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