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Oregon Book Awards Author Tour: Enterprise
Fri, Oct 21, 2022 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
107 W. Main Street
Enterprise,
OR
Literary Arts and Fishtrap are pleased to announce that the Oregon Book Award Author Tour will travel to Wallowa County on Friday, October 21 at 7:00pm as part of Fishtrap’s season of readings in their new event space at 107 W. Main Street in Enterprise.
The event will feature Oregon Book Awards authors Vanessa Veselka and Mark Savage in reading and conversation.
The Oregon Book Awards Author Tour brings finalists to public libraries, community arts
centers, and independent bookstores around the state for readings, workshops and school visits.
Mark Savage
Mark Savage is an author and musician from Portsmouth, England. He lives in Portland, where he is a bookseller and co-host of the Mind-Meld. Fictional Film Club is his first novel.
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Vanessa Veselka
Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and The Great Offshore Grounds. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA, and her nonfiction in GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Atavist, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train hopper, a waitress, and a mother. She lives in Portland, OR. Her latest novel, The Great Offshore Grounds, was the 2021 winner of the Ken Kesey Award for fiction and was long-listed for the National Book Award.
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