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Junction Reads with Katie Welch

Join us for an online reading and Q and A with Katie Welch and her debut novel, Mad Honey.

Published under Wolsak & Wynn’s Buckrider Books imprint, it is a story about family, farming, bees and what we can believe about ourselves and those we love.

"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 begins to unravel. What had happened to Beck? Where did her father go? How can she keep the farm together? With gorgeous descriptions, deft characterizations and a page-turning plot, Mad Honey immerses the reader in a search for truth bounded by the everyday magic of beekeeping, of family and of finding peace, all while asking how much we really understand the natural world."

Katie Welch’s work has appeared in EVENT Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Temz Review, Split Lip Magazine, Longleaf Review, and elsewhere. An alumnus of the Banff Centre Emerging Writers Intensive, she was the first runner-up in UBCO’s 2019 Short Story Contest. She lives in Kamloops, BC.

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