Three Four Corners area writers will know this Sunday if they were awarded top honors from the Colorado Book Awards, after the winners are announced at the 2015 awards ceremony in Aspen.<\/p>\n
The Colorado Book Awards have been presented annually since 1991 to authors, editors, illustrators and photographers from around the state who represent the best in their categories during a given year.<\/p>\n
In the Best Anthology category, Fort Lewis College professor Andrew Gulliford was nominated for his essay collection \u201cOutdoors in the Southwest\u201d; in the General Nonfiction category, Durango restaurateur Katrina Blair was nominated for her book \u201cThe Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival\u201d; and in the Mystery category, Cortez author Chuck Greaves was nominated for his novel \u201cThe Last Heir\u201d.<\/p>\n
Two of the authors made a stop Thursday to the Cortez Public Library as part of a three-stop book tour leading up to the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to have such amazing talent in our small corner of the Southwest and to have this talent recognized by being nominated for the prestigious Colorado Book Award is remarkable,\u201d said Kathy Berg, library assistant at the Cortez Public Library. \u201cWin or lose; we are officially on the map in the literary world. These authors are the ultimate storytellers as they weave and wind their own stories about their writings, thoroughly engaging and entertaining audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s book talk with the authors also gave attendees a taste of more programming the library will be offering this fall, Berg said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is the beginning of some of the adult programming that will be an integral part of the Cortez Library\u2019s literary series that will be starting in October and continuing through early spring,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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