ENTERPRISE — Fishtrap Fireside will celebrate Women’s History Month with a special reading featuring three local voices: Beth Estock, Kathy Hunter and Nodya Papineau.

The event is Friday, March 3, starting at 7 p.m. at Fishtrap, 107 W. Main St. Admission is free.

Those who can’t attend in person can watch live on Fishtrap’s Facebook page, or watch afterward on Fishtrap’s YouTube channel.

“Every year, Fishtrap Fireside takes special care to highlight women writers in March as part of Women’s History Month,” said Mike Midlo, program director. “Beth, Kathy and Nodya represent different life experiences, style and points of view. I think people will get a lot out of this event.”

The March Fishtrap Fireside event is sponsored by Moonshine Glass Art and B. Bright Vintage.

Beth Estock

Estock says she has a love-hate relationship with the church. A progeny of a Catholic and Protestant marriage, she spent her over-churched childhood on the shores of Lake Erie. When she professed her allegiance to Methodism her Catholic grandmother told her she was going to hell. Being inquisitive, Beth took some theology classes in college to find out if her grandmother was right.

That and her love of church camps compelled her to go to seminary at Emory University.

She pastored churches in Georgia and Oregon until she got a metaphysical kick in the pants to quit. She came into her fullness as a master leadership coach and yoga instructor. She has written two books and is the pastor of Joseph United Methodist. Learn more at bethestock.com.

Kathy Hunter

After a journalistic career in Alaska, Hunter arrived in Wallowa to perform as a storyteller and musician, to write and record for children and to partner with Fishtrap in a radio show called Fishtrap Storytime.

Changing focus during the pandemic, she now spends her time producing children’s books of the favorites from her four CDs and in sculpting critters of clay that have their own stories, too.

Nodya Papineau

Papineau is a 23-year-old Wallowa County poet. She lives in Lostine with her partner, Franklin, her 3-year-old daughter, Clover, and her pet cat, Beelz. She is a paraeducator at Wallowa Middle School and facilitates a weekly afterschool writing program for Wallowa middle and high school students.

She works as a housekeeper for Fishtrap and Enterprise Auto on the weekends, and studies English and Sociology online full-time at Eastern Oregon University.

She will be graduating with her bachelor’s in English in June and plans to pursue her master of arts in teaching in the coming years to become a middle/high school English teacher.