Free writing workshop for veterans in South Lake Tahoe

The El Dorado Arts Council is expanding their Veterans’ Voices Writing Workshop to South Lake Tahoe beginning Oct. 1. The free, drop-in workshop is open to all veterans and all skill levels are encouraged. The workshops will be held on Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Community College, Room A206, near the LTCC Veterans Resource Center.

The Veterans’ Voice Writing Workshop began in 2014 in Placerville as an ongoing writing workshop open to all veterans in El Dorado County. The workshop offers a supportive environment and the tools needed to write fiction and nonfiction, service related or not, as well as poetry and drama. The programs are funded, in part, by a grant from the California Arts Council’s Veterans in the Arts initiative. An increase in support has enabled El Dorado Arts Council to expand this important program to South Lake Tahoe.

Facilitating the workshop is Kim Wyatt, a South Lake Tahoe writer and founder of the local press Bona Fide Books. Wyatt brings two decades of teaching and publishing experience to the group. “I’m excited to be a part of the workshop expansion to South Lake Tahoe. I know our veterans have stories to tell, and I’m looking forward to helping them find a way to tell them.”

Lake Tahoe Community College is at One College Drive in South Lake Tahoe.

For more information, go to https://eldoradoartscouncil.org/veterans-voices/