The Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series welcomes its first speaker of 2024 on Thursday, January 18, at 7pm with a Zoom-only talk with Gillian Burnes, author of “Soft Features,” a finalist for the 2023 Maine Literary Award for fiction. The novel, set in a fictional Maine town in 1994, tells the story of an overly empathetic national public radio journalist whose attempts to find cheerful stories, or soft features, take her on a series of misadventures.   Gillian Burnes’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train and The Dillydoun Review, and her non-fiction work has appeared in Outside, OnEarth, Wilderness, and other magazines. She lives with her husband and daughter on the edge of her in-laws’ organic cattle farm in central Maine. Soft Features is her first novel. 

This is a Zoom-only talk. Zoom link HERE.

The Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series is supported in part by a generous contribution from Norway Savings Bank.