Vanessa F. Penney
Vanessa F. Penney was born in northern Newfoundland and raised in rural Nova Scotia. The coal-black ocean depths and bone-buried shorelines of the East Coast inspire her writing. Vanessa lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The Witch of Willow Sound is her first novel.
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April 2026
Feeding Ghosts
This event will begin with a Flash FRYE reading by Vanessa F. Penney (The Witch of Willow Sound, ECW), followed by an in-conversation with Jon Claytor (Nowhere, Goose Lane) and Sara Peters (Mother of God, McClelland & Stewart). Join our guests as they discuss nightly visions, materializing figures, and confronting the incomprehensible.