An Evening with Beth Powning

Join one of New Brunswick's most beloved writers and discover what has inspired her fiction and non-fiction work with host Jonna Brewer. 

Free admission

Biography

Beth Powning is the author of three memoirs (Home, Shadow Child, Edge Seasons) and three novels (The Hatbox Letters, The Sea Captain’s Wife and A Measure of Light). She has taught memoir-writing workshops for the Writer’s Federation of N.B. in Sackville and Fredericton; The Maritime Writer’s Workshop; and The Great Blue Heron Writer’s Workshop in Antigonish, N.S. Her memoirs have received awards: Home was a New England Bookseller’s Choice, Shadow Child was short-listed for the Edna Staebler Award for literary non-fiction, and Edge Seasons was a Globe and Mail Best Book. She has spoken, read and taught at literary festivals across Canada and in the US, UK and Ireland. She lives in Markhamville, NB.