Cedar Breaks Writers Conference: Panel & Reading
Cedar City
UT
Southern Utah University’s Cedar Breaks Writers Conference: Poetry, Prose & Place ~ Reimagining the West
Join Simmons Buntin and other acclaimed writers at the Cedar Breaks Writers Conference in Cedar City, Utah! Simmons will participate in a panel with featured writers on Tuesday afternoon, October 7 (time TBA) and then a reading on Thursday evening, October 9 (time TBA).
No registration required–please join us!
Tuesday, October 7 – Thursday, October 9
Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values
Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT
Simmons Buntin, who has long served as editor-in-residence for Southern Utah University’s ecopoetry and environmental essay fall conference, this year is joining the inaugural Cedar Breaks Writers Conference: Poetry, Prose & Place ~ Reimagining the West, hosted by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values at Southern Utah University, as a featured author. He’ll participate in an author panel as well as an evening reading and signing from his new book, Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far. These events are open to the public. He’ll also participate in creative writing class workshops (not open to the public) as well as a writing/walking workshop on Wednesday, October 8, that also will be open to the public. More details will be posted here as available. The Cedar Breaks Writers Conference is co-sponsored by Utah Humanities.
“I can’t think of a better guide—to whiptails, desert super blooms, craft beer, constellations, photography, fatherhood, community, and, well, life—than Simmons Buntin. From Denver to Tucson, to the Bosque del Apache, Mt. St. Helens, and beyond, Buntin writes with equal facility about the beautiful, dynamic intricacies of the natural world and the many lovely, knee-buckling complexities of family. These wide-ranging, self-aware, astute essays will leave you enlightened and deeply glad—glad right down to your heart and bones, the feathery roots of what some of us might even call a soul.”
— Joe Wilkins, author of The Entire Sky and The Mountain and the Fathers
Photo of Cedar Breaks National Monument by Simmons Buntin.