AUTHOR EVENT: Claire Hersom

The Readfield Community Library welcomes Winthrop, Maine author Claire Hersom on Wednesday October 15 at 3:00pm to the Readfield Town Office (8 Old Kents Hill Road) to talk about her new fiction book Smithville Junction: A Maine Novel.

Of regional fiction genre, the book is set in the 1940's, and follows a young family through a small, rural town's journey toward a reluctant forgiveness surprisingly found through the innocence of an 8 year old girl.

This event is free and open to the public. Please join us! Books available for sale/signing after the event.

About the Author:
Claire Hersom is a native Mainer with two books of poetry published by Moon Pie Press: Drowning: A Poetic Memoir (2008) and Dreamscape (2017). Her poem Dreamscape was nominated by Moon Pie Press for a Pushcart Prize. She is a past recipient of Boston's Saint Botolph Club Foundation's New England Emerging Artist Award for poetry. In 2025, her poem First Day at the New Field was featured on Maine Public Radio's Poems from Here and Now selected and read by Maine's poet laureate, Julia Bouwsma. This year, Claire stepped away from her 11 years co-organizing the poetry venue The Bookey Readings, turning attention to her recently published book Smithville Junction: A Maine Novel. Claire has three grown children, six granddaughters, and lives in Winthrop, Maine.

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