For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Franklin
Fisher and Michael Gills to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 12th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Franklin Fisher and Michael Gills will read from their work on Wednesday
December 12th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Franklin Fisher is a writer and musician
living in Salt Lake City. He has published fiction in a bunch of literary
magazines including Prism International, the Missouri Review, Event, New
Letters, Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly
West, Confrontation, and others. He has also published a novel, Bones.
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.
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.
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Jesse Parent
Jean Howard
October
3
Mike Dorrell
10
Miles Fuller
Linda Aldrich
17
Jacqueline Osherow
Peter Covino
24
Cathy Wagner
Paisley Rekdal
November
7
Shaun Griffin
Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate
14
Michael Sowder
Jennifer Sinor
20
Michael Hansen
Tim Erickson
December
5
Sian Griffiths
Melanie Rae Thon
12
Michael Gills
Franklin Fisher
19
Holiday Open
January
9
Hector Ahumada
16
Katharine English
23
Rachel Marston
Craig Dworkin
February
6
Michael Kroesche
20
Sadie Hoagland
April
3
Matt Mauch
Greg Brownderville
17
Hilda Raz
Aaron Raz Link
May
15
High School Night
June
5
Final Open Reading