Dear Creatives,
Thank you for being 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, February 12th!
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 February 2.
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 February 6th.
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!
Happy writing,
Karen Terrey
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