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SUMMARY:Creative & General Nonfiction Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com. \nCreative Nonfiction Finalists\nA Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings\nWill Betke-Brunswick\nDuring Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college\, their beloved mother\, Elizabeth\, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together\, which Will documents in evocative two-color illustrations. But as we follow Will and their mom through chemo and hospital visits\, their time together is buoyed by laughter\, jigsaw puzzles\, modern art\, and vegan BLTs. In a delightful twist\, Will portrays their family as penguins\, and their friends are cast as a menagerie of birds. In between therapy and bedside chats\, they navigate uniquely human challenges\, as Will prepares for math exams\, comes out as genderqueer\, and negotiates familial tension. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings is an act of loving others and loving oneself\, offering a story of coming-of-age\, illness\, death\, and life that announces the arrival of a talented storyteller in Will Betke-Brunswick. At its heart\, Will’s story is a celebration of a mother-child relationship filled with unconditional devotion\, humor\, care\, and openness. Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and a recent graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s work has appeared in the new print edition of Trans Bodies\, Trans Selves\, How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition and the websites INTO and Autostraddle. A former high school math teacher\, Will lives in Boulder\, Colorado. \nFinding Querencia\nHarrison Candelaria Fletcher\nWith its roots in the Spanish verb querer—“to want\, to love”—the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging\, that which we yearn for when we yearn for home. In this striking essay collection\, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher shows that querencia is also a state of being: the peace that arises when we reconcile who we are. A New Mexican of mixed Latinx and white ethnicity\, Candelaria Fletcher ventures into the fault lines of culture\, landscape\, and spirit to discover the source of his lifelong hauntings. Writing in the persona of coyote\, New Mexican slang for “mixed\,” he explores the hyphenated elements within himself\, including his whiteness. Blending memory\, imagination\, form\, and language\, each essay spirals outward to investigate\, accept\, and embrace hybridity. Ultimately\, “Finding Querencia” offers a new vocabulary of mixed-ness\, a way to reconcile the crosscurrents of self and soul. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship\, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize\, Colorado Book Award\, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award\, Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal\, Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Memoir pick\, Best American Essays Notable selection\, and Pushcart Prize Special Mention. He also has been a finalist for the International Latino Book Award\, National Magazine Award and Bakeless Literary Prize. A native New Mexican\, he is a former columnist\, feature writer and beat reporter at newspapers throughout the West. He teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Colorado State University. \nTell Me Everything\nErika Krouse\nErika Krouse has one of those faces. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this\,” people say\, spilling confessions. In fall 2002\, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her\, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she’s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault\, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway\, inspired by Grayson’s conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could\, too. Erika Krouse is the author of Come Up and See Me Sometime\, a New York Times Notable Book\, and Contenders. Erika’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, One Story\, and more. She teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and lives in Colorado. Her debut memoir\, Tell Me Everything\, has been optioned for TV adaptation by Playground Entertainment. \nWestern Journeys\nTeow Lim Goh\nTeow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences while building on the longer history of immigrants from Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, bringing new insights to places\, the historical record\, and memory. These vital essays consider how we access truth in the face of erasure. In exploring history\, nature\, politics\, and art\, Goh asks\, “What does it mean for an immigrant to be at home?” Looking beyond the captivating landscapes of the American West\, Goh uncovers stories of the Chinese people who came to America during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Indigenous peoples who have been written out of popular narratives\, among many others. She examines the links between the transcontinental railroad\, the cowboy myth\, and the anti-Chinese prejudice that persists today. These essays explore the early efforts to climb Colorado’s highest peaks\, the massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs\, Wyoming\, and the increasingly destructive fire seasons in the West. Goh’s essays create a complex\, varied\, and sometimes contradictory story of people and landscapes\, a tapestry of answers and questions. Teow Lim Goh is the author of two previous books\, Islanders and Faraway Places. Her essays\, poetry\, and criticism have appeared in The Georgia Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, PBS NewsHour\, and The New Yorker. \nGeneral Nonfiction Finalists\nEcosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies\nJohn Giordanengo\nHumanity could not overcome its most basic health crises until discovering the inner workings of the human body\, and the nature of diseases that threaten it. We lack the equivalent understanding of our economies\, jeopardizing not only humanity’s health\, but that of the very ecosystems we depend on for survival. Atop thirty years of work and research in ecology\, economics\, and business\, Giordanengo explores the elusive structure of our global market economy with sharp clarity\, and presents fresh clues to the resilience and productivity of our national economies. As informed by John’s depth of experience in ecological restoration\, this book outlines a path for restoring our economies to a sustainable state. It is through economic restoration that we may fortify our collective resistance to future global turmoil\, while mending the fabric of our communities. Growing protests against globalization motivated John to write Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies\, integrating thirty years of research in ecology\, business\, economics\, and conservation. Building atop his experience in ecological restoration\, John now turns to a deeper conservation need—economic restoration. This includes his lecture series at universities and public venues across the US\, and creating sustainable solutions for industry. \nTracing Time\nCraig Childs\nCraig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders\, tiny spirals in stone\, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light\, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity\, humility\, and love of the arid\, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest\, Childs sets these ancient communications in context\, inviting readers to look and listen deeply. Craig Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books\, including The Secret Knowledge of Water\, Atlas of a Lost World\, and his most recent Virga & Bone. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly and his work has appeared in the Atlantic\, New York Times\, and Los Angeles Times. He lives in southwest Colorado. \nVisual Thinking\nTemple Grandin\nWith her genius for demystifying science\, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed\, she reveals\, and a more varied one\, from the purest “object visualizers” like Grandin herself\, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving\, to the abstract\, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers\, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts\, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation\, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating\, parenting\, employing\, and collaborating with visual thinkers. In a highly competitive world\, this important book helps us see\, we need every mind on board. Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation\, Animals Make Us Human\, The Autistic Brain\, and Thinking in Pictures\, which became an HBO movie starring Claire Danes. Dr. Grandin has been a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals as well as an outspoken advocate for the autism community. She resides in Fort Collins\, Colorado.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/creative-general-nonfiction-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:East Library\, 5550 N Union Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80918\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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SUMMARY:Historical Fiction\, History/Biography\, and Pictorial Finalist Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates Colorado’s outstanding literary achievement by commending the accomplishments of its authors\, editors\, illustrators\, and photographers. In this free public reading\, finalists will read from their work and attendees can pose questions. Select finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts at poorrichardsdowntown.com.\n\nHistorical Fiction Finalists \nLittle Souls  \nSandra Dallas \nWorld War I is raging overseas\, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu\, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals\, churches and funeral homes are closed\, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents’ deaths. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar\, Little Souls is a tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most. Sandra Dallas\, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” in Vogue Magazine\, is the author of over a dozen novels\, including Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass\, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award\, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 25 years covering the Rocky Mountain region. She lives in Denver and Georgetown. \nThe School for German Brides  \nAimie K. Runyan \nGermany\, 1939. As the war begins\, Hanna Rombauer\, a young German woman\, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother’s death. Thrown into a life of luxury she never expected\, Hanna soon finds herself unwillingly matched with an SS officer. The independence that her mother lovingly fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer\, and she is sent to a “bride school.” There\, in a posh villa on the outskirts of town\, Hanna is taught how to be a “proper” German wife. The lessons of hatred\, prejudice\, and misogyny disturb her\, and she finds herself desperate to escape. Aimie K. Runyan has been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection\, as a three-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards\, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. Aimie is active as an educator and speaker in the writing community and beyond. She lives in Estes Park. \nWoman of Light  \nKali Fajardo-Anstine \nLuz “Little Light” Lopez\, a tea leaf reader and laundress\, is left to fend for herself after her older brother\, Diego\, a snake charmer and factory worker\, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930’s Denver on her own\, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins\, how her family flourished\, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end\, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, the PEN/Bingham Prize\, The Story Prize\, and winner of an American Book Award. She has written for The New York Times\, Harper’s Bazaar\, ELLE\, The American Scholar\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere\, and has received the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts. She lives in Arvada. \n  \nHistory/Biography Finalists \nLife is a Game: Adventures of a World War II Interrogator and U.S. Soccer Pioneer  \nG.K. Guennel & Flint Whitlock \nG.K. “Joe” Guennel was born in Germany and came to the U.S. as a teenager just as the Nazis were taking over the country. He joined the U.S. Army while in college\, and because German was his native language\, he was assigned to be an interrogator of German prisoners-of-war—both during the war and prior to the Nuremberg war-crimes trials. After returning to the U.S.\, he became involved in starting soccer programs wherever he lived while he worked on earning his Ph.D. in paleobotany and was later inducted into both the U.S. and Colorado Soccer Halls of Fame. Before his death\, Dr. Guennel gave his voluminous notes\, photos\, and artwork to his friend and fellow soccer enthusiast\, Flint Whitlock\, a few years before he died in hopes that Flint\, the award-winning author of 15 books (four of which have been finalists in the Colorado Book Awards) and a 2021 inductee into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame\, could complete his autobiography. Flint lives in Denver. \nThe Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina \nLori Peek & Kai Erikson \nThe final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. The authors expand the view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view\, the authors argue\, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Kai Erikson is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Wayward Puritans\, Everything in Its Path\, A New Species of Trouble\, and The Sociologist’s Eye. Lori Peek is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Behind the Backlash\, coauthor of Children of Katrina\, and co-editor of Displaced and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Lori lives in Boulder. \nThe Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse\, Sitting Bull\, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation  \nMark Lee Gardner \nCrazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic\, their significance in American history undeniable. Together\, these two Lakota chiefs\, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man\, delivered a crushing defeat to George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives. Based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources\, The Earth Is All That Lasts chronicles these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Mark Lee Gardner is the author of Rough Riders\, To Hell on a Fast Horse\, and Shot All to Hell\, which received multiple awards\, including a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Gardner has appeared on PBS’s American Experience as well as on the History Channel\, AMC\, the Travel Channel\, and NPR. He has written for National Geographic History\, American Heritage\, the Los Angeles Times\, True West\, and American Cowboy. He lives in Cascade. \n  \nPictorial Finalists \nIn Pursuit of Happenstance  \nBarbara Ford & Roberta Smith \nIn this 68-page book\, Smith’s imagery square dances with Ford’s poetry. The poems serve as both counterpart and counterpoint to Smith’s paintings\, collages\, altered books\, found objects\, and mixed media assemblages. The creation of this collaboration was founded in the serendipity of two bodies of work frolicking\, laughing\, frowning\, and wiping away tears together. Smith’s and Ford’s two worlds come together and create a third\, called Happenstance\, rife with ravens\, bicycle rides\, whales\, Adam and Eve\, turtles\, chickens\, eggs\, and jesters. Roberta Smith has worked as a graphic artist\, children’s book illustrator\, jewelry designer and muralist before becoming an award-winning mixed media artist. She has exhibited in galleries and invitational shows\, and her work is represented in public and private collections throughout the country. Barbara Ford’s work has been published in a variety of publications\, and she has presented her poetry at festivals and conferences throughout the state. Her radio program\, Poets and Minstrels\, has aired for 17 years in Salida\, where they both live. \nTo Aspen and Back: An American Journey   \nPeggy Clifford\, David Hiser\, and Daniel Joseph \nJournalist Peggy Clifford’s account of the town she called home for 26 years was published in 1980 and considered an insightful history and deep examination of the social and cultural forces that both shaped this Shangri-La in the Colorado Rockies and threatened to destroy its ideals. Republished in 2022\, To Aspen and Back comes more vibrantly to life with curated photographs and the original introduction written by Hunter S. Thompson. Peggy Clifford was a copywriter and reporter in Pittsburgh and New York City before moving to Aspen in 1953. Beginning as the sole editorial employee for the daily Aspen Flyer\, she became managing editor of The Aspen Times and managed Hunter Thompson’s campaign for sheriff. She died in 2017. David Hiser has won multiple awards\, including the 2015 Pictorial Colorado Book Award for High Road to Aspen\, and Daniel Joseph Watkins won the 2012 Pictorial Colorado Book Award for Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist. David lives in Carbondale\, and Daniel lives in Aspen. \nVibrant Interiors  \nAndrea Monath Schumacher \nThe author’s debut interior design book explores her creativity and ability to transform interior spaces into something unique for each client. Regardless of location or style\, the skillfully designed homes are layered with a well-balanced mix of complexity and simplicity; sophisticated yet playful; layered but minimal. This dynamic interplay is compelling\, unexpected\, and creates conversation. Andrea Monath Schumacher started her company in 1999 and has built Andrea Schumacher Interiors into the premiere residential interior design firm in Denver\, Colorado that has recently expanded to Santa Barbara\, California. The award-winning firm consistently appears on the Luxe Gold List and in House Beautiful\, Luxe\, The Wall Street Journal Off Duty\, Colorado Homes\, Mountain Living\, and Western Art & Architecture\, while ranking #1 on the Best of Houzz for 5 consecutive years.
URL:https://coloradohumanities.org/event/historical-fiction-history-biography-and-pictorial-finalist-reading/
LOCATION:East Library\, 5550 N Union Blvd\, Colorado Springs\, CO\, 80918\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for the Book,Colorado Book Awards
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