Whitefish Review is hosting author David Allan Cates at Crush Lounge in Whitefish on Oct. 21 from 7 to 10 p.m.
Cates will read from his fifth novel, Tom Connor’s Gift, from Bangtail Press.
To kick off the evening, Whitefish Review fiction editor Matt Holloway will read from a recently published short story. Readings will be held from 8-9 p.m., with live music before and after by David Noftsinger.
Cates is the author of five novels, Hunger In America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out Of Wonderland and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, winner of a Gold Medal for Best Fiction in the 2013 Independent Book Publishers Book Awards.
Cates is also the winner of the 2010 Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award in prose and his short story. “Rubber Boy,” (Glimmer Train 70) is a distinguished story in the 2010 Best American Short Stories. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and his travel articles in Outside Magazine and The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler.
Holloway lives with his wife, daughter and son in Columbia Falls. His work has appeared in Montana Quarterly, Talking River Journal, Montana Magazine, Big Sky Journal, Montana Headwall, and more.
The event is free to attend, but a $5 donation is encouraged to help support the non-profit literary and art journal, now in its eighth year of publication.
For more information, visit www.whitefishreview.org or call 406-261-6190.