​The Lake County Library Endowment Fund will host OSU professor and dean emeritus Sam Stern as speaker for the 2019 Library Endowment Dinner. Stern will talk about his research into the Daly Fund. The dinner will be held at 6:30 PM on Saturday, October 19, 2019, at the Elks Lodge. Friends of the Lake County Library will hold a no-host reception fundraiser at the new Main Library from 5 to 6 PM. 

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Stern served on the OSU faculty of education 35 years and, between 2002 and 2011, served as dean of the College of Education. Since he first learned about the Daly Fund, Stern has been fascinated by the remarkable impact that it’s had and what can be learned from its almost hundred year history. In retirement he has been studying the impact of the Fund and is now writing a book about Bernard Daly, the scholarship, and its impact. You can learn more about Sam’s research on the Daly Fund at his blog: http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/lakeview/.
 
This year’s fundraising items include framed photos, wine basket, tea basket, book collections, and more. Regular raffle tickets are $1 each, six tickets for $5, or arms’ length for $20. All raffle tickets sales begin on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 in the Main Library. You need not be present at the dinner to win raffle items.
 
Tickets to the dinner are $30 and may be purchased or reserved before October 13, 2019, at the Main Library in Lakeview or by calling 541-947-6019. No ticket or reservation is required for the no-host reception at the Main Library, which is free and open to all. Questions about the event may be directed to Amy Hutchinson, Lake County Library Director, at 541-947-6019. 

​Calling all fiction writers and aspiring writers! Oregon author and teacher John Larison will be offering a free, two-hour fiction writing workshop on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 10:00 AM in the meeting room of the Main Library in Lakeview. The workshop focuses on starting a story and building characters and includes writing prompts, helpful feed-back, and answers to your questions about writing fiction.

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​John Larison was born in 1979 in Philomath, Oregon.  The son of National Geographic filmmakers, much of his childhood was spent traveling, often staying in remote tropical or mountainous regions. He attended the University of Oregon and studied philosophy and literature, and stayed to earn a Master’s of Education. For several years, he worked as a fly-fishing guide and high school English teacher, writing fiction in the evenings.  In 2005, he left both jobs to earn a MFA at Oregon State University.
 
Since then, Larison has worked as a freelance writer for outdoor magazines, an adjunct writing instructor, and a fly-fishing guide. He was always writing fiction. His first book was a how-to text on fly-fishing, The Complete Steelheader (Stackpole 2008). He went on to publish two fishing related novels Northwest of Normal (Barclay Creek 2009) and Holding Lies (Skyhorse 2011).
 
This free public program is most suitable for adults and high school students and is made possible by Oregon’s Literary Arts, a community-based nonprofit with a mission to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. For more information about this program, please contact Library Director Amy Hutchinson at amyh@lakecountylibrary.org or 541-947-6019. For more information about Literary Arts, connect online at literary-arts.org or contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org or 503-227-2583. 

​Spend some time with Oregon’s best authors hosted by your local library and Literary Arts. Nick Dybek, John Larison, and Emily Whitman, will all read from, speak about, and sign their novels recently honored by Literary Art’s Oregon Book Awards. The author tour will be in Christmas Valley on Thursday, October 3, 2019, at 6:30 PM at the Boosters Hall; in Paisley on Friday, October 4, 2019, at 11:00 AM at the Community Hall; and in Lakeview on Friday, October 4, 2019, at 6:30 PM in the Main Library Meeting Room. 

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​Nick Dybek is a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship. He received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Oregon State University. He is the author of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man and The Verdun Affair, a finalist for the 2019 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
 
John Larison was born in Oregon in 1979, and worked as a fly-fishing guide and high school English teacher before turning full-time to writing. His most recent novel, Whiskey When We’re Dry, was a Los Angeles Times Bestseller, an Indie Next Pick, and a finalist for the 2019 Ken Kesey Award. It was named a Best Book by O Magazine, Goodreads, Entertainment Weekly, Outside Magazine, Powell's, NPR's All Things Considered, and others, and is currently being developed for a feature film. He lives with his family near Bellfountain, Oregon.
 
Emily Whitman grew up in Colorado and studied history at Harvard and UC Berkeley. She's worked in bookstores and behind library reference desks. In her novels for kids and teens, myth and magic are part of everyday life. Emily loves researching her books, whether by mining library treasures or learning to fly falcons. Her most recent novel, The Turning, won the 2019 Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
 
This free public program is most suitable for adults, high school, and middle school students. Books by the tour’s authors will be available at the events. The program is made possible by Oregon’s Literary Arts, a community-based nonprofit with a mission to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. For more information about this program, please contact Library Director Amy Hutchinson at amyh@lakecountylibrary.org or 541-947-6019. For more information about Literary Arts, connect online at literary-arts.org or contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org or 503-227-2583.