This month's edition of Westminster Bookmark's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' will feature readings from local novelist Peter Hicks, local poet Spencer Folkins, and newly-arrived-to-New Brunswick author Sonia Di Placido!
Hosted by Fredericton Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, (author, most recently, of the Governor General's Award-nominated novel Hi, It's Me), this free event takes place on Sunday, November 23rd, 3 pm here at the shop (88 York St.)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Peter Hicks writes romantic comedy novels under the pen name Andi Ellis. His latest novel is called Roughing It. He lives in Fredericton.
Sonia Di Placido is a poet, writer and editor. Her works have been published in Jacket2, Canthius, Minola Review, Juniper, The Puritan, White Wall Review, Carousel and The California Journal of Women Writers. She is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. She works part-time as a sessional instructor of English for Academic Purposes at George Brown College. In September 2016, she attended The China Writers' Association International Residency for the cities of Tianjin, Binhai, and Beijing. Exaltation in Cadmium Red was published with Guernica Editions in 2012, and Flesh launched in Autumn 2018. Reviews of Flesh can be found in The Temz Review and Quill and Quire. For more information: diplacido.wordpress.com
Spencer Folkins (he/him) is thinking about replacing all the text on a map with a poem. His writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, the Newfoundland Quarterly, The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause series, The Woodlot, and in the chapbooks Resting Directly on the Earth (Emergency Flash Mob Press) Poems for Burning (Gridlock Lit, 2024) and It’s Been a Fine Year (Anstruther Press, 2025). Spencer is a member of The Egg Poets, a poetry collective — their debut collaborative chapbook All Things to Keep You Here (2023) was published by Homerow, an imprint of QWERTY. He serves as a member of the AX: Arts & Culture Centre of Sussex Literary Committee. He is also a member of his local and Provincial Ground Search and Rescue Associations, in which he has served as President and Board Member (respectively). He teaches in his hometown.
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