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This week I started an email discussion amongst a handful of Pacific University MFA alumns. The question posed was this: What successful classroom activities have you used to help make revision [...]

It seems appropriate to begin my explorations of Enterprise with what was here before. That is, before the Court House was built and before the Wallowa Chieftan set up shop and before—as I’ve [...]

First things first, what is a fishtrap, anyway? We can thank Rich Wandschneider in Wallowa County: People, Places, Images for the following explanation: “To the Nez Perce people who lived here, a [...]

After almost three weeks at Wallowa Lake in Joseph, yesterday I moved 8 miles down the valley to Enterprise (population 2,000…the biggest town in a hour’s drive or so). Fishtrap headquarters are [...]

I’m beat tonight…long story. For now, please accept the following: Public Reading by Katey Schultz @ Fishtrap Coffin House This Sunday, February 6 @ 1pm in Enterprise, Oregon (Come [...]

Good news, folks: The new issue of Calyx hit the stands this week and it includes my short story, “My Father Calls me Pequeña.” This Oregon-based, nationally known publication has been around for [...]

Yesterday’s post was epic. Today’s will be photographic. Sunrise over the east moraine: Then, for three straight days the moraine, lake, and lower fields were shrouded in constant fog. Not once [...]

[This is a really, really long post. Click “Read More” if you want to read more than what’s visible on this screen…and especially if you want to hear about the ghost heard of elk, whose mystery [...]

Back at Joseph High School this morning, I was pleased to see that 1 more student joined my optional fiction-writing workshop, so that brings us up to four. I am so comfortable with this age [...]

Last night I asked around at Lear’s pub in Enterprise about the ghost herd of elk. Today I asked the Joseph librarian. I can’t get consensus on whether or not the story is a “white man’s story” [...]