Tahoe Literary Festival

12:30pm PDT

Food Writing: Telling Stories Through Taste

Saturday October 10, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

Food is never just what's on the plate—it carries memory, identity, culture, and connection. In this interactive workshop, authors Gabrielle Meyers and Dianne Reeves Angel explore the art of transformin the culi arts into story. Through discussion, examples, and writing prompts, participants will discover how sensory detail, place, and personal experience can bring food to life on the page. Whether you're writing memoir, fiction, essays, travel or restaurant stories, or food journalism, you'll gain practical techniques and fresh inspiration to create vivid, engaging narratives that resonate long after the last bite.

Speakers

Dianne Reeves Angel

Presenter

Dianne Reeves Angel is the author of Every Restaurant Tells a Story: Tales of Film, Food and Fabulous Misadventures, published by Lost Telegram Press, losttelegrampress.com, in December 2025. The book is available in softcover, ebook, and audiobook formats.
Angel’s career has be... Read More →

Gabrielle Myers

Gabrielle is a former chef and the author of Hive-Mind, a memoir, the poetry books Too Many Seeds (2021), Break Self: Feed (2024), Points in the Network (2025), Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life (2026) and the forthcoming La Ruta es Clara (Fall 2026). Her publications... Read More →

Saturday October 10, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Tahoe Wine Collective 760 N Lake Blvd, Tahoe City

Craft Talk, All Genres

3:00pm PDT

Songwriting Workshop

Saturday October 10, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Tahoe Wine Collective

A generative songwriting workshop centered on the edge of feeling, where emotion is still forming and songs begin before they have words or shape. Together we will identify a “seed,” a memory, emotion, image, or fragment of truth, and develop it into a songwriting starting point. Through guided prompts and group exercises, we will explore how to translate experience into lyrics using both direct and indirect language. You will leave with a starting point to continue writing from, along with practical tools for shaping raw feeling into the beginning of a song.

Speakers

Brian Laidlaw

Brian Laidlaw is an author and songwriter based in Moab, Utah. He writes for magazines like Outside, Alpinist, Climbing, and Orion, and his debut nonfiction book Erratica: On Climbing, Language, and Touching Stone was released this fall by Milkweed Editions. He continues to tour as a folksinger, and also moonlights (often by literal moonlight) as a climber, establishing new boulders and routes in the desert and Sierra... Read More →

Saturday October 10, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Tahoe Wine Collective 760 N Lake Blvd, Tahoe City

Craft Talk, Songwriting

6:00pm PDT

Singer & Songwriter Showcase: Free

Saturday October 10, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT

Tahoe Wine Collective

Hosted by Will Richardson, executive director of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, this wildly popular event brings together talented singer-songwriters who will perform and share insights into their songwriting process, background, inspiration, and the creative journey behind their music.

This is a free community event. No-cost registration highly recommended.

Speakers

Will Richardson

Will Richardson is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Tahoe Institute for Natural Science (TINS) which is a member-supported nonprofit organization seeking to advance the natural history, conservation, and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education, and... Read More →

Saturday October 10, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Tahoe Wine Collective 760 N Lake Blvd, Tahoe City

Free Community Event