Writers Robert Glick and Mike Dorrell will Read for City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday January 19th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Robert Glick and Mike Dorrell will read from their work at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday January 19th at 7:00.
Robert Glick is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of Utah and fiction editor of the Amsterdam-based literary journal
Versal. Recent and forthcoming publications include Denver Quarterly, Black
Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bateau, and Fourteen Hills. In 2010 he
won The Normal School Normal Prize for fiction and the Copper Nickel Fiction
Contest. He likes breaking things.
Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the
upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE
IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in
April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and
acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a
comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays
for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES,
PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC
for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE
OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the
Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American
Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for
The
Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He
has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has
been published in small magazines in Wales.
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
