Westminster Bookmark's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' will feature October readings from award-winning writers Emily Hepditch (Murder on Painted Place, a novel) and Alessandra Naccarato (Imminent Domains, essays).
Hosted by Fredericton Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, (author, most recently, of the novel Hi, It's Me), this free event takes place on Sunday, October 26th, 3pm here at the shop (88 York St.)
EMILY HEPDITCH is an award-winning author from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. In 2020, her debut novel, The Woman in the Attic, was published by Flanker Press and quickly became the #1 bestselling book in Newfoundland and Labrador. The book has remained on the Atlantic Books Today top five bestsellers list since its release, and won , among other honours, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for a Mystery. Emily's second thriller, Alone on the Trail, is also an ABT top-five bestseller. She has also written Sweater, her first children's illustrated book. Emily is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she studied linguistics, psychology, and criminology. Murder on Painted Place is her third novel. She lives here in Fredericton, where she works as a lawyer.
ALESSANDRA NACCARATO, born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto), is the recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the CBC Books Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and a graduate degree in Community Economic Development from Concordia University. Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was awarded the AICW Bressani Literary Prize for Poetry, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her creative nonfiction, Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene, was a bronze medal winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Essay Category. She is currently a PhD student in Creative Writing here at UNB.
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