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Westminster Bookmark's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' hosted and curated by acclaimed author Fawn Parker, returns to the shop on Sunday, February 23rd @ 3pm.This month's event features readings from bestselling New Brunswick novelist Beth Powning and New Brunswick playwright Ryan Griffith!
There will also be two short readings from The Collected Poems of Raymond Fraser by local poets Jordan Trethewey and Michael Pacey.
'The Catch-Up' is free and open to the public.
About the Authors:
BETH POWNING is the author of four novels, The Sister’s Tale, A Measure of Light, The Sea Captain’s Wife, and The Hatbox Letters, and three works of literary non-fiction, Edge Seasons, Shadow Child and Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life. Her works have been published in both Canada and the U.S. Three of her novels were long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award.
She has won the N.B Award for Literary Fiction twice, and been shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Book Award, the Words Worthy Award, and the Edna Staebler Award. Her books have been on the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s Bestseller’s Lists, as well as earning Globe and Mail Best Book titles. She has just finished the 4th draft of a new novel, working title “The Women of Creek Road”, the third novel in a trilogy.
Also a photographer, she has photographed four books, “Roses for Northern Gardens” and “Hardy Trees and Shrubs”, “Roses for High Latitudes and Cold Climates” and “Hardy Apples.” She holds an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from the University of New Brunswick (2013), and an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Mount Allison University (2022), as well as the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in English Literary Arts (2010.)
She lives in rural New Brunswick with her husband, artist Peter Powning.
RYAN GRIFFITH is a playwright from Woodstock, New Brunswick. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, his play Lutz was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2011. His short play, Shepody, Rage and Wolfe, was produced by Theatre Yes in Edmonton and Halifax, and his original plays Returning Fire and Fortune of Wolves, as well as his adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s The Boat, have been produced by Theatre New Brunswick in Fredericton. His play, A Brief History of the Maritimes and Everywhere Else, debuted with the company in March 2019.
RAYMOND FRASER (novelist, poet, short story writer, educator, freelance journalist, and publisher) was born 8 May 1941 to Robert Fraser and Ursula (Graham) Fraser in Chatham, New Brunswick. He had lived in Montreal, Paris, Dublin, and various parts of Spain and New Brunswick. Fraser had written and/or edited twenty-two books. These consist of eleven works of fiction; two biographies (one on the Acadian boxer Yvon Durelle, the “Fighting Fisherman”); a memoir; and six books of poetry, including his collection, Poems for the Miramichi (1965). He died in Fredericton in 2018.
MICHAEL PACEY is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently Van Gogh's Grasshopper (Pottersfield, 2024).
JORDAN TRETHEWEY is the former Poet Laureate of Fredericton and the author, most recently, of the poetry collection These Are the People in Your Neighbourhood.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, Canada
