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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Fishtrap to hold fi nal Fireside of season Friday
Includes one
regular, two
newcomers
Chieftain staff
ENTERPRISE — Friday,
April 2, will feature the fi nal
Fishtrap Fireside of the sea-
son, with readings by three
Wallowa County writers,
according to a press release.
It can be viewed online
at
fi shtrap.org,
Fish-
trap’s YouTube channel or
webpage at fi shtrap.org/
fi shtrap-fi reside-2/.
This eighth season wraps
up with long-time Fishtrap
favorite, Pamela Royes, and
two new voices in Dustin
Lyons and Adele Schott.
Royes lives on a farm
with her husband, Skip, and
an undetermined number of
cows, horses, mules, dogs,
cats, ducks, chickens and
honeybees. Pam loves plant-
ing things, baking sourdough
bread, playing her ukulele
and writing. She is the author
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is currently
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for
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Lyons
and is work-
ing on a
book of essays about people,
food and landscape.
Lyons was raised in a
small, defunct timber town
in Southwest Washington
state where he developed an
unshakeable case of poesy.
The notion that writing could
become his vocation — per-
haps even a vehicle to world-
wide acclaim — was com-
panioned with a likewise
dubious push toward pro-
fessional-athlete superstar-
dom. Although the latter
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dream never came true, a
decade of seasonal work in
Alaska, along with several
forays into Asia and Latin
America produced countless
journals chockfull of nearly
uninterpretable masterwork.
In response to these liter-
ary triumphs he decided to
shift gears and study shoe-
making in Ashland, even-
tually co-founding Alka-
hest Leather. The world of
humans being as it is, a life-
long affi nity for critters and
quiet space to write down her
musings, recipes and expe-
riences. Those are some of
her favorite moments. Being
a part of Fishtrap Fireside
will be the fi rst time she has
read original work out loud to
strangers.
Fishtrap Fireside is a
monthly reading series fea-
turing diverse voices from
around Wallowa County.
While the Firesides are usu-
ally in-person readings,
because of the COVID-19
pandemic Fishtrap has gone
to a virtual format, allow-
ing those interested to view it
anytime they like.
The April episode of Fish-
trap Fireside is sponsored by
Wallowa Lake Lodge.
To learn more visit Fish-
trap.org.
More writers’ workshops off ered by Fishtrap
Chieftain staff
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Royes
wild places drew him to the
base of Chief Joseph Moun-
tain, where he owns a tum-
bledown cabin on a couple of
uncombed acres. The words
keep coming and he does his
best to intelligibly lay them
down.
Schott was brought up
slightly feral on her fami-
ly’s multigenerational ranch
where she decided she
wanted to be a cowboy when
she grew up. Besides cow-
boying around the West, she
has held a wide variety of
vocations and, most recently,
a wife and mother to the three
best men she has ever known.
Infl uenced by some of the
greatest storytellers around,
Schott always has loved to
write. Mostly she writes lists
but sometimes she fi nds the
ENTERPRISE — Fish-
trap’s spring series of writers’
workshops continue online in
April with The Land Beneath
Your Feet: Writing With
Nature — An Online Work-
Featuring beautiful cabinetry designed and manufactured by
shop With Karen Auvinen,
according to a press release.
For four Wednesdays —
April 7, 14, 21 and 28 —
from 6-7:30 p.m., Auvinen
will explore the dual
catastrophe of the COVID-
19 pandemic and climate
change and how they have
brought our collective expe-
riences of nature and the nat-
ural world into sharp focus.
In this workshop, the fer-
tile ground beneath our feet
as the container for the sto-
ries we have to tell will be
examined, whether they be
fi ction, poetry or nonfi ction.
How do we create a sense
of place and how do we use
the natural world as ground
for refl ection? Students will
have weekly “nature work”
assignments, but plan to
spend time writing each
week.
Auvinen is an award-win-
ning poet, mountain woman,
life-long Westerner, writer
and the author of the mem-
oir Rough Beauty (Scribner),
a fi nalist for the Colorado
Book Award and the Willa
Award.
Her work has appeared in
The New York Times, LitHub,
Real Simple, Westword, The
Colorado Sun, as well as
numerous literary journals.
She earned an MA in poetry
from the University of Col-
orado under the mentorship
of Lucia Berlin and a Ph.D
in fi ction from the Univer-
Auvinen
Balmer
sity of Wisconsin — Mil-
waukee. She teaches writ-
ing workshops at Lighthouse
Writers Workshops and fi lm,
pop culture, and storytell-
ing to fi rst-years at CU —
Boulder. Past gigs include
Writer-in-Residence
for
the state of Colorado, edi-
tor, book-buyer, rural postal
route driver, caterer, clinic
assistant, landscaper, sum-
mer camp director and guest
chef. She lives in the Colo-
rado mountains with the art-
ist Greg Marquez, their dog
River and Dottie the Cat.
Learn more at karenauvinen.
com. Follow her on Twitter
@karenjamestown or Insta-
gram @awomansplaceisin-
thewild and on Facebook:
KarenAuvinenAuthor.
Cost for the workshop is
$270 or $243 for Fishtrap-
pers. Register at fi shtrap.org.
Concluding the spring
series will be Mining Your
Life for Laughter: An Online
Workshop With Bob Balmer
from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on
Saturday, May 8.
Balmer invites partici-
pants to join examining how
humor writers have taken
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absurd, the odd, the embar-
rassing, the memorable into
humor. Participants will look
at what makes people laugh
and the fact that what is funny
is subjective. The work-
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ways writers convey humor,
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tifi cation, embarrassment,
self-deprecation and through
short writing exercises, prac-
tice using them. The work-
shop will look at structure
as a means to convey humor,
through essay, tale or story.
Then, to follow James Thurb-
er’s adage: “Humor is chaos
remembered in tranquility,”
participants will sift through
their lives to fi nd our truth in
stories, anecdotes and inci-
dents gilded with humor.
Balmer’s fi rst humorous
essay was published in The
Oregonian in 1992. His work
has appeared in The Smithso-
nian, The Oregonian, The
Seattle Times, The Seat-
tle Weekly, Golf Illustrated,
ZYZZYVA, Oregon Coast
Magazine, Golf Weekly, The
Eugene Weekly and Willa-
mette Week. It has aired on
the radio shows The Savvy
Traveler and MarketPlace
as well as on Oregon Public
Radio and Television. He has
an MFA in creative writing
from Portland State Univer-
sity, and he attended the Iowa
Summer Writing Workshop
and the Tin House Summer
Writing Workshop at Reed
College. In 2017, he took
Improv and sketch writing
classes at Second City Com-
edy in Chicago. He has led
humor writing workshops
at the BARN (Bainbridge
Artisan Resource Network)
Write in the Harbor, Portland
Storytellers Guild, The Ore-
gon Writers Colony, Sitka
Center for the Arts and Ecol-
ogy, The Write on the Sound
Writers Conference, The
Hoff man Center for the Arts,
Mary’s Woods Retirement
Center, The Oregon Council
Teachers of English student
writing Festival. He gleans
much of his humor-writing
material from his and others
everyday experiences and
observations.
Registration costs $120 or
$110 for Fishtrappers. Regis-
ter at fi shtrap.org.
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