For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Stephen Tuttle and Mike Dorrell to read at
City 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 Mike
Dorrell will read from their work on Wednesday December 2nd at the Salt Lake
City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Stephen Tuttle lives in Provo and
teaches at Brigham Young University. His fiction has appeared in The
Gettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review,
and The Normal School.
Mike Dorrell was born and
brought up in Swansea, Wales. Best known as a playwright, he is the author of
over a dozen plays for stage, radio and television including work for Paines
Plough, Avon Touring, and BBC Radio 4. In Utah, both Salt Lake Acting Company
and Utah Contemporary Theatre have performed his work, and with the latter he
devised the Talking Wales series of monologues which was performed in unusual
theatre spaces including this library.
Mike has first and second
degrees from the Universities of London and Bristol, and has an M.A. in British
and American Literature from the U. of U. He has taught both there and at
Westminster College. He was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company from 1999 to
2008 and while there he helped develop new plays by Julie Jensen, Jeff Metcalfe
and others.
Mike learned his trade as a
novelist by working as a freelance publisher’s reader, editor and rewrite man.
With his former writing partner he wrote novels under a variety of pseudonyms
including Rafe Quilty and Jericho Hood.
When the BBC contacted him some years ago to ask him if he really was
that Mike Dorrell who had novelized the Dick Barton Radio Series, he decided to
return to mystery writing. Tonight, he will introduce his new literary mystery
series, and a new Welsh detective, DCI Gwendraeth James.
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.
Joel Long