Book Launch: Breakaway by Karissa Donkin

Name: Book Launch: Breakaway by Karissa Donkin
Start: 2025-10-07T19:00:00-03:00
Location: Edmund Casey Hall

Schedule

Tue, 07 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

Edmund Casey Hall | Fredericton, NB

Join Karissa Donkin for the launch of her debut book, Breakaway, on Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00 pm in the Ted Daigle Auditorium.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Westminster Bookmark.
When the first puck dropped in the Professional Women’s Hockey League in January 2024, it had been a long time coming. In Breakaway, Karissa Donkin tells the story of the players’ efforts to create the PWHL, long before the first full season. Following the unnamed 2024 Montreal PWHL team, with some of the best players in the sport, like Marie-Philip Poulin and Erin Ambrose, Donkin takes readers through the League’s founding, the draft process, the practices, and the dramatic arc of the first season. Defying all expectations, with larger crowds and higher revenues than anticipated, this first season was a gamechanger for professional women’s sports leagues.
About the Author:
Karissa Donkin covers women’s hockey and the PWHL for CBC Sports and has spent more than a decade working in newspapers and broadcasting. Since 2016, she has been part of CBC’s Atlantic investigative unit, with stories regularly featured on national programs across all CBC platforms. Her recent reporting on New Brunswick’s Child Protective Services was profiled on The Current.
Donkin has received a National Newspaper Award and several Atlantic Journalism Awards. Her work was also nominated for the prestigious Michener Award.