Thursday, January 3, 2008

Andy Smetanka & New Lakes this Friday

COMING THIS FIRST FRIDAY...


FORWARD MONTANA presents

an exhibition of hand-cut silhouette prints by ANDY SMETANKA
with an opening reception reading by the New Lakes
curated by ADELAIDE EVERY

readings by GRACE EGBERT, JEREMY PATAKY,
BRANDON SHIMODA, HEATHER TONE and MIKE WANZENRIED

First Friday, January 4, 5-8 pm (reading at 7 pm)
Forward Montana, 736 South Higgins Avenue, Missoula


Andy Smetanka's prints will be available for viewing January 2-31st.


Spread the word...

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For more information, visit:
www.forwardmontana.org
thenewlakes.blogspot.com

Monday, December 3, 2007

Reading This Wednesday


READING THIS WEDNESDAY:


MATTHEW ECK, writer and UM MFA (’02) graduate
is reading this Wednesday, December 5, 7 p.m.
at Shakespeare & Company, 103 South 3rd Street West

Matthew will be reading from A FARTHER SHORE, a novel of warfare in Somalia in the early 1990’s. A FARTHER SHORE was the winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and was selected for Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series.

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MATTHEW ECK enlisted in the Army in 1992 and served in Somalia and Haiti. He has a BA in English Literature from Wichita State University and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. He currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Central Missouri. He lives in Kansas City.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Second Wind Season Finale

Please join us for the semester finale of the Second Wind Reading
Series, featuring fiction and poetry by:

CLAUDE ALICK

LAURIE WHITE

and

JIM BLANKS

Claude Alick was born on the Island of Grenada in the Southern
Caribbean. In 2006 Claude published a collection of short stories
entitled WET STORAGE AND OTHER STORIES. Wet Storage was a finalist in
the International Self Published Book Awards, sponsored by Writers
Digest Magazine. He lives in Missoula.

Laurie White is a second year poet in the University of Montana's
M.F.A program, while
Jim Blanks is a second year fiction writer.

The Palace
147 W. Broadway
6:30 pm