Wenatchee Times

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Date: September 18

Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Cost: Free – $10

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Venue

    Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center

    127 South Mission Street

    Wenatchee, WA United States 

Navigating Untold Stories: A Historical Fiction Workshop with Zach Eddy

What did David Thompson think to himself as he navigated the  pre-dammed Columbia, floating for the first time into what is now  present-day Wenatchee? What did the tense

conversations look and sound  like, as the passenger train moved in and out of the smoke-filled  Wellington tunnel, and some decided to hike out in waist-deep snow  before the

deadly avalanche fell? Explore local history at the Museum  and learn new techniques to help guide you to a place of discovery,  while you navigate the blurry line between fiction

and non-fiction.  Discover what stories hide in the gaps of the historical record. What  dark truths remain uncovered? Explore who gets to tell the stories and  why they matter today.

This is a two-hour generative workshop focused on all steps of the  writing process. Come prepared to go where our local history leads you,  and be prepared to write and share.

We will look at specific examples of  historical fiction to learn from and discuss the genre in context with  others. All genres, age 15+, all writing backgrounds welcome.

This is a free program for members, non-members pay $10.  Registration is required and space is limited.

Click here to register.

Zach Eddy is a former aluminum worker and has lived and worked  throughout the Pacific Northwest. He received his MFA in Poetry from the  University of Idaho in 2021. His work

has been published or is  forthcoming in High Desert Journal, The Comet Magazine, Terrain.org, Northwest Review, Shrub-Steppe, The Confluence, Poetry Northwest, and

Spokane Public Radio’s A Poetry Moment, among others. His poem “Before the Closure, Before I Quit” was  nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net anthology, and his poem “Fish

Eyes” won the 2016 Wenatchee Valley College Earth Day Poetry Prize. He  teaches English composition at Wenatchee Valley College and is an  operations coordinator for the

Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural  Center.

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