Local writers fill pages of ‘SpokeWrite’
The summer issue of “SpokeWrite: The Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Journal of Art and Writing” is out, packed full of fiction, poetry, essays, photography and reviews by the region’s writers.
Contributors include: James Parry, Le Anne Kemmish, Bob Manion, Virginia Meyer, Darin Z. Krogh, Cordelia S. Spicer, Barbara Hollace, Philip Coffeen, Michael Andrew Marsden, Devin Barber, Ken Staley, Neal Peters, Vicki McBride, Marcus Nicholson, Jr., Autumn R. Saunders, Andy Lang, Christine Greiner, Don Wall, R. Steven Heaps, Hazel Hunter, Lucas Hutson, Eileen Starr, Olivia Croom, Diana Wickes, John Rochford, Eliza Plummer, C. K. Crigger and Meghan Herington.
You can find it at area bookstores or directly from the publisher, Gray Dog Press, www.graydogpress.com.
Library computers
A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Shadle Library for a number of new public-use computers underwritten by the Gates Foundation and local donors.
The Shadle computers are among 50 new computers which are now in place throughout the Spokane Public Library system.
These new Dell computers arrived at an opportune time. With the recession, computer usage has shot up in the city’s libraries.
The ceremony will honor the local donors who matched the Gates donation, including the Johnston-Fix Foundation, the Spokane Public Library Foundation, the Friends of the Library, the Inland Northwest Community Foundation, the Spokane Public Library’s capital reserve fund and Cathy and Charles Simon.
New library options
The Spokane County Library is offering two creative new options beyond the traditional book this summer:
• The TumbleBook Library: This is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which can introduce reading to kids in an electronic format. The collection can be accessed from every computer in the library with an Internet connection, or at home from the library’s Web site, www.scld.org.
• Playaways: A Playaway is a self-playing digital audiobook for teens and ’tweens. All 10 county library branches offer a number of titles. You can check them out like a regular book.