BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:39th Nevada Writers Hall of Fame induction and reception X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T181947Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53869525908632 DTSTART:20261107T020000Z DTEND:20261107T050000Z DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join the University Libraries as it hosts th e 39th Nevada Writers Hall of Fame event this Fall\, Nov. 6\n\nHall of Fam e inductee John L. White and Silver Pen awardees Amanda Skenandore and Fil Corbitt will be honored. Before the event\, Radical Cat will be selling b ooks by the authors. Immediately following the event there will be a desse rt and wine reception. For more information contact Maggie Ressel at resse l@unr.edu or 775.682.5653.\n\nDETAILS:\n\nWHEN: Friday\, November 6\, 202 6 6 p.m. Book sales 7 p.m. Ceremony 8 p.m. Wine\, desserts\, and book sign ing\n\nWHERE: Wells Fargo Auditorium\, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center\, 1s t floor University of Nevada\, Reno\n\nTickets are $25 per person in advan ce. Free parking will be available in the Brian Whalen Parking Complex.\n\ n \n\nGet to know the honorees:\n\nJohn L. Smith\n2026 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Inductee\n\nNative Nevadan John L. Smith has spent more than four decades writing about the characters and conundrums that make the state u nique. The author of many books\, his titles for the University of Nevada Press include Saints\, Sinners\, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War o ver the West’s Public Lands\; The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal’s Lifelon g Fight for Social Justice\, and as a co-author My Life in Politics: The M emoirs of Senator Richard H. Bryan. His work is featured in both volumes o f the acclaimed collections of American columnists\, Deadline Artists.\n\n Among his writing honors are the Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Award\ , Northwestern’s Foley-Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism\, ethics a wards from the University of Oregon and National Society of Professional J ournalists\, and honors from the Best of the West and Nevada Press Associa tion. He is a member of the press association’s Hall of Fame\, and has r eceived the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He’s also appeared on numerous documentaries\, including The American Experienc e: Las Vegas – an Unconventional History\, and Nobody Speak: Trials of t he Free Press.\n\nMarried to fellow Nevada Writers Hall of Fame member Sal ly Denton\, John has a daughter\, three stepsons\, a grandson\, and three dogs. He lives in Reno\, where he writes an award-winning column for The N evada Independent\, freelances widely\, and is working on his next book.\n \nAmanda Skenandore\n2026 Silver Pen Awardee\n\nAmanda Skenandore is the a ward-winning author of six historical novels\, including her most recent\, When No One Else Will. Her books have been translated into multiple langu ages and garnered accolades from the American Library Association\, Reader ’s Digest\, Silicon Valley Reads\, and Apple Books. In 2024\, she was aw arded the Nevada Arts Council Literary Fellowship. Her writing explores le sser-known corners of history and\, drawing on her 16 years as a registere d nurse\, often includes themes of medicine\, justice\, and belonging. Ama nda lives in Las Vegas with her husband and their pet turtle\, Lenore.\n\n Fil Corbitt\n2026 Silver Pen Awardee\n\nFil Corbitt is a writer and radio maker from Reno\, Nevada. A graduate of the Reynolds School of Journalism at UNR\, Fil writes about sound\, western identity and landscape. Their au dio work has appeared on NPR\, Snap Judgement\, BBC’s Shortcuts\, and on public and community radio stations across North America and beyond. Fil ’s weekly short-form radio segment Postcards from The Wind airs on stati ons from Miami\, Florida to Talkeetna\, Alaska. Their radio show\, The Win d\, is a poetic\, journalistic\, narrative show that’s been featured in festivals and outlets across the world\, winning a Signal Award in 2025 — a gold medal in the “best writing” category. More at The Wind.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE NEVADA WRITERS HALL OF FAME:\n\nThe Nevada Writers Hall of Fame was founded in 1988 for two purposes: an annual event hosted and o rganized by the University Libraries at the University of Nevada\, Reno honoring Nevada's finest writers\, and a stimulus to encourage excellen ce among emerging writers in the Silver State. The Silver Pen Award was established in 1996 as part of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame to recog nize writers who work in or write about Nevada\, are in their midcareer\ , and have already shown substantial achievement. LOCATION:Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center (MIKC)\, Wells Fargo Auditorium\, f irst floor SUMMARY:39th Nevada Writers Hall of Fame induction and reception URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.unr.edu/event/39th-nevada-writers-hall-of-fame -induction-and-reception CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture CATEGORIES:Lectures & Seminars CATEGORIES:Community Outreach CATEGORIES:Social Events CATEGORIES:Awards & Recognition END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR