'The Catch-Up' Reading Series with M. Travis Lane, Lynn Davies, and Rod Moody-Corbett

Name: 'The Catch-Up' Reading Series with M. Travis Lane, Lynn Davies, and Rod Moody-Corbett
Start: 2024-10-20T15:00:00-03:00
Location: 88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, Canada

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-03:00

Location

88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, Canada | Fredericton, NB

Westminster Bookmark's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' hosted and curated by acclaimed author Fawn Parker, returns to the shop on Sunday, October 20th @ 3pm. This month's event features local favourites M Travis Lane and Lynn Davies, as well as visiting novelist Rod Moody-Corbett. It is free and open to the public.
About the Authors:
LYNN DAVIES was born in Moncton, N.B. and has lived in Amsterdam, Boston, Vancouver, and Halifax. She is the author of four books of poetry, including how the gods pour tea published by icehouse poetry in 2005 and more recently and for children, So Imagine Me, Nature Riddles in Poetry, published by Nimbus Books in 2020. Forthcoming is another picture book from Nimbus in the fall of 2026, entitled “The Graveyard Cat.”
One of Canada's most distinguished writers, M TRAVIS LANE lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She received her B.A. (Junior PBK) from Vassar College, and her M.A. and PhD. from Cornell University. She and her husband Lauriat Lane came to New Brunswick in 1960. Travis taught briefly at Cornell and at the University of New Brunswick and is a Honorary Research Associate with the English department at U.N.B. She is a member of the Voice of Women for Peace and a Raging Granny, a member of the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick and a Lifetime member of the League of Canadian Poets. She has published nineteen books of poetry and two of prose. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in Literary Arts, and the Lieutenant Governor's Award for High Achievement in Literary Arts. She was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2015.
ROD MOODY-CORBETT is an award-winning writer from Newfoundland. His writing has appeared in Socrates on the Beach, The Drift, The Paris Review Daily, and Fiddlehead, among other publications. He is the recipient of the 2022 Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Short Fiction, the University of Calgary’s Kaleidoscope Prize, and the CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize (People’s Choice Award). He serves as a contributing editor for Canadian Notes and Queries. Hides, his first novel, was selected as a Summer Reads pick by the Globe and Mail.