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Thursday, January 21, 2021
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
Write. Learn. Connect. Write more.
■ ■ FEBRUARY WRITING WORKSHOPS EXPLORE AND CULTIVATE RESILIENCY
ENTERPRISE — Fishtrap
offers several writing workshops
throughout the year designed to
challenge you to learn new skills,
take risks with your work, and cre-
ate connections with writers from
your neighborhood or around the
country.
The workshops cover many
genres, from essays to poetry, mem-
oir and fiction. There are work-
shops for writers of all abilities
taught by experienced writers who
are skilled at teaching their craft.
With the aim of reducing the
spread of COVID-19, all Fishtrap
Writing Workshops now are held
online via Zoom. Recordings of
workshops may be made available
to registered students.
For more details and to register,
go to www.fishtrap.org/writing-
workshops.
Scholarships or reduced registra-
tion rates may be available. Call
Fishtrap at 541-426-3623 for more
information.
Fishtrap’s offices are located in
the historic Coffin House, 400 E.
Grant St., in Enterprise. The mail-
ing address is P.O. Box 38, Enter-
prise 97828.
B ECOME A
F ISHTRAPPER
Fishtrapper Club members receive
a 10% discount on all workshop and
program registrations as well as
special events. Memberships start at
just $5 per month and help support
all Fishtrap programs. Sign up for an
automatic monthly contribution and
receive some cool perks in return.
In addition to the discount, Fishtrap-
per Club benefits include a Fishtrap
bumper sticker and journal and a
regular writing prompt from Fishtrap
faculty/instructor/staff. Sign up at
www.fishtrap.org/be-a-fishtrapper.
FEBRUARY WORKSHOPS
Writing workshops planned for February
are related thematically to January’s Winter
Fishtrap, one of the organization’s annual
“Clear Thinking” programs, which explored the
role Resilience plays in our communities, our
cultures, our world and our lives.
RESILIENCE POEMS — READING
AND WRITING
Led by Kim Stafford
Feb. 6-7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Registration is $360 / $324 for Fishtrappers
Limited to 12 participants
This two-day virtual workshop invites you to
cast your net wide through the cultures of the
world to find poems that speak to resilience in
the personal, cultural or natural worlds.
Once each participant has a poem or two that
sings for survival, we’ll convene online to read
these lyrics one by one, and write in response
to what we find there — in theme, story, word
magic or questions we must live.
The workshop will include many opportuni-
ties to write and to share work in progress for
supportive response from fellow writers. No
experience is required as a writer, just curiosity
and hunger to explore.
KIM STAFFORD, now retired, was the director
of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis &
Clark College.
Co-founder of
Fishtrap and
former Poet Lau-
reate of Oregon,
he is a seeker
after ways to
serve through
poetry. He is the
author of “Singer
Come from Afar:
Poems,” which is
forthcoming in
April from Red Hen Press, and lives in Portland
with his wife and children.
WEEKEND OUTLOOK
CULTIVATING RESILIENCE — WHEN
WRITING ABOUT TRAUMA
Led by Justin Hocking
Feb. 13, 10 a.m. to noon
Registration is $60 / $55 for Fishtrappers
How might a regular writing practice help us
recover from trauma?
What techniques can we use to regulate
our own nervous systems when writing about
emotionally charged material?
And, when writing for a wider audience, how
do we transform traumatic experiences into
art, while taking care not to overwhelm our
readers?
To address these and other questions, this
workshop will explore healing methods based
on the relatively new field of Narrative Therapy
and contemporary body-focused psychology.
Via a series of gentle writing prompts, we’ll
also experiment with sensory grounding,
perspective shifting, intentional choreography
of various levels of intimacy and distance and
“medicine stories.”
Though we’ll focus largely on narrative non-
fiction, we’ll also investigate how these tech-
niques can be employed across various genres,
including poetry and fiction.
JUSTIN HOCKING is author of the Oregon Book
Award-winning memoir “The Great Floodgates
of the Wonderworld” as well as the chapbooks
“PS: The Wolves” and “Reclamation: Essays.”
He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Stewart H.
Holbrook Literary Legacy award, an Oregon
Literary Fel-
lowship for fic-
tion, and Willa-
mette Writers’
Humanitarian
Award for his
community
outreach work.
His essays,
fiction and
poetry have
appeared in
Poets & Writ-
ers magazine,
The Columbia Journal, The Normal School,
Northwest Review and elsewhere.
Along with an MFA in creative writing, he
holds a BA in psychology and a Certificate in
Narrative Therapy Foundations from the Van-
couver School of Narrative Therapy. He teaches
creative nonfiction and publishing in the MFA
and BFA writing programs at Portland State
University.
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