The WinterSong reading and book signing will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s Little Carnegie Room.

Poet Christopher Howell and fiction writer Gregory Spatz will introduce their new books, read from old favorites, answer audience questions, and autograph their books. Books will be offered for sale at the event. The event is free and open to all.

Howell is author of a dozen poetry collections, including “Love’s Last Number”, “Gaze”, and “Dreamless” and “Possible: Poems New and Selected”. He lives in Spokane, where he teaches in Eastern Washington University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.

Spatz holds degrees from Haverford College, University of New Hampshire, and The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He now lives in Spokane, where he teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. He is the author of “What Could Be Saved” and of the novels “Inukshuk”, “Fiddler’s Dream” and “No One But Us”, as well as short story collections.