It was an exciting day on Barton Heights yesterday as We-3 welcomed our friend and teacher Katey Schultz, author of "Flashes of War"...After an absence of 3 years she was back in Wallowa County on tour, giving readings and signing her newly published book...Over lunch we toasted our friendship and wished Katey luck in this roller-coaster journey promoting her book...We spent the afternoon catching up on each others lives, then met up again at the BookLoft where a standing room only crowd listened in awe as she read from her book...Katey leaves Wallowa County this morning going back to Portland for more readings and a trip to California where relatives have invited her to come and read for an audience there...A trip to New York is also on her agenda.
We first met Katey when she came to the county as a "Writer in Residence", over three years ago, for the county schools and also gave a memoir class through Fishtrap to adults of the community...When the class ended 3 of us accepted her offer of "online" classes where for 6 months we would write and send 15 pages a month to her for a line by line critique and a letter with suggestions for improvements for our essays...She always sent advice and encouragement to us the budding writers...We are all still writing, some much more than others and all have visions of "our book" some day...It has been an interesting journey as our writing skills improve and our We-3 friendship continues to grow....Hugs To All...OWAV:)
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