Bona Fide Events

 

February 16, 6:30 PM, Fantasy Writers Social, HQ

Calling all fantasy writers! Bona Fide Books is hosting Lake Tahoe's first local fantasy writers social Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30 PM at Bona Fide HQ. Writers of all ages and all levels of experience are welcome. Discuss your latest work or ideas for new projects with others who work in your genre. Refreshments will be provided.

 

Local Happenings

 

February 9, 7 PM, Li Miao Lovett, LTCC

Lake Tahoe Community College's Writers' Series is hosting Li Miao Lovett for a book reading and signing in the Aspen Room on the LTCC campus. Stop by to support this San Francisco-based author, bring questions for the Q & A, and buy a book to get signed.

 

 

Sneak Peek at 2012

Mark your calendar now for these classes, readings, and more coming to Bona Fide in 2012.

February

• Featured artist: Kit Night
  "New Work, Old Friends, Live Jazz" - artist reception, Feb. 4, 5:30 - 7:30
  Kit Night is an oil painter living in South Lake Tahoe, and she is also the creator of "Art in the Morning," a weekly artistic boost that lifts the spirits and brings art into our every day lives. She is also a teacher, walker and jazz lover.

• Featured writer: Li Miao Lovett
  Reading at LTCC Feb. 9, 7 PM
  Li Miao Lovett is a writer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first novel, In the Lap of the Gods (Leapfrog Press, Sept. 2010), is a tale of love and loss set amidst the rising waters of China's Three Gorges dam. Her passion for the environment is inspired by travels ranging from the mountains of Nepal to the deserts of the American West. In 2001, she spent a season backpacking 600 miles along the Appalachian Trail. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, Sierra Club Planet, China Rights Forum, Planet's Voice news service, and KQED public radio.
• Fantasy Writers Social
  Calling all fantasy writers! Bona Fide Books is hosting Lake Tahoe's first local fantasy writers social Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30 PM at Bona Fide HQ. Writers of all ages and all levels of experience are welcome. Discuss your latest work or ideas for new projects with others who work in your genre. Refreshments will be provided.
  
  For more information, contact Kim at editor@bonafidebooks.com or call Bona Fide Books at 530-573-1513.

 

March

• Class: So You Want to Write and/or Illustrate a Children's Book. Now What? with Kristen Schwartz
  Longtime Tahoe resident Kristen Schwartz has been illustrating and designing professionally for over 25 years. In 2009, she was chosen by the Nevada Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) to work with award-winning children’s book author/illustrator Yuyi Morales in their Mentor Program. She worked closely with Ms. Morales writing, editing, and illustrating a picture book that was well received by the Simon and Schuster art director and editor participating in the program. She has written two other picture books and written and illustrated three middle grade novels, as well as being a 2011 recipient of an SCBWI Conference Grant based on her children’s illustrations.

• Class: Intro to Letterpress Workshop with Michelle Murdock, Quail Lane Press
  
• National Small Press Month

 

April

• Poetry Slams at SNC, LTCC
• Poetry Bomb
• Featured artist: Benjamin Arnold
  Benjamin Arnold is a teacher, poet, writer, and artist living in Reno, Nevada. His current visual work is created by capturing images and editing them entirely with his iPhone. He admits that he creates some images while in meetings, during lunch, and while waiting in lines.
  By snapping photos while engaged in life, then manipulating those photos with apps during “down” moments, Arnold exemplifies the notion that art is not separate from life. He’s also putting his spin on “broadsides.” As Arnold puts it, “I just realized one day that my poetry and visual art wanted to play together.”

May

• Class: How to Create Best-Selling Book Ideas with Jennifer Basye Sander
• Featured artist: Stacy Hicks

June

• Tahoe Blues reading at LTCC
• Class: Introduction to E-Book Publishing

 

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

Do you like to write or wish you wrote more regularly? The Tangled Roots Monday Night Writing Workshops is a fun kick in the butt to revitalize your creative juices! Learn writing techniques and tips. Meet other writers and strengthen your writing practice. Play with language and meaning in longer writing prompts. You can use the workshops to develop new material or to deepen your writing on a current writing project. Each workshop is different and involves much writing.

Open to any level of experience, this committed group meet Monday nights from 6:30 to 8:00 PM in downtown Truckee. Next session starts 1/9 - 2/27 (no classes on 1/16 and 2/20). The cost for six weeks is $100. For more information, contact Karen Terrey at tangledrootswriting@gmail.com or call (530) 386-3901.

 

Tangled Roots Writing also offers weekend workshops. The newest workshop is titled "I Have a First Draft: Shaping and Revision." A small dedicated group will meet once a month for three months to further develop a rough draft into a more refined structure. A large part of the workshop will focus on progressive feedback on writing in process and will consider craft and revision. Come to enjoy a supportive creative environment and refine your latest project. Workshop will meet 1/22, 2/5, and 3/11 from 10 am - 1:30 pm, and costs $135.

 

 

El Dorado Hills

The third Wednesday of every month, Our House Gallery hosts a poetry performance night at their store in El Dorado Hills. Poetry Night is free to readers and listeners, and readings begin at 7pm. It is requested that readers sign up by 7pm to read that night. For more information about other local events in the Placerville area, visit the El Dorado Arts Council website.

 

Placerville

The Red Fox Poets gather every other month at the EDAC ArtSpace for a poetry reading. The next reading is December 2, 7-8 pm. Come down for a reading and check out the latest and greatest at ArtSpace!

 

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)