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09.26.24
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Waterston Desert Writing Prize Award Ceremony
The Waterston Desert Writing Prize (the Prize) was established in 2014, inspired by author and poet Ellen Waterston’s love of the High Desert, a region that has been her muse for more than 40 years. The Prize provides financial and other support to writers whose work reflects a similar connection to the desert, recognizing the vital role deserts play worldwide in the ecosystem and the human narrative.
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In celebration of the Prize’s tenth anniversary, the 2024 guest judge is actor and producer Sam Waterston, who funded the original endowment that launched the Prize. The ceremony’s keynote speaker is Tucker Malarkey, a nationally bestselling author. Malarkey’s most recent book, Stronghold: One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon, chronicles one conservationist’s journey to save the world’s remaining wild salmon.
September 26, 2024
Public Reception – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Program – 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Book Signing – 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2024 Winner Leath Tonino
The 2024 Waterston Desert Writing Prize winner is Leath Tonino.
Tonino is a full-time freelance writer who sold his earliest magazine stories while still an undergraduate at Colorado College where he studied philosophy and ecology. He has made some 50 backcountry trips on the Colorado Plateau, in the Mojave Desert, and across the Great Basin. His creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in Outside, Men’s Journal, Orion, The Sun, High Country News, Sierra, New England Review, The Progressive, Adventure Journal, and many other publications. Tonino also is the author of two essay collections published by Trinity University Press, most recently The West Will Swallow You.
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