Reading at NIC

North Idaho College's literary magazine Trestle Creek Review and the NIC English Club are presenting a reading by Spokane author Shawn Vestal from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Writing Center, Lee Hall Annex. The reading is free and open to the public.

Vestal's "Godforsaken Idaho," a collection of short stories, was named the winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which honors a debut book that "represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise." He also published "A.K.A. Charles Abbott," a short memoir, as a Kindle Single. His stories have appeared in "Tin House," "McSweeney's," "Ecotone" and other journals. He writes a column for The Spokesman-Review and teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

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