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Meet Local Authors

Don’t miss your chance to meet some of our amazing local authors and storytellers. They will share how they chose the subject for their books, and read excerpts for all to enjoy!

SORRY! Paul and Sheryl Shard have had to cancel for March 12.

Adrienne Davies & Barb Baker, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. Previous winners of the Orillia Packet Short Story Contest share their stories of growing up in Rama and Atherley.

PREVIOUS AUTHOR READINGS

Sherry Lawson (nee Douglas), January 9th at 7:00 pm. Sherry stops by to discuss her first book in her new series. The title of Sherry’s book is: " I’ve been shot at, what’s your excuse? Lessons from my life. " These short stories offer a glimpse into her life and that of her community. The chapters are first hand accounts of growing up in a small reserve community of Mnjikaning from the 1950s to modern times. Stories of love and loss are interspersed with tales of government bureaucracy. Sherry’s stories are reflections of the highs and lows of life. 

Catherine Ashton, September 19th at 7:00 pm. Join Catherine as she reads from her recently released book, Turning Clouds Inside Out: A Country Woman’s Life in the Twentieth Century. This is a biography of Margaret Isabella (Wallace) Beach, who was born in her parents’ farmhouse on Concession 10, of Thorah Township, on September 16, 1900. It covers many of Isabel’s experiences and what she learned from them in her almost 100 years of living in the twentieth century!

 

Irene Snache, October 17th at 7:00 pm. Irene started teaching Native studies at David H. Church School after her family was grown. She was interested in keeping the Ojibwa language alive, so she compiled a dictionary for her school children. Although retired from teaching, Irene still does workshops and has been instrumental in bringing her language back into use.

Krista Lee Woodman, November 21st at 7:00 pm. Join Orillia’s newest author to discuss her first novel “Love, happiness and other lies my mother told me”. Krista’s book, which she describes as “chick lit”, is about a young author who finds out her absentee father has just passed away, leaving her some property in a fictional town in Georgian Bay. Suffering from writer’s block, she moves there from Toronto in hopes of finding inspiration. Woodman, who is originally from Orillia and attended Hillcrest Public School and Park Street Secondary School, moved back last summer.