Sponsored by Trails & Vistas at Church of the Mountains, 10079 Church St, Truckee, the event welcomes all teens to a day of generative writing, feedback, and revision techniques in a supportive and welcoming community. Workshop leaders Journalist/Poet/Photographer Petra Molina and Nevada County Poet Laureate Karen Terrey bring a depth of experience in creative writing and teaching. For more information and to register for this free workshop, see the evite https://evite.me/523DmXEgnN. For more info you Karen Terrey at 530-386-3901.
The day’s schedule includes time for writing, sharing, and connecting with fellow teens and writers:
Generative Workshop with Petra Molina 10 - 11:30
Sneak Peak at Revision with Karen Terrey 11:30 - 12
Lunch and writing 12 - 1:30
Revision workshop with Karen Terrey 1:30 - 3:30
Trails & Vistas strengthens community with collaborating partners of artists, poets, conservationists, educators, writers, art and environmental nonprofits. They build a thriving rural culture that inspires arts activity, provides economic activity with geotourism, builds pride of place, and inspires environmental awareness. Founded in 2004, Trails & Vistas has grown to offer Art Hikes, Art in Nature Field Trips, Awe Walks, and community art/dance workshops in Spanish and English.
Petra Molina is a Peruvian-American journalist, writer, photographer, and poet. She grew up in Cusco, Peru, a small city nestled in the Andes Mountains, where her connection to storytelling and the outdoors began. After earning her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she moved to Lake Tahoe to focus on covering the subjects she loves the most: nature, sports, and adventure. She is the recipient of Nevada Press Foundation’s 2024 Best Collegiate Feature Writing for her reporting on sexual harassment faced by Las Vegas showgirls, and a two-time recipient of the Greenspun College’s Hank Covell Award for journalistic excellence. Her work has appeared in the Sierra Sun, Tahoe Daily Tribune, Tahoe Magazine, Desert Companion, and KNPR.
Karen Terrey serves as the Poet Laureate for Nevada County. She's a writer, editor, and writing coach, offering writing services, developmental editing, publishing guidance, and creative writing workshops in Truckee through her business Tangled Roots Writing for clients of all ages. An alumni of Community of Writers, she teaches at Sierra College and has served as a poetry editor for the literary journals Pitkin Review and Quay. Her award-winning poems have appeared in anthologies and literary journals such as Rhino, Meadow, River Heron Review, Puerto Del Sol, Wicked Alice, Canary, and Gray Sparrow Journal, among others. Her poetry chapbook Bite and Blood is available from Finishing Line Press and local bookstores, including Word After Word in Truckee, CA.
