Friday, April 4 – 7:00pm
107 W. Main St. – Enterprise
Free Admission
The next Fishtrap Fireside takes place Friday, April 4 at Fishtrap’s event space on Main Street in Enterprise. Fireside also streams online at Fishtrap.org. The event features readings from Nate Lowe, Kirsten Rohla, and Nathan Slinker.
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.
February’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by The Nature Conservancy
More on the featured readers for March below:
Nate Lowe
Nate Lowe is a writer, teacher, and college administrator. A Midwest farm kid turned college writing professor, rurality has always been a touchstone for his career, writing, and personal life. In 2017 he was hired as Dean at EOU, an opportunity to advance his career dedicated to education and student success while nurturing his family’s love of remote and wild places. Over the years, Lowe’s creative essays – many of them about the farm and ranch folks he grew up with – have appeared in such journals as Ascent, South Dakota Review, Blood Orange Review, Beecher’s Magazine, and The Chattahoochee Review.
Kirsten Rohla
Kirsten Rohla lives in Joseph, Oregon, and has been writing her whole life. She is an enthusiastic life-long learner, loves a relaxing day on the lake, and works hard to keep her dog in the good life. She has also earned a BA in Creative Writing and Secondary Education; an MA in Curriculum & Instruction; an editing certificate; and taught literature and writing for fifteen years.
Nathan Slinker
Nathan Slinker has published poems in many journals including Third Coast, Mid-American Review, The Greensboro Review, and Kenyon Review Online. He has been a Fishtrap fellow, a semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and he was a finalist for New River Press’s Many Voices Prize. He runs Alder Slope Nursery just outside of Enterprise.