Beth Powning Awarded Honorary Degree

New Brunswick author (and WFNB member) Beth Powning was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of New Brunswick at its Fall Convocation Ceremony on October 24, 2014.

Some of Beth’s critically acclaimed works include The Sea Captain’s Wife, The Hatbox Letters, Edge Seasons and Shadow Child. She has been widely published in books, anthologies and magazines. Her work has been long and short-listed for a number of literary awards, and in 2010 she received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in English-Language Literary Arts.