With support from the California Arts Council, Arts and Culture El Dorado will administer the Veterans’ Voices Writing Workshop, a free, ongoing creative writing program that is open to all veterans from any branch of service. It offers a supportive environment and the tools needed for the writing of fiction and nonfiction stories, service-related or not, as well as memoir, poetry and drama. Newcomers are always welcome. We have engaged two remarkable facilitators – both women, a first for us. Writer Sue Norman, herself a vet, will oversee the South Lake Tahoe program, and poet Lara Gularte will oversee the Placerville program, enabling the Writing Workshop to flourish countywide. In addition, we will publish two anthologies of writing from the program.