Fawn Parker - AX, the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex

AX Literary Series: Fawn Parker

May 23, 2025

AX Literary Series:

Fawn
Parker

AX Gallery | 12 Maple Ave., Sussex
Friday, May 23, 630pm
FREE Event. Donations welcomed and appreciated.

Join us on Friday, May 23rd in the AX Gallery (12 Maple Ave, Sussex, NB) for a special evening with Fawn Parker, Poet Laureate of the City of Fredericton . Moderated by Vanessa Moeller, this event will feature readings from Parker’s latest novel Hi, It’s Me (M&S 2024).

This free event is part of the AX Literary Series—donations are welcomed and appreciated.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from this Up and coming Canadian author 📖✨

Thank you to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this event.

You can find Fawn Parker on instagram as @fawnrachelparker

Bio

Fawn Parker is the current Poet Laureate of Fredericton. Her works include several poetry collections, and novels as well as a short story collection.

She has received several awards including a 2024 New Brunswick Book Award and a 2024 Atlantic Book Award. Her most recent novel Hi, It’s Me (M&S 2024) was nominated for the Writer’s Trust Atwood Gibson Prize.

Parker has an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Toronto and is currently a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.Her next poetry collection, On Vacation, is forthcoming in 2027.

Moderator Bio

Vanessa Moeller’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and The Pottersfield Portfolio and have won several awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honourable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her book, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was published by Signature Editions. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. Originally from Sussex, she now lives in Moncton where she is Senior Creative Writer at m5 the agency.

Book Description

Shortly after her mother’s death, Fawn arrives at the farmhouse. While there, she will stay in her mother’s bedroom in the house that is also occupied by four other women who live by an unusual set of beliefs.

Wrestling with longstanding compulsive and harmful behaviours, as well as severe self-doubt, Fawn is confronted with the reality of her mother’s death. It is her responsibility to catalogue the furniture and possessions in the room, then sell or dispose of them. Instead, Fawn becomes fixated on archiving her mother’s writing and documents, searching for signs, and drawing tenuous connections to help her understand more about the enigmatic woman in the pages.

In Hi, It’s Me, Fawn Parker is unafraid to explore the bewildering relationship between the living and the dead. Strikingly original, provocative, and engrossing Hi, It’s Me takes us into the furthest corners of grief, invoking the physicality and painful embodiment of terminal illness with astonishing precision and emotional force. This mesmerizing, devastating novel asks: Why must it be this way?