Fishtrap Fireside
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 7:00pm
Free Admission
Or watch it online at fishtrap.org
Fishtrap Fireside launches its 12th season of readings and stories from local, Wallowa County writers on Friday, October 4 featuring Benjamin Curry, Terri Hall and Kelsey Juve. This event kicks off Fishtrap’s new season of programming. You’ll get to hear what’s coming up over the year ahead including monthly Writing Workshops, Winter Fishtrap, The Big Read, and Summer Fishtrap. Light snacks provided and drinks are available for purchase.
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.
October’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by The Bookloft.
More on the featured readers for October below:
Benjamin Curry
Benjamin Curry leads a quadruple life as husband, parent, poet/memoirist, and technical writer. When he isn’t doing one of those things, he sits on his front porch in Joseph and listens to the chickadees, juncos and robins twitter in the morning. The chair of Wallowa Land Trust board of directors, he has recent work published in Clockhouse literary journal.
Terri Hall
Terri Hall is in her sophomore year as a resident of the Wallowa Valley. A chronicler of this human experience, she wasted no time writing and sharing right here at last year’s Fishtrap Fireside’s open mic and in local publications. A singer/songwriter, performing/recording musician, public speaker, a defender of the developmentally challenged, a cheerleader for the underdog, community organizer, incidental fundraiser and mother, though not a grandmother as she had hoped she would be by now, Terri is a writer, not a journalist; a blogger, not a novelist; a storyteller of real life in plain words from a simple perspective. Terri whole-heartedly works at developing short stories, essays, and bad poetry. Terri is a woman of a certain age, a descendent of those who sailed the Mayflower and also those who walked the Trail of Tears. Her DNA and her heart led her to venture into the middle of nowhere to find her center of the universe. Summoning skills and talents that have developed over the decades, moving beyond the laurels on which she never intended to rest, Terri has begun writing a new chapter with the hope – there is always hope – that someday, somewhere, someone will say, “your words spoke to me.” … and offer a little cash to help finance her Medicare Romance adventures.
Kelsey Juve
Raised among the quail and wild flowers of Alder Slope, Kelsey Juve embodies place and community. She has been witness and recorder of the many joys and struggles that bloom in life. After moving back to Wallowa County, she was quick to discover it is where she wants her roots to grow. Wandering Alder Slope as a barefoot child, adventuring the back roads of the valley and Hells Canyon. Soaking in the serenity of the woods. As she grows towards womanhood, she seeks the comfort of her childhood adventures in this vast landscape. Yet what makes this valley so special in her heart is the community. Love, support, kindness, generosity. These are the principals she was raised on and those she wishes to instill in all of the lives she crosses paths with. A continuation of the adoration for the land and community that raised her. Through written word, Kelsey portrays her sense of wonderment of this magical place she is blessed to call home.