208 Fiction competition results
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration …
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration …
By Danielle Packard
Reader Contributor
Amid the sea of books and films that have recently been released on the American opioid crisis, Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
It was genealogical research that led local author Kathleen Huntley to the story of Flora MacDonald.
A first-generation American by way of Scotland on her …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The old literary adage, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” is often attributed to Mark Twain. It’s hard to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Estimates place the Sandpoint Monday Writers’ origins sometime in the 1990’s, and at the hands of founding member Karen Seashore. The group has seen several …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
More than 1,600 books across 32 states were banned during the 2021-2022 school year alone. In Idaho, 26 titles were banned across three school districts, …
By Rick Price
Reader Contributor
I chatted with the writer Mike Medberry the other day. I took notes about what he said so I could write up an interview. When …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
There was a time when what you thought about guns didn’t somehow indicate your opinions on everything from electric cars to the germ theory of …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Nancy Cerra-Medland is fond of the term, “new adventure.”
“Life needs to be full of those,” she said. “You can’t be complacent, or miss out …
By Mary Haley
Reader Contributor
“A Far Journey,” by local author Tom Reppert, is a young adult novel that throws a modern teenager back in time to the Oregon trail. …
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