Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is Brandon Schrand from Moscow, Idaho.

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Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner, a 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students selection, and a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

Schrand's work has appeared in he Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, Best American Essays 2007 and 2008, and numerous other publications and anthologies.

He has won the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, the Pushcart Prize, and two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions.

Schrand lives in Moscow, Idaho, with his wife and two children where he coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho.

See video of the actual Enders Hotel and read essays by Brandon Schrand at his Web site.

Read a review of The Enders Hotel, written by Jenny Shank, at NewWest.net.

Read a review of The Enders Hotel posted on The Utah Statesman online.

Recently published books include, Requiem for Locusts, a novel by Wendy Parciak from Missoula, Montana.

And Elsie Fox: Portrait of an Activist, by Karen Stevenson, with Elsie Fox - both from Miles City, Montana.

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.

And here’s a quote from Kim Barnes about The Enders Hotel:

“The Enders Hotel is a heartbroken love song to a time gone by, a place lost, and a people whose longings ring true long after the last page ends.”

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation — encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.

This program included music by Michael Blessing and Springhill.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.