nonfiction
Free writing workshop for veterans in South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Fri, 09/07/2018 - 8:05am
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.
Author Sue Owens Wright at the SLT Library
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 6:17am
Event Date:
May 5, 2018 - 12:01pm Join the Friends as we share a delightful afternoon with Sacramento author, Sue Owens Wright, as she presents the 5th book in popular Beanie and Cruiser Mystery Series, "Ears for Murder". Ms Wright is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and has earned special recognition from the Humane Society of the United States for her writing. Her books feature Native American Beanie MacBean and her lovable basset hound, Cruiser. Free and open to all.
Location
South Lake Tahoe Library
1000 Rufus Allen Blvd
South Lake Tahoe, CA
United States
38° 56' 43.5228" N, 119° 58' 22.2276" W
See map: Google Maps
Author Sue Owens Wright returns
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 6:00pm
Event Date:
May 5, 2018 - 12:00pm Join the Friends as we share a delightful morning with Sacramento author, Sue Owens Wright, as she presents the 5th book in popular Beanie and Cruiser Mystery Series, "Ears for Murder". Ms Wright is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and has earned special recognition from the Humane Society of the United States for her writing. Her books feature Native American Beanie MacBean and her lovable basset hound, Cruiser.
Free and open to all.
Location
South Lake Tahoe Library
1000 Rufus Allen Blvd
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
United States
38° 56' 43.5228" N, 119° 58' 22.2276" W
See map: Google Maps
LTCC Writer's Series welcomes humorist Michael Branch
Submitted by paula on Sun, 10/09/2016 - 6:46pm
Event Date:
October 20, 2016 - 8:00pm
For more than a decade, Branch has been writing about life in Nevada’s Great Basin Desert with an audacity, lyricism, and wit that is uniquely his own, and on Thursday, October 20, he brings that humor to Lake Tahoe Community College at 8:00 p.m.
The LTCC Writers' Series event with Branch will be held in LTCC’s Roberta Mason Library. This event is free and open to students and the community.
County Arts Council Adds Lake Tahoe Board Member
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/13/2014 - 4:57pmPLACERVILLE, CA - El Dorado Arts Council (EDAC) announced today that Kim Wyatt, publisher of Bona Fide Books, was appointed to the nonprofit arts organization’s board of directors.
“We are excited to have Kim Wyatt join our board as EDAC prepares to launch exciting initiatives in 2014,” says Dan Cattone, EDAC board president. “The support and nurturing of the South Lake Tahoe art community is critical to our mission of ‘More Art in More Places.’ Kim will help us energize that effort and insure that EDAC brings relevant support and value to the South Lake Tahoe art community.”
Kokanee Literary Journal Seeking Submissions
Submitted by Editor on Sun, 05/26/2013 - 11:15pm
Lake Tahoe Community College is seeking submissions for the 25th annual edition of The Kokanee. Submissions of up to five poems or 10 pages (2,500 words) of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction/memoir) are being accepted until June 21 at kokanee@ltcc.edu.
Submissions should be attached as a Microsoft Word document, and “Kokanee Submission” should be in the subject
line. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines will not be considered.
High school writing winners selected by Sierra Nevada College Winners to read alongside award-winning poets, novelists
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 11:52am
Event Date:
January 11, 2013 - 7:00pm Sierra Nevada College professors and editors evaluated over 500 submissions to choose the top winners for the 2012 High School Writing Contest, a national competition that produced exceptional stories, poems and creative nonfiction from high school juniors and seniors.
“The level of talent was extraordinary, making it tough for the judges,” said June Saraceno, English Department chair at Sierra Nevada College, a four-year private college in Incline Village, Nev.
Location
Sierra Nevada College
999 Tahoe Blvd.
Incline Village, Nev
United States
39° 14' 41.9856" N, 119° 56' 16.9692" W
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Writers Returns to Squaw Valley with a Great Line-Up of Literary Events
Submitted by Editor on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:06pmEvent Date:
July 8, 2012 (All day)
Every summer writers of all stripes — poets, novelists, screenwriters and writers of memoirs, histories, essays and short stories — descend on Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe for a week of intensive literary activity. The valley buzzes with metaphors flying and manuscripts flapping, as over 250 writers, editors and publishers convene in two separate week-long workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir and screenwriting.
Squaw Valley Hosts an Extraordinary Evening of Poetry
Submitted by Editor on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 1:37pmThe 43rd annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with acclaimed workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Screenwriting. As part of the workshop, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers will be hosting an extraordinary evening of poetry readings on Thursday, June 28, at 8 p.m. in The Olympic Village Lodge at Squaw Valley.
As part of the evening of poetry, Kazim Ali, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, Claudia Rankine and C.D. Wright will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written in Squaw Valley just days before.
'Tahoe Blues' Book Launch at LTCC June 8
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 9:39am
Event Date:
June 8, 2012 - 7:00pm On Fri. June 8, Bona Fide Books will host a book launch and reading for “Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake” at Lake Tahoe Community College, 7:00 p.m. The event is part of the LTCC Writers’ Series and is free and open to the public.
Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 2:03pm
"Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe" by David C. Antonucci describes the famed American literary master's experiences and travels to our shores. Fairest Picture is the first and only book to describe Lake Tahoe as it was in Mark Twain’s time and reveal in detail the locations where he traveled, camped and stayed at 19th century hotels.
