Original Writing Competition winners to read for City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 5th 7:00-- 9:00 p.m.
Winners in the Utah Original Writing Competition, Markay
Brown, Adrian Stump, and David Pace will read from their work on Wednesday May
5th at the Salt Lake Public Library
Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Born
in Boise, Markay Brown grew up all over the state of Idaho, then completed her
high school years in Seattle, Washington. She and her husband, Nad Richard Brown, also a poet,
spend summers in Springville, Utah and winter in Utah’s Dixie, St George.
They are parents of five sons and grandparents to thirteen children.
Markay
received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University
where she later worked as an admissions and academic scholarship
representative. She has been writing poetry since 2002, considers herself
a fledgling, but has won numerous awards in both state and national contests.
She and her husband have served as the Utah State Poetry SocietyContest
Chairs for the years 2009 and 2010. Of her writing poetry, she
paraphrases her friend, Sue Ranglack, “I write because I don’t drink!”
Adrian Stumpcurrently scribbles in South Ogden,
Utah, where he lives in a subterranean apartment with his long-suffering wife,
Britta. His short story collection All the Variables & Other Love
Stories won the 2009 Utah Arts Council's book-length manuscript contest and his
work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Aisthesis, BlazeVOX,
and The Emprise Review.
DAVID G. PACEhas worked as a theater critic,
editor, arts journalist, essayist and fiction writer. For over three years he
taught at Westminster College and the University of Phoenix where he taught
writing, public speaking, film and popular culture. He holds an M.A. from the
University of Utah in Communication and currently works in administration for a
local performing arts company. Originally from Provo, he has lived in
Boston and New York City but now makes his home in Salt Lake City.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and
audience donations. The featured
reading will be followed by an open reading.
Joel Long
