UPEI professor and author Deirdre Kessler will give a public reading on Saturday, 12 September, 7 pm, at the Macphail Homestead  in Orwell.

Deirdre will reading new poems, excerpts from a recently published memoir, Mother Country, and from a novel in progress.

The setting will be the Great Room of Sir Andrew Macphail’s house in Orwell. The free public reading is sponsored by The Writers’ Union of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Macphail Homestead.

Deirdre Kessler is a poet and author of 15 books for young people and a dozen books of nonfiction for adults. Recently published are a memoir, Mother Country, published by Oberon Press (Dec. 2014) and Born! A foal, five kittens, and Confederation, a children’s book illustrated by Brenda Jones set in Charlottetown in 1864, which received a 2015 P.E.I. Museum & Heritage Foundation writing award and a 2015 City of Charlottetown Heritage Award. Deirdre teaches creative writing, children’s literature, and the course on L.M. Montgomery with UPEI’s Department of English. She is a recipient of a UPEI Award for Teaching Excellence.

Reading from 7:00 to 8:00 pm

 There will be a cash bar.

The Macphail Homestead, 271 Macphail Park Road, Orwell, is a 20-minute drive from Charlottetown.

Contact: Doreen Huestis, Macphail Homestead Site Director:

902-651-2789 or  macphailhomestead@pei.aibn.com