Friday, January 5, 2024 at 7:00pm
107 W. Main Street – Enterprise
Or watch it online here
Fishtrap Fireside continues its 11th season of readings and stories from local, Wallowa County writers on Friday, January 5 featuring Jim Dameron, Talia Filipek and Zanni Schauffler.
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.
January’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by Ruby Peak Realty, Diane Daggett, Broker
More on the featured readers for January below:
Jim Dameron
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Jim Dameron is an essayist and poet. He’s had pieces published in The Missouri Review, Agni, the Mid-American Review and many other literary journals. His life was bumping along quite pleasantly until May 15th, 2023 when he got sick. On that day he went from seemingly healthy to totally paralyzed—the result of Guillain Barre Syndrome. He’s much better now and no longer paralyzed but is still trying to make sense of the experience. It has left him with much to ponder, much to learn, and a few things to share.
Talia Filipek
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Talia Filipek mothers two little ones and delights in capturing the world, love, and endearing characters with her camera. Her creative practice has always expanded with a wild landscape at foot, in forever pursuit of a story previously untold. It’s in the rare, quick and quiet times that she puts pen to paper in an attempt to decipher her memories. With thanks to the Bryn Lunde Memorial Scholarship, she was fortunate to spend a week last summer with great authors and poet laureates at Summer Fishtrap, whom inspired her to tend to this little writing flame. Her writing has often been a practice of personal reflection, but Fishtrap has given her a space to share these inner workings with the world from her home in Joseph, Oregon.
Zanni Schauffler
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Zanni Schauffler writes poems and makes lots of different kinds of art. She lives in Enterprise with her husband/human encyclopedia named Frank, a big dog named Ferdinand, and two long-haired cats named Humphrey and Blondie. Zanni has won an Oregon Literary Fellowship and some other nice awards too, and she’s proud of the places she’s published her poems. She is working on completing her second book, even though the first one has not yet been published. She does believe the first book will find its place sometime while she’s alive, and that the second book will take shape in the next year. Zanni’s favorite activity is to laugh so hard that the sound stops coming out.