LEWISTON — Authors Catharine H. Murray and Suzanne Farrell Smith will be the guests of the Lewiston Public Library Saturday, Oct. 5, for an afternoon reading and discussion on the art of memoir writing as a means of exploring and describing experiences of loss and memory.
The program is free and open to the public and will take place at 3 p.m. at Callahan Hall in the library.
Catharine H. Murray lives in Portland, where she teaches writing workshops and works as a writing guide and editor for those who want help shaping their stories into finished work. She has taught workshops at Harvard University, Maine Medical Center, University of New England, Maine State Prison and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Murray earned an MFA at the Stonecoast Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine where she was the creative nonfiction editor of the Stonecoast Review. “Now You See the Sky,” her debut memoir, topped Portland’s bestseller list and was selected as book-of-the-month by The Compassionate Friends in January.
Suzanne Farrell Smith is the author of two books, “The Memory Sessions” and “The Writing Shop.” Her work has appeared in numerous literary and academic journals, was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2014, and won a Pushcart in 2019. She teaches literacy education and writing and is creative advisor to Longridge Review. Farrell Smith lives in Connecticut with her husband and sons.
Books will be available for sale at the event. For more information, contact the LPL Adult & Teen Services desk at 207-513-3135 or LPLReference@Gmail.com
