Saltfront, which debuted in September, is a venture that finds its sense of literary place “in-between” systems, ecological and otherwise. Its submission guidelines, termed “bearings and positions,” attempts nothing less than a sea-change of the lexicon, the approach and the meanings of environmental writing and activism. Michael McLane, one of the founding editors, explains that...
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Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye
We are pleased to announced that Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye, from the University of Pittsburgh Press, has been selected for the 2013 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by Red Hen Press, and House Under the Moon by Michael Sowder, published by...
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Lance Larsen
SUNDAY BLOG READ is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Today, 15 Bytes features Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen who provides three poems below. Sunday Blog Read continues to collect a distinguished group of established and emerging Utah writers for your review and enjoyment. Past writers have included former Utah...
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Author Brian Doyle: Shivering Together in Story
Hard to say why author Brian Doyle is such a hit with Utah readers. He’s of Irish descent, confessional, audacious in his prose and unabashedly Catholic. But here he is again making an appearance in Utah County at both the Orem Public Library (Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7pm, the finale celebration of Orem Reads) and...
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: Calvin Haul
SUNDAY BLOG READ is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Today, 15 Bytes features Calvin Haul whose short-short story Like Shakespeare is here complete. Haul joins a distinguished group of established and emerging Utah writers in this capacity, including former Utah Poet Laureate Kate Coles, poet Michael McLane, short story...
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Barbara K. Richardson’s Tributary
We are pleased to announce that Barbara K. Richardson’s novel Tributary has been awarded the 2013 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction. The author will receive a small cash award to recognize her achievement. Our congratulations also go out to our other two finalists for the award, Miah Arnold for her novel Sweet Land of...
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
In poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s debut collection But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), the diction is daring, the voice muscular. In “Why I Want To Be A Tow Truck Driver,” she writes, See the snowclouds thrusting over the range like a cough, a hard-packed fist? This is how I come. Free...
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Miah Arnold’s Sweet Land of Bigamy
The title, sadly, does not adequately convey the richness of language and wit to be found in this charming first novel by Dr. Miah Arnold, who grew up in a house attached to the Three-Legged Dog Saloon in Myton, Utah, and now is assistant professor of English and Rhetoric, Creative Writing at Georgia College &...
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Dave Hall and Joel Long at 15th Street Gallery
Joel Long reading at the 15th Street Gallery in 2012. This weekend, Dave Hall and Joel Long are continuing their ongoing collaborative venture with an exhibit and reading at 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City as part of the Utah Humanities Council’s Book Festival. Hall, a landscape painter who gravitates towards misty scenes of...
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SUNDAY BLOG READ: April Wilder
What do former Utah Poet Laureate Kate Coles, poet Michael McLane, short story writer Darrell Spencer, fiction writer Larry Menlove, memoirist Christopher Bigelow, poet Shanan Ballam and speculative fiction writer Steve Proskauer all have in common? SUNDAY BLOG READ, a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Today, fiction writer April Wilder becomes...
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15 Bytes Book Awards Finalists
In May, we announced the formation of the 15 Bytes Book Awards, an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry and Art. After spending the summer reading all the nominees, our jurors have come up with three finalists in each category. This year’s nominees for the 15 Bytes Book Awards were...
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Long Solo Backpack: Memoirist and Naturalist Julia Corbett
Julia Corbett knows something about homesteading, having done so herself in the wilds of Wyoming. Her memoir Seven Summers (University of Utah Press) chronicles not only how to pick a chain saw to clear your ten acres of forested land, but how a Paiute looks at an aging doe; not only how it is that...
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