Idaho Arts Commission sponsors writing workshop and public reading by author

January 11, 2016

Author Renee D’Aoust will treat the community to readings of her work at Bonners Books in Bonners Ferry on Friday, January 15 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Renée E. D’Aoust is the author of Body of a Dancer (Etruscan Press), a Foreword Reviews "Book of the Year" finalist. She has received grants from the Idaho Arts Commission and the Puffin Foundation, three Pushcart nominations, and six “Notable” mentions in Best American Essays. Forthcoming and recent publications include Brevity, Essay Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ragazine, Rain Taxi, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Trestle Creek Review. To see the official poster announcing this literary reading event, click here. D’Aoust lives in southern Switzerland and northern Idaho, and she teaches online at North Idaho College and Casper College. She is an Associated Writers Program “Writer to Writer” mentor and the Managing Editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. You can follow her at @idahobuzzy or see www.reneedaoust.com. The reading will follow a day long workshop with the “Write Stuff,” an informal group of local writers who meet the first and third Friday in the basement of Trinity Lutheran Church. The workshop and reading is sponsored by the Idaho Arts Commission Tumble Words program and the Boundary County Library. The program is free and open to the public. For more information call Norm Braatz at 208-267-3221