On Thursday, January 26th, Helicon West is pleased to feature Shaun’s Front Room Writing Group! The event will begin at 7pm at the CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion (35W 100S) in Logan.
Shaun’s Front Room is a local, generative writing group, where writers come together to write. The featured readers for this event will be Star Coulbrooke, Jay Paine, Jessie Hahn, Jack Bylund, Millie Tullis, and Shaun Anderson.
The reading will be followed by an open mic, where all are invited to read up to seven minutes of their own original work! The open mic is uncensored and open to all.
On December 8th, 2022, Helicon West invites you to join us for an all open mic night celebrating our seventeenth year! Our party will take place at The Annex (64 Federal Avenue) in Logan at 7pm.
There will be food! There will be coffee! There will be buckets of fun (metaphorically)! As always, Helicon West is free, uncensored, and open to all.
Join Helicon West this Thursday, November 10th at 7pm at THE ANNEX in Logan (64 Federal Ave) to hear from Utah State’s Creative Writing Club, the Bull Pen!
Helicon West is free, uncensored, and open to all. An open mic will follow the featured readers. Coffee and refreshments provided.
On Thursday, October 27th, Helicon West is pleased to feature USU Alumna Alyssa Quinn! The event will begin at 7pm at the CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion (35W 100S) in Logan.
Alyssa Quinn graduated from USU in 2016, earning a BA in English and being named the Outstanding Creative Writing Student of the Year, the CHaSS Valedictorian, the CHaSS Scholar of the Year, and the recipient of the Joyce Kinkead Outstanding Thesis Award. She went on to earn an MFA in creative writing at Western Washington University, where she also worked as an editor at the Bellingham Review. She is currently a fifth-year doctoral candidate at the University of Utah, where she has taught composition and creative writing, worked as an editor with the journal Quarterly West and the small press FC2, and been a recipient of the Burton Scholarship, the Steffensen Cannon Scholarship, and the Snow Fellowship. Her prose chapbook, Dante’s Cartography, was published in 2019 by The Cupboard Pamphlet, and her debut novel, Habilis, came out earlier this year with Dzanc Books. Her short work has been published in Ninth Letter, Passages North, Cream City Review, The Rupture, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Brevity, and elsewhere.
The reading will be followed by an open mic, where all are invited to read up to seven minutes of their own original work! The open mic is uncensored and open to all.
On Thursday, October 13th, Helicon West is pleased to feature visiting professor and writer Eric Freeze! The event will begin at 7pm at the CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion (35W 100S) in Logan.
Eric Freeze grew up in southern Alberta, Canada in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies. He studied creative writing and African-American literature in the US, getting a PhD at Ohio University and eventually teaching at Wabash College in Indiana where he is a tenured professor. He writes both fiction and creative nonfiction, and teaches in other genres such as screenwriting and writing for video games.
French Dive: Living More with Less in the South of France is Freeze’s second book of creative nonfiction. His first is a collection of essays titled Hemingway on a Bike (2014), another book that also celebrates his experiences living and working in France. He has published two short story collections: Dominant Traits (2012), and Invisible Men (2016). His stories, essays, and translations appear in numerous periodicals including The Southern Review, Boston Review, and Harvard Review.
He is married to academic and birth educator Rixa Freeze and is the father of four bilingual soccer-crazed children. He lives half the year in Crawfordsville, Indiana and the other half in Nice, France.
The reading will be followed by an open mic, where all are invited to read up to seven minutes of their own original work! The open mic is uncensored and open to all.
Be sure to join Helicon West on Monday, September 26th at 7pm at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Logan to hear a special reading from former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee! This event is made possible in conjunction with the Ken Brewer Festival of Writing and the USU English Department.
David Lee was Utah’s first poet laureate; in 2001 he was a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. He is the author of two dozen volumes of poetry, including The Porcine Canticles, A Legacy of Shadows, So Quietly the Earth, Last Call, and Mine Tailings. A former seminary student, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he holds a PhD with a concentration in John Milton. For over three decades he taught at Southern Utah University, where he received every teaching award given by the university, including being named Professor of the Year on three occasions. His awards include multiple fellowships from the National Endowments for the Art and Humanities, the Western States Book Award, the Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, the Critics’ Choice Award, the Utah Book Award, the Elkhorn Poetry Prize, the Evolutionary Poem of the Year award, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Retired, he is in intense training to achieve his goal of becoming a World Class Piddler.
Join the poet David Lee for a reading of his work accompanied by a jazz band. Open mic to follow. This event is free, uncensored, and open to all.
Join the Writers’ Cache on September 8th at 7PM at the Thatcher-Young Mansion!
The Writers’ Cache is a dedicated critique group based in the Logan, Utah area. They provide a nurturing environment for friendship, education, and encouragement to writers of all genres and skill levels.
Readers will include Chadd Vanzanten, EB Wheeler, Tim Keller, Felicia Rose, and Alice Batzal.
Helicon west is free, uncensored, and open to all. Open mic to follow featured readers. Caffe Ibis coffee provided.
On August 25th, 7PM MST at the CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion in Logan (35W 100S), Helicon West is thrilled to feature Ashley Wells!
Ashley Wells earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from California State University, Fresno. Her book The Cowgirl and the Racehorse: A Recovery was published with Lantern Publishing and Media in October 2020. Essays have appeared with Connotation Press, Jezebel.com, and Women in Higher Education, and her 16-post guest blog series examining representations of women and horses in pop culture appeared with Bitch magazine. Ashley lives in Logan, Utah, where she is on the faculty in the English Department at Utah State University.
Helicon West is free, uncensored, and open to all. The featured reader will be followed by an open mic wherein everyone is invited to sign up to read up to seven minutes of their own original work. Complimentary Caffe Ibis coffee will be provided by the Logan Library.
Helicon West concludes its Open Mic Summer events on July 28th at 7PM. Unlike our other events, this Helicon will take place at the Riverpark Senior Housing Clubhouse (784 Riverwalk Parkway) in Logan.
As always, we will serve Caffe Ibis coffee and be absolutely free, uncensored, and open to all. Everyone is invited to read up to seven minutes of their own creative work of any genre at the open mic! YOU are the summertime’s featured readers!
Missed the May Open Mic? Bring your work and join us in June! The June Helicon will take place at the CacheARTS Thatcher-Young Mansion and will be a Zoom hybrid night. All summer Helicon events will start at 7PM MST, serve Caffe Ibis coffee, and be absolutely free, uncensored, and open to all. Everyone is invited to read up to seven minutes of your own creative work of any genre at the open mic! YOU are the summertime’s featured readers! Bring your voice and your pen–we’ll see you then!
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