Articles on Utah literary arts, Utah authors, Utah literature and poetry published in 15 Bytes.
Just a few chapters into the book I realized I was spending more time annotating and thinking about what I had read rather than actually reading words. I believe it’s a good thing. Thinking. Especially if you’re thinking about words written by Terry Tempest Williams. “I hear my […]
THE NOMAD’s Issue 4, “Breakthroughs,” is more about the through than the break. There are few explosive moments, not many trumpet blasts. Instead, the issue gathers fiction, memoir, lyric essay, prose poem, and poetry—fifty-four pieces by twenty-seven writers—around breakthrough as passage, as a moving through. The variety of […]
Don Quixote had his Sancho Panza. Jo had her Laurie. George and Lennie had each other. Heck, Wilbur had his Charlotte. Throughout the canon, there is a long line of literary duos who inform their stories on a rigging of loyalty that can be stretched to its limits, […]
In celebration of National Poetry Month, 15 Bytes is pleased to present a conversation and reading with Utah poet Shawn Dallas Stradley, interviewed by 15 Bytes editor Shawn Rossiter. In their conversation, Stradley reflects on a life spent writing—beginning in adolescence and continuing through decades of artistic and […]
Lance Newman is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. His best-known work is an edited collection, Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011), and he has published an extensive list of scholarly books and articles, many of them about […]
For poet and book artist Jess Challis, the boundary between writing and visual art has never been a firm line. Her work moves fluidly across mediums—poetry, image, book objects, multimedia—guided less by genre categories than by instinct, material, and the body’s experience of making. “I’ve never felt the […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that the 2025 15 Bytes Award for Fiction has been awarded to David G. Pace for his short story collection American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor, published by BCC Press. Selected from a strong field […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Sheila Nadimi has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Art Book for Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture. As our jurors noted: “Eagle Village is a profound photographic […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Lance Larsen’s Making a Kingdom of It, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Larsen is a poet and essayist based in Utah, where he teaches literature and creative […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Christopher Cokinos has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Creative Nonfiction for Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow. In this expansive, luminously crafted […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Art Book. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes excellence in publications that illuminate, document, or advance the visual arts of the region. This year’s finalists reflect the […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes outstanding literary achievement by Utah poets or works with significant ties to the state published in the previous year. This […]
David Kranes, the prolific Utah author, playwright, teacher, and longtime director of the Sundance Playwrights Lab, has died at 87. He was a fiercely imaginative writer whose work ranged across fiction, theater, film, opera, and even casino design—an eclectic span that reflected a mind always in motion. Kranes […]
For most artists, “Don’t quit your day job” is less the personal criticism a speaker may intend, and more a generic necessity. On its own, an artist’s craft is unlikely to provide a living, and the readymade judgment that “those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” makes […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Fiction. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes outstanding literary achievement by Utah writers or works with significant connections to the state published in the previous year. This […]
Rachel White’s poems are strongest when she takes on the role of activist, so it’s appropriate that her chapbook, The Velvet Earth After Rain, begins with a formal sonnet dedicated to Edward Abbey, patron saint of anti-social nature lovers and environmental activists. She has said of her writing, […]
Time and Chance, Katharine Coles’ plucky tenth collection of poems, offers riches to any reader. Elegant elegies to her late parents and a delightfully wicked one to an ex—“Sestina in Prose: Three Dreams” and “Degas Dancers”—and a superb breezy commentary on butterflies, “A Note on the Apparent Lowering […]
“There is a sign in my grandfathers’ workshop that says this: 180 degrees is half a circle, but also a line.” Readers of Lindsey Drager’s new novel, The Avian Hourglass, spend more than a few pages in the front yard of that workshop, and glimpse its contents, workbenches […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes outstanding literary achievement by Utah writers or works with significant connections to the state published in the previous year. […]
