Tahoe writers celebrate with night of words

Tahoe Writers Works is hosting the second annual Celebration of Writers Around the Lake on Sept. 17.

It’s an evening of lit at the lake with 12 writers who call Tahoe home or are inspired by Tahoe. The event is at Valhalla in the Grand Hall at 7pm. The $10 admission includes a wine reception followed by a reading and book signing. Books will be available for purchase.

Featured writers include:

• Jeremy Evans, nonfiction, “In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum”

• Scott Lankford, nonfiction, “Tahoe Beneath the Surface”

• Ann Ronald, fiction, “Friendly Fallout 1953”

• Janet Smith, poet, “All of a Sudden Nothing Happened”

• Michael J. Makley, nonfiction, “Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place”

• Suzanne Roberts, poet, “Shameless, Nothing to You”

• Gailmarie Pahmeier, poet, “New Poets of the American West”

• Karen Terrey, “Tangled Roots Writing”

• Jeanine Stevens, poet, “Caught in the Clouds”

• June Saraceno, poet, “Altars of Ordinary Light”

• Krista Benjamin, poet, “New Poets of the American West”

• Scott Lukas, nonfiction, “Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade”

Tahoe Writers Works, formerly the Lake Tahoe Writing Club, is a nonprofit organization based in South Lake Tahoe. Each year, the group organizes events to create a stronger literary and arts community in Lake Tahoe, including Bare Bones Open Mic, Murder Mystery Theater, and the Captain Thunder Old Time Radio Play at Valhalla. The group also publishes the literary journal “EDGE”. For more information, click here.

For general information about the group, contact founder and director Andrea Wexelblatt at (530) 416-.2666, or avantgardencollegestore@yahoo.com.