Literary Speaker Series coming to Secord Homestead
Niagara Parks Commission will host four Canadian authors as part of its free new literary speaker series at the Laura Secord Homestead.
Coast to Coast: Canada’s Literary Women is part of the Parks’ Canada 150 lineup of events, and will take place the first Thursday of each month for the rest of 2017.
Reading from her second novel U Girl, Meredith Quartermaine kicks off the series Sept. 7. Her poetry collection Vancouver Walking in 2005 was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
Comic actor and writer Dawn Dumont follows on Oct. 5. She’ll read from her award-winning 2015 novel Rose’s Run, about a single mother of two who decides to run in her reserve’s annual marathon, and ends up encountering a demon spirit who feeds off the strength of women.
Returning to Niagara on Nov. 2 will be Cathy Marie Buchanan, whose Niagara Falls-based novel The Day the Falls Stood Still was a New York Times bestseller. Set in 1915, the love story follows a sheltered teenager who returns to her posh family home upon graduation to discover nothing is as she remembered.
The series concludes Dec. 7 with Newfoundland’s Jessica Grant, reading from her offbeat novel Come, Thou Tortoise, about an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in a life-changing mystery.
All readings start at 7 p.m. To reserve seats, visit www.niagaraparks.com/coast.