Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:00pm
107 W. Main Street – Enterprise
Or watch it online at fishtrap.org
Fishtrap Fireside continues its 11th season of readings and stories from local, Wallowa County writers on Friday, December 1 featuring Beth Estock, Madeline Lau, plus special guest, Oregon Book Award winning author Eliot Treichel.
Fireside is a monthly reading series designed to feature diverse voices of local writers. Each month offers a fresh look at what people of the West are thinking about and writing down. Since the program launched in 2013, more than 150 Wallowa County writers have stepped up to the podium or logged on virtually to share their work. Audiences have enjoyed a variety of storytelling including poems, fiction, history, humor, memoir, sci-fi fantasy, essay, travelogue, food stories, comedy, and much more.
Fishtrap Fireside takes place in Fishtrap’s new event space, the historic Bowlby Building on Main Street in Enterprise. Admission is free although donations are always welcome. For those who can’t make it to Enterprise, anyone anywhere can take in Fireside online at Fishtrap.org and on Fishtrap’s YouTube Channel.
November’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by Terminal Gravity Brewing
More on the featured readers for December below:
Beth Estock
Beth Estock has a love-hate relationship with the church. A progeny of a Catholic and Protestant marriage, she spent her over-churched childhood on the shores of Lake Erie. When she professed her allegiance to Methodism her Catholic grandmother told her she was going to hell. Being inquisitive, Beth took some theology classes in college to find out if her grandmother was right. That and her love of church camps compelled her to go to seminary at Emory University. She pastored churches in Georgia and Oregon until she got a metaphysical kick in the pants to quit. She came into her fullness as a master leadership coach and yoga instructor. Beth has written two books and yet, she doesn’t consider herself a writer. She has fallen back in love with church as the pastor of Joseph United Methodist. You can find her there on Sundays with a huge smile on her face incredulous that Love has brought her here.
Madeline Lau
Madeline Lau is a 6th generation Oregonian from a small grass seed town in the Willamette Valley. She’s been a creative dilettante as long as she can remember and recently realized she has profound ADD. She’s a mom of 3 wild boys and partner to her extremely patient significant other. When she moved to Wallowa County she noticed her skill set was designed for 19th century dinner parties and she’s been working to remedy that. She writes stuff, plays music, freaks out, and wanders around in the outside.
Eliot Trichel
Eliot Treichel is a writer, runner, and river enthusiast. His work includes the young adult novel A Series of Small Maneuvers and the story collection Close Is Fine. A past Fishtrap Fellow, he is also the recipient of the Reading the West Award, the Oregon Book Awards Readers’ Choice Award, and the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award. Originally from Wisconsin, he now lives in La Grande, Oregon, where he is an Assistant Professor of English/Writing at Eastern Oregon University.