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Sun., July 28, 2019
Summer Stories: ‘Good Little Mice’ by Sharma Shields
Welcome to Summer Stories, The Spokesman-Review’s annual short-fiction series. For 10 weeks, some of Spokane’s best writers will share new, original works of short fiction based on a central theme.
Sun., July 14, 2019
Book review: Hanford is horrific for Millie in ‘The Cassandra’
An acquaintance who studied electrical engineering received a plum job offer from a military contractor after graduation. He turned the offer down. Unlike poor Mildred “Millie” Groves in this novel, …
Sun., March 3, 2019
‘The Cassandra’ excerpt: ‘To Make Men Free’
Sharma Shields joins the Northwest Passages Book Club on March 13.
Sun., Feb. 24, 2019
Reading the Northwest: Shields’ ‘Cassandra’ sets a dark tale at Hanford
Author Sharma Shields explores the Manhattan Project and greek mythology in her new novel.
UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 12, 2019
Snow cancels Sharma Shields’ release party for “The Cassandra”
Her date with the Northwest Passages Book Club and Seattle author and librarian Nancy Pearl is still on. Mark your calendars for March 13.
Sun., Feb. 3, 2019
Bridging two worlds: ‘Story and Image’ show at Emerge in CdA transforms Sharma Shields’ words into visual art
The exhibition and reading, “Story & Image: Illustration in the Inland Northwest,” will feature images and scenes rendered to depict Shields’ short story “Witch Lake.” The dark tale of sexual …
Sun., Jan. 6, 2019
Book Notes: Sharma Shields’ ‘The Cassandra’ is building buzz
Shields and Mills prepare to bring new novels into the world in 2019, poets Caraway and Lindholdt release new collections, and visiting writers book events in Spokane.
Sun., Feb. 11, 2018
Regional writers explore ‘Towers and Dungeons’ in ‘Lilac City Fairy Tales’
The fourth “Lilac City Fairy Tales,” a benefit for Spark Central, will be Wednesday at the Bing Crosby Theater.
UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 20, 2018
With debut novel, Nancy Pearl chronicles the ups and downs of unlikely love
Super librarian Nancy Pearl never expected to write a novel. “It was never on my bucket list,” she said, speaking before an audience of nearly 170 people Saturday in the …
Thu., March 23, 2017
Toil and trouble: Lilac City Fairy Tales brings ‘Weird Sisters’ and local authors to the stage
“Lilac City Fairy Tales” invites writers to explore theme of “Weird Sisters” in new anthology.
Fri., Jan. 6, 2017
Poet Tim Greenup creates a coming-of-age collection in ‘Without Warning’
The Scablands Books is the brainchild of novelist Sharma Shields, and an offshoot of Scablands Lit, a nonprofit literary organization that supports artists and writers in the Inland Northwest.
Sat., Oct. 8, 2016
Spokane’s Sharma Shields claims top prize at Washington State Book Awards
Author’s debut novel, “The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac,” traffics in the weird and wonderful world of lake monsters, bird women, and a pungent sasquatch named Mr. Krantz.
Sun., Aug. 7, 2016
Summer Stories: Witch Lake
When the witch was a just a girl, living in the middle of the dark woods above the big lake, her mother fell ill with pneumonia. The father refused to …
Thu., Feb. 11, 2016
Fairy tale nuptials: ‘Lilac City Fairy Tales’ hits the Bing
“Lilac City Fairy Tales” returns with new authors and new stories
Thu., March 12, 2015
Collaboration charts new artistic ground
The organizers of Friday’s Spokane Symphony and Terrain collaboration, “Uncharted Territory,” are keeping details a little vague. Intentionally. “This is something that not many orchestras, if any, have done in …
Thu., March 12, 2015
Collaboration charts new artistic ground
The organizers of tonight’s Spokane Symphony and Terrain collaboration, “Uncharted Territory,” are keeping details a little vague. Intentionally. “This is something that not many orchestras, if any, have done in …
Sun., Jan. 25, 2015
Sharma Shields’ debut novel makes fantastical footprint
In a magical place known as Stateline, Idaho, a boy lives in a small house with his mother and father. Or at least he does until the day his mother …
Sun., Oct. 12, 2014
Book Notes: Beacon Hill Reading Series features Welcker
When Ellen Welcker isn’t helping students at Eastern Washington University’s Writers Center, she’s writing poetry and organizing readings of poetry – sometimes in her own living room. Welcker, who has …
Sun., July 20, 2014
“Harmony”
“This is all about the environment, kids,” Mom tells Ernie and me. She opens an arm up toward the river, which is slow-moving, wide and clean. “It’s all about how …
Sun., April 6, 2014
Spokane ‘texture’ comes through in ‘Shorties’
Kevin Taylor has a theory: Everybody in Spokane has a story about living here, one of those “only in Spokane” tales that, OK, could happen elsewhere but that seem so …
Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
RiverLit magazine creates outlet for area writers, artists
Keely Honeywell is pitching Anthology, a fundraising event for the Spokane literary magazine RiverLit at a new all-ages venue downtown, as a literary variety show. “We’ve got fiction readers. One …
Sun., Feb. 10, 2013
Book Notes: Sherman, Shields, Lindholt featured at Beacon Hill
Three Spokane writers will featured during the annual Beacon Hill Reading Series on Tuesday: Diane Sherman, author of the poetry collection “Walkabout” (2011), Sharma Shields, author of the short story …
Sun., June 24, 2012
Book Notes: Long story short – she embraced her hometown
Sharma Shields grew up on Spokane’s South Hill. As she wrote in an essay for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, she always wanted to leave Spokane to “flee the idiot …
Sun., March 13, 2011
Book Notes: Big events planned for O’Brien book
Spokane’s Big Read is in full swing, with events ranging from theatrical adaptations of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” to Vietnam-themed film screenings to various veteran-oriented discussions. I can’t …