- THE UTAH ARTS COUNCIL invites Utah writers to enter its 32nd annual Original Writing Competition.

The council is seeking unpublished manuscripts of poems and book-length collections of poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction novels, juvenile books and personal essays by Feb. 16. Judges will be accomplished writers from across the country.First-place cash awards will range from $5,000 for the Publication Prize, given for the most outstanding book-length work from the previous year's competition, to $300 in the short story and personal essay catagories.

First prizes in the novel, non-fiction book and book-length poetry collection categories are $1,000 awards, with $500 for juvenile book and poetry winners. Second-place prizes range from $750 to $200.

The competition, one of the longest-running in the country, recognizes and rewards excellence in Utah writers.

In the past 32 years, winners have included Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor, young-adult novelists Ivy Ruckman and Margerat Rostkowski, poet David Lee, and fiction writers Francois Camoin and David Kranes.

For more about the rules and categories, write to the Utah Arts Council Literary Competition, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City 84102. - United Press International

- THE PARK CITY FOUNDATION for the Arts and Humanities will sponsor a reading at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, in the Park City Community Church, 402 Park Ave.

Pamela Houston, a fiction writer who has published in many journals and magazines, will be reading with Debra Monroe, winner of the 1989 Flannery O'Connor Award.

In March, poet David Lee will read. Poet Scott Cairns will read in April.

For information call 649-2464.

- THE OQUIRRH WRITERS GROUP will offer a one-day writers conference Saturday, Jan. 13.

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The sessions will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Harman Home Community Center, 4090 S. 3600 West.

The conference will be a nuts and bolts look at how editors select and edit manuscripts, so that writers will be able to sculpt their work for certain publications and audiences.

Pam Houston, managing editor of Western Humanities Review; James P. Bell, editor of BYU Today; Colin B. Douglas, a senior editor in LDS Curriculum; and fiction editor Larry Levis are just a few of the people who will be on hand.

For more information call 969-3337.

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