Friday, October 3 – 7:00pm
107 W. Main St. – Enterprise
Free Admission
The 13th season of Fishtrap Fireside kicks off on Friday, October 3 at 7pm featuring readings from Zanni Schauffler, Trilby Shirley, and Oregon Book Award winner, Eliot Treichel.
Fishtrap Fireside is a monthly reading series designed to celebrate diverse voices from local writers and storytellers. Each month offers a fresh look at what people who live in Northeast Oregon are thinking about and writing down. Since the program launched in 2013, more than 170 writers have stepped up to the podium to share something they’ve written. With each Fishtrap Fireside event, the audience gets to enjoy a variety of storytelling from their friends and neighbors including poetry, fiction, history, humor, memoir, sci-fi fantasy, essay, travelog, food stories, comedy, and much more.
Fishtrap Fireside takes place at Fishtrap’s event space on Main Street in Enterprise. For those who can’t make it in-person, anyone anywhere can take in Fireside online at Fishtrap.org and on Fishtrap’s YouTube Channel. Admission is free although donations are always welcome. Light snacks are provided and drinks are available for purchase. An open mic takes place after the featured readings. Five spots are available to sign up for when the doors open at 6:30pm. Writers of all ages and experience are encouraged to come.
October’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by The Bookloft.
More on the featured readers for October below:
Zanni Schauffler
Zanni Schauffler is mainly a poet, but she also writes prose and does all sorts of visual art. 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 of poems and is also working on a book of prose about how she ended up in Wallowa County and why she stayed/is staying so long. She lives in Enterprise with her husband Frank, their big dog, and their two big cats.
Trilby Shirley
Trilby Helen Shirley was orphaned twice by age twelve. She was also adopted twice; once as a two- year old; and, again, when she was seventy-one. Google “Trilby Shirley Adoption” and read what the Yakima Herald had to say about it. Trilby grew up in Washington state and worked as a clerical typist immediately upon graduating high school in 1959. At that time her name wasn’t Trilby. She was known as Helen, a name she never felt was ‘her.’ While go-go dancing in San Francisco in the 1960s, she legally changed her name to Trilby, keeping Helen as a middle name. She worked most of her life as a judicial assistant to several judges in Alaska and Oregon. Trilby and husband Rich moved to Wallowa in 2004. Rich was a retired finish carpenter and Trilby worked in the office at the Enterprise mental health clinic. Rich played standup bass and sang with several local musical groups here until his passing in 2021. Trilby continues to be active with the annual Hootenanny fundraiser for Wallowa Music Alliance and is a member of Fishtrap and the Odd Fellows Lodge.
Eliot Treichel
Eliot Treichel is a writer, trail runner, and river rat. 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.