We hope you'll join us at Shades Pub (366 South State St.) for a burlesque performance, author presentation and Q & A, Carolina Reaper eating contest, and good old-fashioned book signing. Please note: This event is 21+ and proof of vaccination is required.
You can learn more and make a $20 donation to help the organizers cover event costs here. |
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Join Utah poets as they read Ukrainian poetry to benefit the Utah Ukrainian Association. This event is sponsored by Weller Book Works and The King's English Bookshop in cooperation with the Utah Honorary Council of Ukraine.
This event will be held in the South Court of Trolley Square just outside Weller Book Works' first floor entrance.
Our readers will include: Utah's current Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal, former Utah Poet Laureate Katherine Coles, Michael Sowder, Rob Carney, Kimberly Johnson, Natasha Sajé, Jay Hopler and Christopher Cokinos. Members of the Utah Ukrainian community will share the written word in Ukrainian to inspire solidarity and humanitarian action.
Tickets are $25 and all proceeds go to the Utah Ukrainian Association. Additional donations welcome.
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Bring you little ones to storytime every Saturday at 3pm! Listen to visiting authors and our booksellers read favorite stories in-store and live on Instagram @wellerbookworks.
HELD WEEKLY ON SATURDAYS
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Join us for a literary Kaffeeklatsch! Books, coffee, snacks, and chats every Tuesday morning at MyAmour Café, located directly across from our first floor entrance.
HELD WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS
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Lance Olsen is author of more than 25 books of and about innovative writing. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. He teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
At the center of Skin Elegies stands an American couple who have fled their increasingly repressive country, now under the authoritarian rule of the Reformation Government, by transferring to a quantum computer housed in North Africa. The novel's structure mimics a constellation of firing neurons—a sparking collage of many tiny narraticules flickering through the brain of one of the refugees as it is digitized. |
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Sadie Hoagland has a PhD in fiction from the University of Utah. She is a former editor of Quarterly West and currently teaches fiction at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Strange Children tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl in a polygamist commune who fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father's child while the boy commits murder four hundred miles away—a crime that will slowly unravel the community.
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Melanie Rae Thon is the author of many works of fiction, including The Voice of the River. Her work has been in many journals and anthologies. She has taught at Emerson College, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Syracuse University, Ohio State University, and the University of Utah.
In The Voice of the River, a search for missing seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne and his dog Talia illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires. Each person who comes to the river brings his or her secret needs and desires; each has known loss, and all are survivors. Kai and Talia belong to, and are loved by, a whole community. As strangers work together toward a single cause, they become family—bound by love not only to the ones lost, but to all who gather. |
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Join Catherine and the crafters of WBW for casual bookish chinwags. All crafts and crafters welcome.
For the Zoom link, please email catherine@wellerbookworks.com.
HELD EVERY 2ND & 4TH WEDNESDAY
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Today we'll read poems by Shel Silvestein. We'll also write our own poems and hang them on our Poet Tree!
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Takwa Gordon and Aitch Alexandar have both written powerful memoirs exploring their lived experiences with trauma, and journeys to recovery. We're delighted to host this creative writing workshop with them.
The Journey to Healing is a workshop that explores healing after experiencing trauma. Gordon and Alexandar will share from their memoirs and facilitate a trauma-informed writing practice that centers attendees’ lived experiences.
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Share your poetry, short prose, music, monologue, magic, or bagpiping! Signup opens at 5:45 PM the night of, and available slots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
HELD MONTHLY ON THE LAST TUESDAY
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Deborah Goodrich Royce will join us virtually on our YouTube channel to read from and discuss her book, Ruby Falls, a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own.
Deborah holds a BA in French and Italian from Lake Erie College and an honorary doctorate from the same institution. In an earlier life, she was an actress in film and television and a story editor at Miramax Films. Ruby Falls is her second psychological thriller, and she owes a debt of gratitude for its inspiration to Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock.
(Psychological thriller)
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In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now.
Riley Black (she/her) has been heralded as “one of our premier gifted young science writers” and is the critically-acclaimed author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Written in Stone, and When Dinosaurs Ruled. An online columnist for Scientific American, Riley has become a widely-recognized expert on paleontology and has appeared on programs such as Nova, Science Friday, HuffingtonPost Live, and All Things Considered. Riley has also written on nerdy pop culture.
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Join us in-store or online in celebrating Independent Bookstore Day! IBD is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. In addition to the events we have planned for you throughout the day, watch out for exclusive books and literary items you can only get on IBD from your friendly neighborhood bookseller.
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12-2PM — In-Store Book Signing & Reading
Kick off the afternoon with a book signing and reading with Bree Moore, author of the Shadowed Minds and Lost Souls series.
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Kate Hoefler and Jessixa Bagley, the author and illustrator of Courage Hats, will take over our Instagram to share this charming new children’s picture book!
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We'll also have a raffle for three stencils made by Tony Weller, some awesome IBD merch, and even some live music.
Be sure to check our calendar and event description for updates and additions to our IBD festivities! |
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Come visit us!
SUNDAY 12-5
MONDAY-THURSDAY 10-8
FRIDAY & SATURDAY 10-9
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Can't make it to the store?
Support your local indie from home!
Order online or by phone, then pick up in-store or curbside! We also ship!
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Give us a call at 801-328-2586
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Thanks for supporting your local, independent bookstore!
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Weller Book Works | 801-328-2586
Store hours: Sunday 12PM–5PM | Monday–Thursday 10AM–8PM | Friday & Saturday 10AM–9PM
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