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SUMMARY:Mystery & Historical Fiction Finalists Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers! Finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards will read briefly from their work and answer questions from the audience and finalist books will be available for purchase at BookBar. \nRegister for this free event and view the full finalists reading schedule at coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ \nMystery Finalists\nRed Rabbit on the Run\nJodi Bowersox \nAfter being kidnapped and sold to a brothel\, schizophrenic Tiffany Morrow emerges from a bad drug-induced trip in the custody of a couple who claim to be taking her home to Denver. At first she thought she imagined the demon horse at the airport\, but there was no mistaking the mountain view out the window that morning. She doesn’t know how much time had passed since she’d been carried out of that vile cabin in the Amazon\, but she can’t go home until she proves someone is embezzling funds from her mother’s corporation. \nJodi Bowersox has been an actress\, seamstress\, designer\, business owner\, homeschool teacher\, choir director\, and artist. Her romance novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi\, with small town\, big city\, and interplanetary settings. She lives in Colorado Springs. \nCanyonlands Carnage\nScott Graham \nWhen suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park\, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family see that evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes a risky journey on the Colorado River through Utah’s red rock wilderness even deadlier. \nScott Graham is the author of the acclaimed National Park Mystery series and of five nonfiction books\, including Extreme Kids\, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. He lives in Durango. \nBreak Bone Fever\nWanda Venters and Mary Rae \nWhen Dr. Gennifer Drake’s body washes up on a foggy beach on Galveston Island\, Texas\, Dr. Louise Finnerty\, an emergency medicine physician\, and Dr. Marnie Liccione\, a recently widowed pediatrician from Colorado\, are shocked by their friend’s death. Untangling the web of lies propagated by an EPA cabal\, they fight for justice and their lives. \nWanda Venters moved to Colorado 35 years ago as a major stationed at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. After three decades as a pediatrician\, she retired and began a second career\, first as a children’s author and then as a mystery novelist. Mary Rae trained in Emergency Medicine and practiced for twenty years before transitioning to Primary Care. \nHistorical Fiction Finalists\nLuther\, Wyoming\nTomas Alamilla and Mario Acevedo \nTwo Civil War veterans\, Deputy Adam Sanchez and Sheriff Nelson Cook\, find themselves on both sides of the law when they corral a murderous bandit and help themselves to his stolen loot. Their plans go south when the bandit’s gang shows up wanting vengeance and their money in this tale of larceny\, betrayal\, and the return of a lost love to help set things right. \nTomas Alamilla is a Mexican entrepreneur with a lifelong love of stories featuring Western adventure\, tough cowboys\, and strong women. Tomas lives in Garden City. Mario Acevedo is an award-winning editor and a bestselling author of fantasy\, action\, and historical novels\, including short stories. He lives in Denver. \nChloe’s Mistigri\nThomas L. Hall \nHall navigates a complex world filled with beauty and tragedy in a mesmerizing tale of joy\, sorrow\, and hope set against a backdrop of astonishing historical detail. From jazz-age Paris to depression-era Louisiana\, from war-torn China to wartime New York and Havana\, this story of love and courage intertwines with the likes of Josephine Baker\, Madame Chiang Kai-shek\, Ernest Hemingway\, and the famous mobster Meyer Lansky. \nThomas L. Hall is an attorney and writer from Fort Collins. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Illinois State University\, a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas McCombs School of Business\, and a Juris Doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law. \nThe Cape Doctor\nE.J. Levy \nLevy’s debut novel is inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry\, born Margaret Anne Bulkley circa 1795 in Cork\, Ireland\, who was an eminent nineteenth-century physician that revolutionized medicine and our ideas of gender. The novel recounts Margaret’s transformation from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for her mother. \nE.J. Levy’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Orion\, Salon\, Rumpus\, Salmagundi\, Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, and won a Pushcart Prize. The Cape Doctor was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Barnes & Noble Best Book of Summer. Foreign editions are forthcoming in French\, Spanish\, and Italian. She’s an Associate Professor in Colorado State University’s Creative Writing MFA Program and lives in Fort Collins.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/colorado-book-awards-historical-fiction-mystery/
LOCATION:BookBar Denver\, 4280 Tennyson St\, Denver\, CO\, 80212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:History & Biography Finalists Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers! Finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards will read briefly from their work and answer questions from the audience and finalist books will be available for purchase at BookBar. \nRegister for this free event and view the full finalists reading schedule at coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ \nHistory Finalists  \nBlack Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue\nAdrian Miller \nThis book chronicles how Black barbecuers\, pitmasters\, and restaurateurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways\, and how they are coming into their own today. In this smoke-filled story of Black perseverance\, culinary innovation\, and entrepreneurship\, the author celebrates and restores the faces and stories of the men and women who have influenced this American cuisine. This beautifully illustrated chronicle also features 22 barbecue recipes. Adrian Miller is a writer\, attorney\, and certified barbecue judge who served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton\, a senior policy analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr.\, and as a Southern Foodways Alliance board member. He lives in Denver. \nGoing to Trinidad: A Doctor\, a Colorado Town\, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads\nMartin J. Smith \nBetween 1969 and 2010\, remote Trinidad\, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately 6\,000 medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria\, making the phrase “Going to Trinidad” a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery in the worldwide transgender community. It also turned Trinidad into what The New York Times called “the sex-change capital of the world.” The book takes readers deep into the often-mystifying world of gender\, genitalia\, and sexuality. Martin J. Smith\, a veteran journalist and former senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine\, is the author of five crime novels and four nonfiction books. He has won more than 50 newspaper and magazine writing awards\, and his novels have been nominated for three of the publishing industry’s most prestigious honors\, including the Edgar Award\, the Anthony Award\, and the Barry Award. He lives in Granby. \nQueen City: A Brief History and Illustrated Architecture New and Old of Denver\, Colorado\nKarl Christian Krumpholz \nThis collection documents the very things that make Denver a city like no other and captures Denver’s historic downtown with artistry and detail through booms and busts\, historic moments\, and colorful characters. Karl Krumpholz’s artwork has appeared in many different formats\, publications\, and has been animated in a documentary. Karl is currently working on several projects including the weekly “The Denver Bootleg” comic for Westword\, his daily autobiographical comic “The Lighthouse in The City\,” and the continuing series of short stories and slight of life comics set in The City: 30 Miles of Crazy! Karl lives in Denver. \n  \nBiography Finalists \nAlpha\nDavid Philipps \nThis epic account of the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon includes the startling accusations against their chief\, Eddie Gallagher\, and the courtroom battle that exposed the dark underbelly of America’s special forces. A page-turning tale of battle\, honor\, and betrayal\, Alpha is a remarkable exposé of the fault lines fracturing a country that has been at war for more than a generation. David Philipps is a Colorado native and a national correspondent for The New York Times\, where he focuses on the military. His work has won numerous national awards including The Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of two previous books\, Wild Horse Country: the History\, Myth and Future of the Mustang\, and Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home. He lives with his family in Colorado Springs. \nBorderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo\nJennifer Koshatka Seman \nThis dual biography is a historical exploration of the worlds and healing practices of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo\, two curanderos (faith healers) who attracted thousands\, rallied their communities\, and challenged institutional powers. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, they worked beyond the reach of the church\, state\, or state-certified health practitioners whose profession was still in its infancy. Jennifer Koshatka Seman lectures in history at Metropolitan State University in Denver. Her work has appeared in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses and the Journal of the West. \n\n\n\nThe Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver\nJane Botkin \nSetting Jane Street’s story within the wider context of early twentieth-century class struggles and the women’s suffrage movement\, this book paints a fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of one woman’s courageous fight for equality. Street’s story relays an astonishing drama populated by burlesque dancers\, con men\, radicals\, thugs\, pimps\, muckraking journalists\, and undercover agents. Jane Botkin became intrigued with Jane Street after learning her grandmother\, born in 1898 in Denver\, worked as a domestic in a Boulder mansion in 1916. She melds American families’ personal narratives with compelling stories of women\, labor radicals\, miners\, lawmen\, and outlaws in rich settings that transition into the New West. Botkin has won five awards\, including two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize for Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family. Jane lives in New Mexico.
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LOCATION:BookBar Denver\, 4280 Tennyson St\, Denver\, CO\, 80212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anthology & General Fiction Finalists Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers! Finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards will read briefly from their work and answer questions from the audience and finalist books will be available for purchase at BookBar. \nRegister for this free event and view the full finalists reading schedule at coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ \n  \nAnthology Finalists  \nAll the Lives We Ever Lived\, Volume 2 \nManuel Aragon and Roxanne Banks Malia \nA community has a voice\, a shared language only spoken between one another; shorthand and phrases that communicate a history. The community has spoken\, shared their stories\, and here they are in a collection of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. Manuel Aragon is a Latinx writer\, director\, and filmmaker whose work has appeared in ANMLY\, and his short story\, “A Violent Noise\,” was nominated for the 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. He is a Periplus Collective Fellow and lives in Denver. Roxanne Banks Malia oversees the Lighthouse Writers Workshop youth and community programs and also serves as the Colorado Poetry Out Loud State Coordinator. She has taught creative writing and literature in a variety of settings and her poetry and essays have appeared in Coldfront Magazine\, Copper Nickel\, CutBank\, DIAGRAM\, and elsewhere. \n  \nShadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas \nCarina Bissett\, Hillary Dodge\, Joshua Viola\, and Aaron Lovett \nBelieving the ancient peoples knew some lands were given over to shadow and spirit\, the Umbra Arca Society\, a centuries-old private league of explorers\, dedicated their lives to uncovering the oldest mysteries of the Americas. The Shadow Atlas collects their adventures. Carina Bissett is a writer\, poet\, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies\, and she lives in Colorado Springs. Hillary Dodge is the author of several speculative short fictions as well as three nonfiction books\, including Gather Round the Table: Food Literacy Programs\, Resources\, and Ideas for Libraries. She has been published in online magazines\, podcasts\, and print anthologies\, including Pseudopod\, Space Squid\, Hellbound Books\, and Hex Publishers\, and she lives in Colorado Springs. Joshua Viola is a Denver Post bestselling author\, five-time Colorado Book Award finalist\, and the owner of Hex Publishers. He lives in Westminster. Aaron Lovett is a mixed-heritage Asian American artist who has been published by AfterShock Comics\, Tor.com\, The Denver Post\, and Spectrum Fantastic Art 22 & 24. His Nightmares Unhinged cover art was licensed by AMC for their hit TV show “Fear the Walking Dead.” Aaron lives in Westminster. \n  \nTell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado’s Prisons  \nElijah Null\, Julie Rada\, and Suzi Q. Smith \nIn a time of unprecedented isolation\, the stories we tell ourselves and each other create a sense of community\, of belonging. The writings in this anthology come from a correspondence course\, Tell It Slant: Reading & Writing Creative Nonfiction\, that the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative offered in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Corrections at nine state facilities. Elijah Null is completing his PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Denver. He has taught ESL\, English\, and humanities at the high school and college levels and taught courses with the Prison Arts Initiative at DU. Julie Rada is a theatre maker\, educator\, and scholar who has toured nationally and internationally and has published on prison arts practice in multiple journals. Julie is currently affiliate faculty at MSU Denver and lives in Denver. Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist\, organizer\, and educator who has created\, curated\, coached\, and taught in Denver for over 20 years. She is the author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World\, A Gospel of Bones\, and Thirteen Descansos. She is Affiliate Faculty with Regis University’s Mile High MFA\, Lighthouse Writers Workshop\, and DU’s Prison Arts Initiative\, as well as the [margins.] Conference Director for The Word. Suzi lives in Denver. \n  \nGeneral Fiction Finalists   \nThe Night of Many Endings \nMelissa Payne \nOrphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline into addiction\, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead\, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge\, a collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. No matter how stranded in life they feel\, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didn’t think was possible. Melissa Payne is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Secrets of Lost Stones and Memories in the Drift. Melissa has long been telling stories in one form or another\, from high school newspaper articles to a graduate thesis to blogging about marriage and motherhood. Melissa lives in Conifer. \n  \nThe Boundaries of Their Dwelling \nBlake Sanz \nMoving between the American South and Mexico\, these stories explore how immigrant and native characters are shaped by absent family and geography. This collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters seeking love and redemption beyond the barriers of their homes and cultures. Originally from Louisiana\, Blake Sanz has published fiction in Ecotone\, Puerto del Sol\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, and elsewhere. His writing has garnered recognition from Zoetrope: All-Story\, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria\, and other conferences and residencies. Blake lives in Denver and teaches writing at the University of Denver. \n  \nMixed Company \nJenny Shank \nIn this book the author reveals moments of grace and connection between people of her hometown\, Denver\, through stories that contrast the city during its oil-bust era of economic troubles and court-ordered crosstown busing for racial desegregation with the burgeoning and gentrifying city of recent years. Jenny Shank’s novel The Ringer won the High Plains Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the Los Angeles Times and McSweeney’s. Her work has been honorably mentioned by Best American Essays\, the Pushcart Prize\, and her mother. She teaches in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. Jenny lives in Denver.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/colorado-book-awards-anthology-general-fiction-finalist-readings/
LOCATION:BookBar Denver\, 4280 Tennyson St\, Denver\, CO\, 80212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:General Nonfiction & Creative Nonfiction Finalists Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers! Finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards will read briefly from their work and answer questions from the audience.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/colorado-book-awards-general-nonfiction-creative-nonfiction/
LOCATION:BookBar Denver\, 4280 Tennyson St\, Denver\, CO\, 80212\, United States
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