For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Mike Dorrell and Michael Gills to read at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday October 3rd 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Writers Mike Dorrell and Michael Gills will read from their work on October 3rd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October, the title story of which just won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A novel, Go Love, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market. Gills has published more than forty short stories, received 25 Pushcart nominations, appeared in multiple Best of the South publications and held the Randall Jarrell Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Gills holds additional degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah where he earned the Ph.D. His fiction is forthcoming in New Madrid, Boulevard and The Texas Review. Other stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, The Oxford American, Salt Hill, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, McSweeney’s, Verb, New York Stories, New Stories From The South and elsewhere. A Utah Established Artist grant recipient, Gills is currently Associate Professor/Lecturer of writing and core faculty for the Honors College at the University of Utah.

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.

Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.

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.

Jesse Parent

Jean Howard

October

Michael Gills

Mike Dorrell

Miles Fuller

Linda Aldrich

Jacqueline Osherow

Peter Covino

Cathy Wagner

Paisley Rekdal

November

Shaun Griffin

Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate

Michael Hansen

Tim Erickson

December

Sian Griffiths

Melanie Rae Thon

Holiday Open

January

Hector Ahumada

Katharine English

Joel Long