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August 16, 17, 18, 7 p.m. Three evenings of free public panel discussions as part of the Elk River Writers Workshop at Chico Hot Springs. Read more.

August 19, 6 p.m. Readings by the Elk River Writers Workshop faculty, Rick Bass, Beth Piatote, J. Drew Lanham, William Pitt Root, and Pamela Uschuk, plus a silent auction at Chico Hot Springs. Read more.

August 31, 7 p.m. An evening of avian poetry with Robert DeMott, author of Up Late Reading Birds of America, and Marc Beaudin, author of Life List: Poems. Read more.