Friday, March 6 – 7:00pm
107 W. Main St. – Enterprise
Free Admission
Fishtrap Fireside takes place Friday, March 6 at Fishtrap on Main Street in Enterprise. Celebrate Women’s History Month at Fishtrap Fireside! Longtime Fishtrap friends Melisa Bush, Beth Estock, and Madeline Lau take the podium for a night of good writing and community. Doors and open mic sign ups open at 6:30pm.
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.
The March Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by Good Groceries.
More on the featured readers for March below:
Melisa Bush
Melisa Bush grew up barefoot in the Ozarks, with a mother who played organ for weddings and funerals and a father who drove wreckers to every accident in the four-state area. Supper table conversation was pure Flannery O’Connor. Her parents often threatened to send her to Bible College to become a preacher’s wife. Instead, she took the “sampler platter” in life, spending decades abroad—in journalism and teaching at international schools across Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Earthquakes, coups, Taj Mahal sunrises, grasshopper dinners – a real banquet. She fell in love with her Oregonian husband, Bill, on a Japanese microbus over a shared copy of A River Runs Through It and he introduced her to the Wallowas which became their family home. Melisa writes essays, poetry, and memoir—though much of her writing has been lost to bad computers, bad decisions, fires — and the wind.
Beth Estock
Beth Estock is a pastor, a yogi, and a master certified leadership coach who loves living where the mountains are persuasive and long walks double as thinking time. She’s interested in the holy hiding in plain sight and in stories that refuse to behave themselves. Beth spends a lot of time listening—to people, the land, and the spirits that whisper when we’re paying attention. She believes words can build connections, loosen certainties, and occasionally get us into just the right kind of trouble.
Madeline Lau
Madeline Lau is an innkeeper, bard, frequent jester, and a whole slew of other medieval titles. She’s raising her passel of 7th generation Oregonian sons on mirth and irony and believes people should be generally more uncomfortable.