Friday, March 7 – 7:00pm
107 W. Main St. – Enterprise
Free Admission
The next Fishtrap Fireside takes place Friday, March 7 at Fishtrap’s event space on Main Street in Enterprise. Fireside also streams online at Fishtrap.org. The event features readings from Janis Carper, Kathy Hunter and Nodya Papineau.
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:
Janis Carper
Janis Carper was raised in rural eastern Washington state, spent a dozen years in Seattle and eventually found her home in Wallowa County in 2001. She’s worked at Fishtrap for 20 years, and has also spent those 20 years helping grow and nurture our music community through her work as director of the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance. As an artist and musician, she has always had a knack for songwriting, and is now exploring other forms of expression through the written word. When not making art or music, she loves spending her free time romping through the woods with her big brown dog. [janiscarper.com]
Kathy Hunter
An award-winning journalist, Kathy Hunter spent 23 years in Alaska writing for newspapers and magazines, editing Alaska Today magazine, and teaching. Her fondest memories of Alaska include feature writing for The Kodiak Fishwrapper and Litter Box Liner. Since “retiring” to Wallowa County she has won many hearts as a performer, an author of children’s books, and as the creator of whimsical clay sculptures.
Nodya Papineau
Nodya Papineau is a 25-year-old, 5th generation Wallowa Countian presently living in Lostine with her two daughters, Clover and Ivy; two cats, Beelz and Ruby; and her partner of seven years, Franklin, whom she met at the 2017 Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers. Nodya has been writing for as long as she can remember. Poetry and fantasy, in particular, fuel her soul. She was elected to the Fishtrap board of directors in 2023, the same year she earned her Bachelor’s in English at EOU. Nodya has spent much of her adult life teaching literacy to Wallowa County youth both as a paraeducator at Wallowa Middle School and through facilitating various after school programs for elementary, middle, and high school-aged students. Nodya can often be found in her kitchen experimenting with sourdough, gardening, kayaking, hiking through the Eagle Cap terrain, or galavanting through the many lands her backyard can become; slaying dragons, sailing the seas, brewing magic potions, and experiencing the beauty of childhood all over again through the eyes and imaginations of her own daughters.