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Keaton Charles Butler will give a reading of his newly published book My Life as a Human on May 1, 5-7 p.m. at Salt Lake Community College in the Cultural Commons of the Academic and Administration Building at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus. The public is invited to a reception with food and an opportunity to meet Butler and other finalists in the 2013-2014 Chapbook Competition. Competition judge Karin Anderson, professor of English and literature at SLCC, said Butler’s winning entry is “… one of the most striking experiences of my career. Absorbed in the idiosyncratic consciousness of one “human” in search of another… My Life as a Human portrays the race of gaping nihilism against the redemption of desire.” Each year Salt Lake Community College holds a chapbook competition where students can showcase their literary works and compete to have the opportunity to become a published writer. The Publication Studies class works all spring semester to create a book out of the ...

Keaton Charles Butler won Salt Lake Community College’s 4 th Annual Chapbook Competition with his fictional manuscript, My Life as a Human . Contest judge and Utah Valley University English professor Dr. Karin Anderson called Butler’s manuscript “one of the most striking reading experiences of my career.” The College’s Publication Studies class this spring will publish 250 copies of his winning manuscript, which will be showcased publicly with a book launch and reading. Butler is a writing assistant with the College’s Community Writing Center and is pursuing a degree in education. He describes himself as a poet, writer and an “accomplished” drummer. Some of his literary works are available for purchase at http://abcbluepoet.blogspot.com. For his online bio on the College’s website, Butler wrote that his motto is, “Write, write, write, write and then eat a little bit, then write, write, write, then afternoon teatime, then more writing.”