Sun and Across a Harvested Field).

Mark Feldstein will read from his new book, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture. Feldstein tells the story of the bitter struggle between the most reviled newsman and embattled politician of the post-war era.

The Jung Society of Utah presents:
October 8 (Friday) - free event - Facing Fate, Finding A Destiny
Renown Storyteller and Mythologist, Michael Meade, in Salt Lake City!

According to ancient myths, each soul makes two agreements upon entering the world. The first agreement binds the individual to a distinct destiny. The second agreement entangles each person in the limitations of fate and responsibilities. While all second agreements can be renegotiated, the first agreement is non-negotiable. If a person doesn’t face their fate, they may never find their natural gifts. If a person doesn’t risk their destiny, they’ll never know who they are intended to be. Join us for an exploration of identity, meaning, purpose and passion.

NEW LOCATION: We host this event at the Jewish Community Center (2 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City).

The story written on the walls of the soul is the great experiment of each life. In this rare opportunity workshop, we will examine the life lived so far and separate the self ’s vital story and creative calling from the corpse of the past and the darkness of the present. We will tend to places where the soul carries its initiations and where the deep self tries to awaken us to the sacred path of knowledge and love hidden within our lives.

This workshop will benefit those involved in dream work, creative work, community building, therapy, mentoring, teaching, healing, spiritual development, ecological and social activism. All mental health professionals are eligible to receive six CEUs.

To buy the workshop tickets please click here.

Discounts available for the Jung Society of Utah members