Personal Hauntings

 Please join us this Halloween season for a closer look at the ghosts of our own enigmatic stories. Many of us ruminate over incidents, encounters, relationships, regrets, and puzzlements that beg to be reconciled. In this workshop we give time, space, and peer support for deepening our understanding of, and perhaps making peace with, these persistent past experiences through writing about them. Instructor Amy Minato provides the supportive environment and provocative prompts. You provide the material and courage to examine your ghosts. All levels and genres welcome.  

Amy Minato is author of a memoir Siesta Lane, (Skyhorse Press, 2009) and two poetry collections: Hermit Thrush, (Inkwater Press, 2016) and The Wider Lens, (Ice River Press, 2004). Amy has been a recipient of both a Literary Arts Fellowship for her poetry and a Walden Residency for her prose. She teaches writing through Literary Arts, Multnomah Art Center, Fishtrap and at Breitenbush Retreat Center. Amy holds both an MFA in Creative Writing and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon. She teaches sustainable living education at Portland State University and lives with her husband and two children in Portland, Oregon. In summers they migrate to their old haunts in the Wallowa Mountains of Eastern Oregon to skip rocks on the lake, float innertubes down the creek behind their house and sleep beneath skies crazy with stars.

Is the registration fee an obstacle for you to attend this workshop? Fishtrap offers a limited number of scholarships to help with the cost. Contact Program Director Mike Midlo for more information. [mike@fishtrap.org]