Literary footnotes

ALEX CALDIERO, Utah performance poet, will present "One Year From Later: Recent Works & Quirks," Friday, 7 p.m., Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East.

NATASHA SAJE, Poet and Westminster College English professor, has been awarded the 2004 Albert J. Colton Fellowship Award by the board of the Utah Humanities Council. In 2004, Saje will work on her manuscript of essays, which incorporate contemporary literary theory and the writing and reading of poetry. The Colton Fellowship supports funding of original research in the humanities on condition that the recipient share the results with the general public. For more information about the fellowship, call 359-9670 or visit www.utahhumanities.org.

SUNSTONE FOUNDATION announces the 2004 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest, supported by the Eugene and Charlotte England Education Fund. Entries should relate to LDS experience, theology or world view. They will be judged by Mormon authors and writing professors. The winner(s) will be announced in Sunstone and read at the 2004 Association for Mormon Letters Conference. $400 will be shared among winning entries. Each author may submit up to three entries, plus $5 per entry, then postmark or deliver four copies of each entry to the Sunstone office, 343 N. 300 West, by Jan. 16, 2004. For more information, call 355-5926 or visit www.sunstoneonline.com.

SUNSTONE announces the June 30, 2004, deadline for entries for this year's contest in short stories (under 6,000 words) and short-short stories (under 1,500 words). For more information, call 355-4043 or visit www.sunstoneonline.com.

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