Maggie Burton & Allison Graves at the Riddle Fence Pop-Up!

Come out to our first-ever reading event at our first-ever Pop-Up Bookstore! Featuring poet Maggie Burton reading from her new book, CHORES, and Allison Graves reading from her forthcoming collection, SOFT SERVE — plus a store that’s loaded with local books from local writers and publishers!

Free of charge, limited seating. Get a jump on your summer reading list: come early and buy books!

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Originally from Brigus, Maggie Burton currently lives in St. John’s with her blended family, including four young children, a plethora of small animals, and her partner, Michael. Trained as a classical violinist, Maggie is a multi-disciplinary performer with a background in arts administration and music education. Maggie started writing poetry after having kids at the age of twenty. Currently, she dedicates her time to community-oriented work and writing.

Allison Graves received her BA in English Literature from Dalhousie University and her MA in Creative Writing from Memorial University where she wrote a collection of short stories called Soft Serve — forthcoming this September with Breakwater Books. Her fiction has won Room Magazine’s annual fiction contest and the Newfoundland Arts and Letters Award. She is the current fiction editor of Riddle Fence, Newfoundland’s Journal of Arts and Culture. She is doing a PhD at Memorial and teaches in the English Department.

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