Evening events are open to the public FREE of charge,
except for Friday night’s Keynote which is $25/person – Tickets available here.
Friday afternoon’s Youth Showcase is also free and open to the public.
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Monday, July 10 – First Day of Summer Fishtrap!
2:00-4:00pm – Check-In
4:00pm – Welcome to Summer Fishtrap
4:30-5:30pm – Workshop Orientation
5:30-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30 pm – Opening Day Kickoff with Fishtrap’s
Shannon McNerney and a reading from Fishtrap
co-founder, Kim StaffordFollowed by author book signing.
Tuesday, July 11
6:00am – Sunrise with Craig Childs
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am-Noon – Morning Writing Workshops
Noon-2:00pm – Lunch
1:00-3:00pm – Youth Activities
1:30 – 3:00pm – Poet Laureate Panel Moderated by Robert Stubblefield. Panelists:Anis Mojgani – Rena Priest – Kim Stafford
4:00-5:00pm – Open Mic Readings
5:00-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30pm – Faculty Readings: JaNay Brown-Wood,
Debra Magpie Earling, Jamie FordFollowed by author book signing
Wednesday, July 12
6:00am – Sunrise with Craig Childs
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am-Noon – Morning Writing Workshops
Noon-2:00pm – Lunch
1:00-3:00pm – Youth Activities
1:30pm – Craft Talk with Karen Auvinen – Living Memory:
Techniques for Making the Dim Past a Vivid Present
3:00-4:00pm – Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center – 100th Anniversary
Join Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center’s founder and executive Director Gwen Trice to discuss the work of storytelling and place making. Maxville Oregon was a segregated logging community in Northeast Oregon between 1923 and 1933, existing when state laws prevented Black people from living, working, and owning land in Oregon. Gwen will discuss how Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center is working to reimagine Maxville as a generational space which recalls the history of the site and seeks to make an inclusive space for continued historical process.
4:00-5:00pm – Open Mic Readings
5:00-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30pm – Faculty Readings: Roberto Ascalon,
Followed by author book signing.
Thursday, July 13
6:00am – Sunrise with Craig Childs
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am-Noon – Morning Writing Workshops
Noon-2:00pm – Lunch
1:00-3:00pm – Youth Activities
1:30 – 3:00pm – Generations Panel moderated by Shannon McNerney. Panelists: Roberto Ascalon – JaNay Brown-Wood – Jamie Ford – Luis Alberto Urrea
3:00-4:00pm – A discussion on Debra Magpie Earling’s new book, The Lost Journals of Sacajawea with the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture’s Library Director and Fishtrap co-founder, Rich Wandschneider.
4:00-5:00pm – Open Mic Readings
5:00-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30pm – Faculty Readings: Perrin Kerns, Rena Priest,
Robbert Stubblefield
Followed by author book signing
Friday, July 14
6:00am – Sunrise with Craig Childs
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am-Noon – Morning Writing Workshops
Noon-2:00pm – Lunch
1:30-3:00pm – Youth Showcase
3:00-4:00pm – Fishtrap Fellows Reading
4:00-5:00pm – Open Mic Readings
5:00-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30pm – Generations: Keynote Address with
Jamie Ford and reading from Anis Mojgani
Followed by author book signing.
Saturday, July 15
6:00am -Sunrise with Craig Childs
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am-Noon – Morning Writing Workshops
Noon-2:00pm – Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm – Craft Talk with Perrin Kerns: Make a Tiny Film on Your iPhone – Using Your Writing from the Week
3:00-4:00pm – Yearlong Writers Workshop Readings
4:00-5:00pm – Open Mic Readings
5:00-7:00pm – Dinner
7:30pm – Reading from Luis Alberto Urrea, Music with
Kate Power & Steve Einhorn and Beth Wood
Followed by author book signing.
Sunday, July 16
7:00-9:00am – Breakfast
10:00-11:00am – Wrap up your Summer Fishtrap experience with readings from Eastern Oregon University’s Master of Fine Arts Students in Creative Writing.
11:00-Noon – Hellos and Goodbyes
