Literary collective holding author dinner

Sandpoint Literary Collective invites the community to join members at its first semi-annual fundraiser, an author dinner at the Pack River Store.

The June 26 event will not only fill your mind (and stomach) but will raise money for the collective’s educational literary programs and events which benefit not only our members, but also all writers in the community. The Sandpoint Literary Collective is a community of writers and writing professionals — from publishers, and editors to book marketing professionals, indexers, book designers and more. The group is dedicated to literary writing through practice, education, and promotion.

The SLC author dinner will feature Spokane writers, Sam Ligon and Kate Lebo. The event begins at 5 p.m. with a no-host wine and beer reception and the readings. Dinner follows the readings. The special menu for the evening includes frisée salad, chicken fricassee with mushrooms & onions over mashed potatoes & local broccoli and a homemade strawberry shortcake for dessert.

For additional information, please call 208.255.4410 or email losthorsepress@mindspring.com.

Ligon is currently writing and publishing a serial novel, “Miller Cane: A True & Exact History”, which appears in 50 installments in Spokane’s weekly newspaper, The Inlander, as well as online, on Spokane Public Radio, and as a podcast. Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction, including two novels, “Among the Dead and Dreaming” and “Safe in Heaven Dead” and two collections of stories, “Wonderland”, published by Lost Horse Press” and illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and “Drift and Swerve”.

Ligon is co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of “Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze”. His stories have appeared in Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and elsewhere. His essays appear in The Inlander. He teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and is Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference.

Lebo’s writing was anthologized in Best American Essays 2015, and her first collection of nonfiction, “The Book of Difficult Fruit”, is forthcoming from FSG. She’s the author of “Pie School” and co-editor (with Samuel Ligon) of “Pie & Whiskey”. Through the Arts Heritage Apprenticeship program of the Washington Center for Cultural Traditions, she is an apprenticed cheesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut Farm.

The cost is $75 per person.

Information: Lost Horse Press, 208-255-4410; or via email, losthorsepress@mindspring.com. Reservations: Pack River Store, 208-263-2409.