On Friday, April 11 at 7:00pm, author, lecturer and screenwriter Hal Ackerman will be speaking at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale Utah about his work. His most recent novel STEIN STUNG is a soft-boiled detective story in which detective Harry Stein is pulled into a web of intrigue involving beekeepers, colony collapse, and mysterious events at the La Brea Tarpits.

Hal Ackerman is co-area head of the UCLA screenwriting program. His book on screenwriting, Write Screenplays That Sell…The Ackerman Way, renders all other books on the subject irrelevant. His fiction has appeared in many literary journals. The Dancer Horse was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2011. Belle and Melinda was Southeast Review’s WORLD’S BEST SHORT SHORT STORY. His script PRICK, (aka TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me,) was named BEST SCRIPT at the 2011 United Solo Festival. His debut novel, STEIN, STONED won the Lovey Award for best first novel; followed by STEIN, STUNG in May of 2012.

This project is supported by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts .

: Support for this event provided by The National Endowment for the Arts