What is it about life in this province that inspires so much beautiful art and culture? How does a preteen with a thirst for knowledge look at our efforts to strike a balance with the natural world? What makes for a real page-turner of a mystery novel?
Explore the answer to these topics during a special evening of stories and conversation hosted by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
Please join us for a Readers & Writers Night at Conserver House (180 St. John St., Fredericton) on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 7 – 9 p.m. Admission is $15 per person.
This fundraiser for the Conservation Council is being held with support from Goose Lane Editions, Picaroons Traditional Ales, Westminster Books and Tony’s Music Box. Featured authors include Beth Powning, Carla Gunn and Gerard Beirne.
Guests will hear readings from these New Brunswick authors and have the chance to pick the writers’ brains during a casual Q&A and open discussion. What inspires them? How does the creative process work? Come out for an enjoyable evening of learning and sharing with these accomplished authors.
Snacks will be provided and the cost of admission includes pints of beer supplied by the award-winning brewers at Picaroons in Fredericton. All proceeds will go toward the Conservation Council’s programs to protect our land, air and water.
Come out to hear a good story, share in a lively discussion, maybe pick up a new book or two and have a brew among good company at cozy Conserver House.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Beth Powning is an award-winning author known for her lyrical, powerful writing and the profound emotional honesty of her work. She has won the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in English-Language Literary Arts, while her work has been shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, among other accolades.
Beth will read from her seminal book, Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life, which was recently reissued from Goose Lane Editions. The memoir was inspired by Beth’s 25 years on a New Brunswick farm and captures the spirit of a life lived with nature.
Carla Gunn is a writer and psychology professor with a keen interest in environmental matters and a passion for spreading hope about the natural world and our place within it. Carla will read from her first novel, Amphibian, the story of a sharp-witted preteen who discovers the best way to quell his anxiety over the ecological threats we’re facing is by getting involved in building a better world. She will also read from her work in progress, Dogged.
Amphibian was short-listed for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was named a ‘top book of 2009’ by The National Post, a Top Five First Fiction by The Globe and Mail, and was a 2011 Evergreen Award finalist. The book has since been published in German, Italian, Spanish and French, and was adapted into a theatrical production in 2013.
Gerard Beirne is an Irish writer, poet and fiction editor of The Fiddlehead Literary Magazine, the county’s oldest literary publication.
He is a past recipient of The Sunday Tribune/Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award and his poetry and prose has been runner-up to the The Patrick Kavanagh Award and short-listed for The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2004, among other honours. More to come…