News & Updates

 

Visit us at these upcoming conferences and author events:

 

Greg Prince, Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Weller Book Works, May 15, 2019, 6:30 pm

Authors from Reimagining A Place for the Wild
The King's English, May 16, 2019, 7:00 pm

Stephen Trimble, The Capitol Reef Reader
The King's English, August 7, 2019, 7:00 pm

Mormon History Association (MHA)
June 6-8, 2019, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Congratulations to our award-winning authors!

• Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History by Carol Cornwall Madsen won the Mormon History Association's Best Biography
  
  
• Margarita Marin-Dale won the Wayland D. Hand Prize from the American Folklore Association for her book  Decoding Andean Mythology
  

   

• Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research to Holly Cusack-McVeigh for  Stories Find You, Places Know
  
  
• Hikmet Sidney Loe’s book, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo , won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Art Book

• Ordinary Trauma : A Memoir by Jennifer Sinor was selected as a finalist for the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction

• The following books were finalists for the Utah State Historical Society Best Book Award: Interwoven: Junipers and the Web of Being by Kristen Rogers-Iversen, Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940 by Mark Wayne Nelson, A Modest Homestead: Life in Small Adobe Homes in Salt Lake City, 1850-1897 by Laurie J. Bryant, and The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson’s Earthwork through Time and Place by Hikmet Sydney Loe

Press Prizes:

Jerry Spangler and James Aton won the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize for their manuscript,  The Crimson Cowboys .

Lindsay Lusby won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize for her manuscript, Catechesis.

Florence R. Shepard and Susan L. Marsh won the Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Studies for their manuscript, Saving Wyoming's Hoback .

Matthew Garrett won the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies for his manuscript, Making Lamanites.