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Thursday, September 19, 2024
Our Writers Read!
It's September when temperatures cool off but publishing heats up. We kick off the autumn crime fiction season with "The Plot Thickens," readings from Sharon Crawford, Alice Fitzpatrick, Lynne Murphy, and Carolyne Topdijan, who will read from their recent work and talk about their writing journeys.
For this meeting only it will be an open meeting: everyone is welcome, member or not! However, even if you are a Member you must register in advance on the SinC-US Zoom site to be sent a link to join us. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing your Zoom link and information about joining the meeting.
Tune in to hear:
- Sharon A. Crawford: A former journalist, Crawford is a freelance memoir and fiction writer, writing consultant/ instructor, blogger, book reviewer, editor, and actor. She hosts the online TV show Crime Beat Confidential. Sharon’s most recent book is The Enemies Within Us: a Memoir (Blue Denim Press, 2020). She runs the East End Writers’ Group.
- Alice Fitzpatrick: The author of The Secrets in the Water, the first of the Meredith Island Mystery series. Fitzpatrick also writes literary and mystery short stories. Her summers, spent with her Welsh family in Pembrokeshire, inspired the creation of Meredith Island. The psychology of the traditional mystery appeals to her when it asks: what makes seemingly ordinary people commit murder?
- Lynne Murphy: Born in Saskatchewan, Murphy regularly references that province in her writing. She worked as a print and radio journalist and was the first woman editor hired by CBC Radio News (1960). The author of Potluck and Other Stories, her short fiction has been published by Sisters in Crime (Toronto), the Mesdames of Mayhem, and Carrick Publishing. A founding member of Sisters in Crime, Toronto, she belongs to Crime Writers of Canada and Mesdames of Mayhem.
- Carolyne Topdjian: A suspense writer and author of the gothic novels The Hitman's Daughter and The Black Moth. A professor in the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts and Design at Humber College in Toronto; Topdjian has published short fiction in PRISM International, Dreamers Magazine, and Firewords Quarterly. She was shortlisted for the Ghost Prize by Fractured Literary.
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