Woodbridge Farm Readings with Award-Winning Author Alix Hawley and Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern

This podcast features two outdoor readings from the Woodbridge Farm Writer's Retreat Reading Series in Kingsville, Ontario. Windsor Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern reads selected poems from her seven books, and Alix Hawley reads from her award-winning historical fiction series about the life of Daniel Boone.

Mary Ann Mulhern holds a Masters of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Windsor. Mulhern wrote The Red Dress, her first book of narrative poetry, which focused on her experiences living in a convent for eight years in the 1960s. Her next book, Touch the Dead (2006) was shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos Award in 2007. She has written countless poems, and published seven books to date. Mary Ann Mulhern was selected as Windsor’s Poet Laureate for the 2019-2022 term.

Alix Hawley studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University, the University of East Anglia, and the University of British Columbia. She published a story collection, The Old Familiar, which was longlisted for the ReLit award, with Thistledown Press in 2008. Several of her stories have won accolades from the CBC, and in 2017 "Witching" won the CBC Short Story Prize. Her first novel, All True Not a Lie in It, was published by Knopf Canada as its New Face of Fiction pick for 2015, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the  Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the BC Book Prize for Fiction. And her second novel, My Name Is a Knife, was longlisted for the Giller Prize. Both follow the story of larger-than-life frontiersman Daniel Boone.

Find out more about the authors:
http://blackmosspress.com/mary-ann-mulhern/
https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Pages/Mary-Ann-Mulhern.aspx
http://www.alixhawley.com/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/188181/alix-hawley