Kevin “Holiday Inn” has been nominated for a Minnesota Book award and readers are invited to vote for their favorite book in the Reader’s Choice Awards.

Here’s the link to voting online at TwinCities.com.

Voting ends March 31!  Spread the word!

Winners will be announced at the Awards Gala April 17, 2010.

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As a 2009 Alpert Award Nominee, Kevin was awarded a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire.

Kevin’s fellowship runs from March 22 – April 4, 2010.

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Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403

March 20, 2010
8 p.m.

For Ticket & More Information

“A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. ” —New York Times

Thursday, March 18 with Louie Anderson
Friday, March 19 with Kerri Miller
Saturday, March 20 with Kevin Kling

Celebrating the influential work and life of actor/writer Spalding Gray (1941–2004) and his irreverent storytelling style, Stories Left to Tell combines excerpts from both renowned and never-before-seen works that span the artist’s career and life. The piece is performed by a five-person ensemble made up of some of downtown New York’s most accomplished writer/performers—including David Cale, Ain Gordon, and Carmelita Tropicana—as well as a different local celebrity guest performer each evening. Stories Left to Tell also honors the 30-year history that the Walker enjoyed with Gray, which included commissions, video coproductions, and presentations of such major works as Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, and Sex and Death at Age 14.

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Minnesota Book Awards Announce Finalists


Sandford, Kling and DiCamillo in running for Minnesota Book Awards.

MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS
When: 6:30 p.m., April 17, Crowne Plaza Hotel, St. Paul.
Tickets: $40, thefriends.org or 651-222-3242.

By Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune

Some familiar names, including thriller writer John Sandford, humorist Kevin Kling, children’s author Kate DiCamillo and poet Dobby Gibson, are among the finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards, announced Saturday night. The finalists — four each in eight categories – were chosen by 24 judges from around the state.

They are:

Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: “The Bullhead Queen” by Sue Leaf; “Going Blind” by Mara Faulkner, OSB; “Holiday Inn” by Kevin Kling, and “The Wolf at Twilight” by Kent Nerbern.

Children’s Literature: “The Longest Night” by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ted Lewin; “Red Sings from Treetops” by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski; “Song of Middle C” by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Scott Menchin, and “Stampede!: Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School” by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Steven Salerno.

General Nonfiction: “Drink This” by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl; “I Go to America” by Joy K. Lintelman; “Journeywell” by Trish Herbert, and “Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings” by Patrick Noon.

Genre Fiction, sponsored by Wellington Management Inc.: “Frag Box” by Richard A. Thompson; “Jelly’s Gold” by David Housewright; “Rough Country” by John Sandford, and “The Silent Governess” by Julie Klassen.

Minnesota, sponsored by Xcel Energy: “Honor Bright” by Dave Kenney; “Jewel of Como” by Leigh Roethke and Bonnie Blodgett; “Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century” by Iric Nathanson, and “Opening Goliath” by Cary J. Griffith.

Novel & Short Story: “The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama’s Boy and Scholar” by Scott Muskin; “The Book of Night Women” by Marlon James; “A Travel Guide for Restless Hearts” by N. M. Kelby, and “The Turtle Catcher” by Nicole Helget.

Poetry: “Faith Run” by Ray Gonzalez; “I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman” by Jude Nutter; “Skirmish” by Dobby Gibson, and “Unrest” by Joanna Rawson.

Young People’s Literature, sponsored by 3M: “Crows & Cards” by Joseph Helgerson; “Lucy Long Ago” by Catherine Thimmesh; “The Magician’s Elephant” by Kate DiCamillo, and “The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind” by Kirstin Cronn-Mills.

Winners will be announced April 17.

Minnesotans are also invited to vote for the Readers’ Choice Award throughout March. Two awards for contributions to the literary and artistic community in Minnesota will also be given April 17.

Wilber H. Schilling is the recipient of the third Book Artist Award, presented with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. He owns Indulgence Press, which specializes in hand-bound, letterpress-printed, fine-press books. A reception featuring his work will be held at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Open Book Building.

The Kay Sexton Award, sponsored by Common Good Books, will be announced later in February.

The Minnesota Book Awards is led by the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, in consortium with the St. Paul Public Library and the St. Paul mayor’s office.

Laurie Hertzel is the Star Tribune’s books editor. She is at 612-673-7302.

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History Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $10.00

30 E. 10th St.
St. Paul, MN 55101
651.292.4323
Directions

Written by Kevin Kling | Directed by Suzy Messerole
Kevin Kling presents a comic history of the Twin Cities with a menagerie of hysterical characters that made Pig’s Eye and St. Anthony Falls the towns they are today.  Co-starring Simone Perrin.

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