Bona Fide Events

June

Featured Artist: Bonita Paulis
Reception June 1, 6-8 pm

Please join us at HQ for a reception for award-winning pastel artist Bonita Paulis and her exhibit, Wild Western Landscapes.

  

 

Tahoe Blues Readings

Book launch! Join Bona Fide and LTCC in celebrating the release of the latest Bona Fide book, Tahoe Blues. Our writers will dive into their tales—tall and true alike—from our favorite alpine lake for the LTCC Writers Series. Be sure to get your copy signed by the readers!

-June 8, 7 pm: Tahoe Blues book launch, Lake Tahoe Community College

-June 20, 6:30 pm: Sundance Books, Reno

-July 2, 3 pm: Explore Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe/Stateline, NV

-July 28, 7 pm: EDAC ArtSpace, Placerville

-September 7, 7 pm: Sierra Nevada College Literary Lollapalooza

-September 14, 7 pm: Celebration of Writers, Valhalla

 

Lit Around the Lake

South Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Writers Works is in session. Workshops are held once a month; check our calendar and submit work the week before. You can also just drop in for writerly camaraderie. Meetings start at 6:30 pm, see website for directions. www.tahoewritersworks.com

Truckee

Tangled Roots Writing

For information on writing workshops and classes in Truckee, check out Karen Terrey's Tangled Root Writing.

Bona Fide in the Press

• Permanent Vacation reviewed in High Country News.
• Lake Tahoe News reviews Permanent Vacation.
• Permanent Vacation book launch and reading at LTCC.
• Interview with publisher Kim Wyatt at 49 Writers.
• Bona Fide profile at Moonshine Ink.
• National Poetry Month poetry bomb.
• Jason Schossler wins the first Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize.
  

 

Previous Events

September 18 at 7 PM

Celebration of Writers around the Lake

The first "Celebration of Writers Around the Lake" was a great success. Thank you to everyone who helped, especially all of the writers. You were excellent!

Check out photography of the event at flickr.com/photos/tahoewritersworks.

Read more about the event at Tahoe Arts and Mountain Culture.

Read a review of the event at Lake Tahoe News.

Join Tahoe Writers Works for a Celebration of Writers around the Lake at the Valhalla Grand Hall, South Lake Tahoe, CA. $10, includes a wine reception and reading by writers who call the lake home and who are inspired by the lake, including:

• Todd Borg (author of Owen McKenna mystery series; toddborg.com)
• Ellen Hopkins (author of Crank, Glass, and forthcoming Tricks, ellenhopkins.com)
• Karen Terrey (poet karenaterrey.blogspot.com)
• Michael J. Makley (author of John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age and The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West)
• Gailmarie Pahmeier (poet, The House on Breakaheart Road)
• Suzanne Roberts (poet and essayist, Shameless, Nothing to You, Plotting Temporality, suzanneroberts.org)
• June Saraceno (poet, Altars of Ordinary Light, junesaraceno.com)
• Jennifer Woodlief (author of Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche, awallofwhite.com)