For Wyomingites who attended the Wyoming Book Festival last month and the Casper College Literary Conference last week and are still yearning for more Rocky Mountain region literary activity:
You are invited to the Utah Humanities Book Festival’s Define-a-thon and Utah Literary Awards Ceremony at The City Library's Nancy Tessman Auditorium, 210 East 400 South, on Wednesday, Oct. 24. Schedule includes the Utah Literary Awards from 5:30-6:45 p.m. It honors the winners of the Utah Center for the Book Awards, the Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition, and the May Swenson Poetry Award. The Define-a-thon will be held from 7-8 p.m. The Define-a-thon is "a fun, competitive word game of vocabulary strength hosted by Steve Kleinedler from Houghton-Mifflin Publishers."
Stay for the reception from 8-9 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres will be served.
FMI: Szalay@utahhumanities.org or 801.359.9670.
