ENTERPRISE — November’s Fishtrap Fireside features three local Wallowa County writers and storytellers: Kendrick Moholt, Jennifer Piper and Adele Schott.

The evening event is Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. at Fishtrap, 107 W. Main St. Admission is free, although donations are welcome. Light snacks are provided and drinks are available for purchase.

Those unable to attend in person can tune in live at fishtrap.org or Fishtrap’s YouTube channel.

Fishtrap Fireside is a monthly reading series designed to celebrate diverse voices from local writers and storytellers. Since the program launched in 2013, more than 150 Wallowa County writers have stepped up to the podium or logged on virtually to share their work. Audiences have enjoyed a variety of storytelling including poems, fiction, history, humor, memoir, sci-fi fantasy, essay, travelog, food stories, comedy and more.

An intermission follows the featured readings, followed by an open mic session. Five open mic spots are available, and writers of all ages and experience are encouraged to sign up beginning at 6:30 p.m.

November’s Fishtrap Fireside is sponsored by The Kokanee Inn.

Featured readers

Kendrick Moholt spent much of his youth at a remote natural history field station far from paved roads where he spent time roaming the sagebrush and rimrock canyon. Each day he worked long hours, swam the John Day River, and ate meals in the dining hall. Every evening the old-timers entertained the youth with wild stories — the ancient oral tradition that has defined humans for hundreds of thousands of years. As a young man, he spent warm months of the year in the woods living in camps with no facilities more advanced than a truck, a cooler and a campfire. Decades pass, and out of habit he still practices the tradition of storytelling even when confronted with strange social situations like cocktail parties.

Jennifer Piper hails from Wallowa County and spent most of her young adult years on the west side of the state. After returning home, she has taken full advantage of her inclinations as an avid outdoorsman and can be found hiking and climbing mountains at every opportunity. When not in motion, Jennifer has been scribbling stories for as long as she can remember and she refers to much of her work as “Probably Bad Poetry.” These days, her writing frequently takes on more challenging themes, as she considers the intersections of wealth, class, privilege, and power — and how these forces shape our understanding of opportunities and the spaces we occupy.

Adele Schott is a fifth-generation rancher, a mother, a cooker and a writer. Her writing has been shaped by the storytellers she grew up with, cowboys with their stories around campfires, and artists in kitchens with their recipes and wit. For Adele, it is all about what you leave behind, and she would like to leave behind a good piece of land, confidently loved children, the perfect beef stew recipe, and a pile of honest stories.