Ian Neligh has won many state and national journalism awards for his writing and reporting, including first place for online in-depth reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and first place for investigative reporting from the Colorado Press Association. He has also won numerous awards for his humorous writing. As a journalist, Neligh has flown […]
legends
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
Ian Neligh rode his childhood fascination with heroes and artifacts of the Old West to a year-long project
Ian Neligh has won many state and national journalism awards for his writing and reporting, including first place for online in-depth reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and first place for investigative reporting from the Colorado Press Association. He has also won numerous awards for his humorous writing. As a journalist, Neligh has flown […]
Posted inBusiness, Culture, News, Outdoors
Dragon boat racing, with its unlikely rise and massive Denver festival, is adapting to include everyone
Despite recent back surgery and a left leg lost in a military accident, Jataya Taylor can’t stop smiling. She’s one of the regulars on a recent evening at Sloan’s Lake as her team trains for the upcoming dragon-boat race. Taylor sits in a newly retrofitted blue stadium seat with a special leg strap to keep […]
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
Fascination with legends, curses and ghost stories — and the truth behind them — inspired “The Past Is Never”
Tiffany Quay Tyson’s “The Past Is Never” is the winner of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction. Her first book, “Three Rivers” (Thomas Dunne, 2015), was a finalist for both that award and for the Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction. Though she grew up in Mississippi, she now resides in Denver, where she […]