Weekend Pick for October 11, 2024
 Katherine Higgs-Coulthard | Let me introduce our guest contributor for the month of October. Kat started writing as a child and uses her positions as an author and professor at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, to serve as an advocate for creativity and effective writing instruction in schools. In 2008, she opened Michiana Writers' Center as a way to support writers of all ages through classes and workshops in the South Bend/Mishawaka area. In 2013, Kat founded the Get Inked Teen Writing Conference at Saint Mary’s College, which brings together young writers and published authors. Her YA novel, Junkyard Dogs, made the shortlist for the Indiana Author Awards. |
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill
| If you're not already familiar with author Stephanie Hemphill from her Printz Honor Book Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, October is a great time to discover her work. Hemphill's novels are historical fiction told in verse, giving them depth and power. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials that resulted in nineteen hangings. In the author's note for Wicked Girls, Hemphill shares that she wrote the story in part to explore the factors that allowed the teen girls of Salem to become the most powerful people in town. The socio-political dynamics portrayed in the book are eerie echoes of cancel culture and the sway pop icons and influencers have on society. |  |
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