Looking forward to 2026: Tangled Roots Open Mic, new workshops, and opportunities for Teens in Truckee

 

Thank you for being a part of the Tangled Roots Writing community. I truly appreciate you and how you pay attention to your creative process. I feel joy in being a part of that creative work. I find a sense of fulfillment in the community we make together.

My newest venture as Poet Laureate of Nevada County is hosting the Tangled Roots Open Mic at Alibi in Truckee every second Thursday of the month from 6 - 7:30 pm. I'm so excited to be able to offer a venue that welcomes all ages for poets and writers to share their poetry and prose on stage with a supportive audience. Read your work out loud, perform your words for others, speak your voice, and make a difference. Join us Thursday, December 11^th!

This year I facilitated five sessions of the Monday Night Creative Writing Workshop 6 week series. Every Monday night I create a new workshop for us to explore craft and generate new material. Because this workshop is all about you, the prompts lead to any genre and support whatever writing project you may be in the middle of developing. Now is the time to sign up for the next series in 2026 beginning January 26.

This Fall a group of dedicated writers completed a three-part workshop series on Submission Strategies for poetry, short story, fiction and creative non-fiction. It was a blast meeting every two weeks to talk through organizing systems and preparing manuscripts and researching just the right venues for submitting our work. The best part is that through this community, writers are sending work out for publication who have never sent their work out into the world before. Because this business side of being an artist is the kind of work artists prefer to avoid, I'll be offering this Submissions Strategies workshop series again this Spring to help you stay accountable and productive.

Some of you may not know that I also offer a free monthly Creative Writing Workshop at the Truckee Library called Moments for Memoirs on Friday mornings from 10:30-noon. This workshop is open to all ages and all levels of experience. And the group is so welcoming - join us! Our next workshop at the Library is December 12^th.

As Poet Laureate of Nevada County, I've been busy reaching out to the community, and specifically Teens in Truckee. The Poetry and Prose Writing Club at Truckee High is representing at the Alibi open mic! We also meet once a month on a Sunday afternoon at the Lift for a writing workshop. This free workshop is open to all Teens in Truckee, so if you’re interested, reach out!

This winter I’m gathering a circle of writers that are ready for feedback in a guided monthly workshop. We’ll share and receive feedback in a small group on fiction and non-fiction, with the goal of revising the stories, essays or book-length projects for publication. Are you ready to take the next step in developing your book project or your collection of essays? Reach out and let’s talk.

As always I’m available for one-on-one editing and manuscript review projects.

I hope to see you out and about in our literary community!