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Westminster Bookmark's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' closes out its first year of existence here at the shop (88York St) on Sunday, November 24th @ 3pm.This special edition, guest-hosted by writer and bookseller Nick Thran, will see our regular host and curator Fawn Parker switch roles to read from her new novel, Hi, It's Me (a finalist for this year's Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize). Joining her will be traditional basket maker and award-winning novelist Peter J. Clair, and visiting writer Daniel Allen Cox, author of the memoir I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness.
You won't want to miss this incredible group of writers in our last event before the holiday shopping season!
About the Authors:
PETER J. CLAIR was born in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick in the Nigmag territory of Signigtog. He now lives in Tobique, NB. He has worked for much of his life at the traditional craft of ash splint basket making. He has created original product designs for a variety of uses. His baskets have been exhibited in several galleries. Taapoategl & Pallet, his first book, won the 2018 New Brunswick Book Award for fiction.
DANIEL ALLEN COX's memoir, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness, was a finalist for the 2023 Grands Prix du livre du Montreal. Cox is also the author of four novels published by Arsenal Pulp Press, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and Maisonneuve. His essay “The Glow of Electrum,” which appears in this book, was a finalist for a 2021 National Magazine Award and named a Notable essay in The Best American Essays 2021.
FAWN PARKER, Poet Laureate of Fredericton and host and curator of 'The Catch-Up,' is the author of the new novel Hi, It's Me (finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize). Her previous books are the novels What We Both Know, longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize, Set-Point, and Dumb-Show, and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance, winner of the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize and the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. Her story “Feed Machine” was longlisted for the 2020 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, and her story “WunderHorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s After Realism. Fawn is a Ph.D. student at the University of New Brunswick.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
88 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N5, Canada
