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Author of Mad Honey
It's our first in-person author event in two years and we're thrilled to present an evening with Katie Welch to talk all things "Mad Honey," her much-anticipated debut novel, and more.
About Mad Honey
When Beck Wise vanished his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family farm, silently absorbing yet another man disappearing from her life. But when Beck reappears three months later—thin, pale, with no idea what day it is, and filled with memories of being bees—a series of layered mysteries begin to unravel. What had happened to Beck? Where did her father go? How can she keep the farm together? Mad Honey immerses the reader in a search for truth bounded by the everyday magic of beekeeping, in family, and in finding peace, all while asking how much we really understand the natural world.
Meet Katie
Katie Welch writes fiction and teaches music in Kamloops, BC, on the traditional, unceded territory of the Secwepemc people. Her short stories have been published in EVENT Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Temz Review, The Quarantine Review, and elsewhere. She was first runner-up in UBCO’s 2019 Short Story Contest, and her story “Poisoned Apple” was chosen as Pick-of-the-Week by Longform Fiction.
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