For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Stephen Tuttle and Mike Dorrell to read atCity Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Stephen Tuttle and MikeDorrell will read from their work on Wednesday December 2nd at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Stephen Tuttle lives in Provo andteaches at Brigham Young University. His fiction has appeared in TheGettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review,and The Normal School. Mike Dorrell was born andbrought up in Swansea, Wales. Best known as a playwright, he is the author ofover a dozen plays for stage, radio and television including work for PainesPlough, Avon Touring, and BBC Radio 4. In Utah, both Salt Lake Acting Companyand Utah Contemporary Theatre have performed his work, and with the latter hedevised the Talking Wales series of monologues which was performed in unusualtheatre spaces including this library. Mike has first and seconddegrees from the Universities of London and Bristol, and has an M.A. in Britishand American Literature from the U. of U. He has taught both there and atWestminster College. He was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company from 1999 to2008 and while there he helped develop new plays by Julie Jensen, Jeff Metcalfeand others. Mike learned his trade as anovelist by working as a freelance publisher’s reader, editor and rewrite man.With his former writing partner he wrote novels under a variety of pseudonymsincluding Rafe Quilty and Jericho Hood. When the BBC contacted him some years ago to ask him if he really wasthat Mike Dorrell who had novelized the Dick Barton Radio Series, he decided toreturn to mystery writing. Tonight, he will introduce his new literary mysteryseries, and a new Welsh detective, DCI Gwendraeth James. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long