'The Catch-Up,' EMERGENCY FLASH MOB edition, with Triny Finlay, Ross Leckie & Jennifer Houle
Schedule
Sun, 25 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, Canada | Fredericton, NB
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This month's edition of 'The Catch-Up' features readings from new chapbooks by local poets Triny Finlay, Ross Leckie & Jennifer Houle! All of the chapbooks are published by Ian LeTourneau's Emergency Flash Mob Press. 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, January 25th, 3 pm here at the shop (88 York St.)
About the authors:
Triny Finlay (she/they) was born in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in Toronto. They are a queer settler poet, writer, teacher, scholar, and mother whose award-winning serial long poem, Myself A Paperclip (Goose Lane, 2021), captures the echoes, vibrations, and realities of debilitating mental illness, psych ward life, and stigma. They are also the author of the critically-acclaimed collections Histories Haunt Us (Nightwood, 2010), Splitting Off (Nightwood, 2004), and the chapbooks Anxious Attachment Style (Anstruther, 2022), You don’t want what I’ve got (Junction, 2018) and Phobic (Gaspereau, 2006). They live and work on the unsurrendered and unceded lands of Wolastoqiyik, where they teach English and Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick.
Ross Leckie’s publications include The Critique of Pure Reason, a chapbook from Frog Hollow Press, and three books of poetry: A Slow Light with the Signal Editions series of the Véhicule Press; The Authority of Roses with Brick Books and Gravity’s Plumb Line with Gaspereau Press. A professor emeritus at UNB, Ross was, for many years, the editor of The Fiddlehead. He is currently a poetry editor at Goose Lane Editions (icehouse poetry), and continues to organize UNB's Poetry Weekend, a festival he founded more than twenty years ago.
Jennifer Houle began publishing in Canadian literary journals in 2005, and is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, The Back Channels and Virga (Signature Editions). Her first children’s book, Un Logis Pour Molly/A Home for Molly was published simultaneously in French and English by Éditions Bouton d’Or Acadie in June 2022. A life-long Maritimer, she lives in Hanwell, NB, where she sits on the board of Word Feast, Fredericton’s Literary Festival and is actively involved in the arts community.
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Where is it happening?
88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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