Category: Public Events
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Honored to Serve: My Journey to the League of Utah Writers’ 2025 Volunteer of the Year Award
From first short story to Volunteer of the Year, discover how the League of Utah Writers shaped my author journey and inspired me to give back.
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Romantic Letters Conference 2024
The author participated in a writer’s conference and unexpectedly stepped in as a keynote speaker due to a last-minute emergency. Despite feeling like an imposter, the author’s joint keynote with a friend was well-received. The experience highlighted the significance of being in the right place at the right time.
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Winning the League of Utah Writer’s Diamond Quill Award
The annual awards banquet of the League of Utah Writers was held on a warm night in August. I’d attended this event every year for nearly a decade, applauding the winners of the various awards and enjoying the company of my favorite fellow writers. While I’d entered more categories this year than I had in…
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FanX Salt Lake 2021
After a year of tumult and avoiding crowds, or to be honest, avoiding people in general, being back at FanX was a welcome step back to normalcy. That said, it was really weird to interact with so many friends and strangers in person after so long of not feeling safe to do so. I was…
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Get Your Tickets Now! League of Utah Writer’s Spring Conference
It’s Spring time and virtual writer’s conferences are popping out of the ground like daisies. Spring, being a time of renewal, is a wonderful time to learn something new, or reinforce something you’ve learned in the past. On May 23, the League of Utah Writers is holding a day long virtual conference complete with live…
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Shout out to North Ogden Junior High Creative Writers
As an author, getting to talk and teach in Utah schools is surprisingly difficult. Which means I was all the more thrilled to go talk to not one or two of the English classes at North Ogden Junior High, but all off them. Myself, along with Charlie N. Holmberg, Steven Heumann, and Scott E. Tarbet,…
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NaNoWriMo 2019
It’s that magical time of year again! No, not the holidays. Oh … wait, those are magical too. I’m talking about NaNoWriMo, the one month novel writing challenge that has grabbed the worldwide writing community by the fingers. Over the years I’ve participated and succeeded in meeting the 50,000 goal words enough times that I…
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FanX 2019
This weekend from Sept 5-7 is FanX, Utah’s biggest fan experience. People from all over the world come to share their love of comics, superheroes, fantasy novels, TV series, and movies. Cosplayers wander the halls, New York Times bestselling authors hang out playing DnD, celebrities come for signings, photo ops, and to be interviewed on…
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FanX 2018
It’s FanX weekend and the streets of downtown Salt Lake have transformed from uptight and respectable to downright weird. This season’s characters are heavily from the Marvel universe. Everywhere you look there’s a Gamora or Peter Quill. Dozens of Tenth Doctor are mixed in with a healthy assortment of stormtroopers wander through the food courts.…
Jodi L. Milner, Author 