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<img src="cid:ii_15f97d73b4d0d934" alt="Inline image 1" width="355" height="96" style="margin-right: 0px;"><div><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center">3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon, BC V1T 4L4 </span><u style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.caetani.org">www.caetani.org</a> </u><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center">250-275-1525</span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:2.2pt;margin-right:40.25pt;margin-left:36pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:4.95pt;margin-left:5.05pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Public Service Announcement </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:4.95pt;margin-left:5.05pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">For Immediate Release</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">BOOK LAUNCH: “On Mockingbird
Hill” by Mary Kelly & Reading by Kalamalka Press Writer in Residence, Guest
Author: Anne DeGrace </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thursday, November 16<sup>th</sup> 2017 7-9pm<span></span></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Join us in celebrating Mary
Kelly’s new book “On Mockingbird Hill” on November 16<sup>th</sup> from 7-9pm
and enjoy a reading by guest author, Kalamalka Press Writer in Residence: Anne
DeGrace.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“On Mockingbird Hill” is an
account of the idealized lookout lifestyle made popular by Jack Karouac. It is
also the story of a woman’s search for meaningful work. Kelly’s reflections
look humorously on gender, and how sometimes, our lives mysteriously and briefly
intersect with others, leaving an imprint and forcing us to look inward.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mary Kelly
lives in the North Okanagan, a newcomer from Vancouver, BC. She writes
narrative nonfiction and works as a part-time consultant in health and gender
research. Her work has appeared in diverse publications from <i>Event </i>to <i>The
Journal of Integral Theory & Practice </i>to <i>The Dance Current</i>.
On Mockingbird Hill, published by Caitlin Press, is her first book.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="">Mary Kelly’s book launch will be accompanied
by a reading by Kalamalka Press Guest Author Anne DeGrace. DeGrace is a writer,
illustrator, and librarian living near Nelson, British Columbia. She is the
author of four novels, all published by McArthur & Company. She is now
represented by Cormorant Books.</font><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Anne has appeared at select libraries in the
West Kootenay region of BC through the Kootenay Library Federation. She has
appeared at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Ottawa International
Writers Festival, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto; she has
appeared at Word on the Street Vancouver and VIWF’s Incite Series at Vancouver
Public Library. Other appearances include readings on the Sunshine Coast and in
the Okanagan, and in Whitehorse, Halifax, Fredericton, and Kingston. In 2011she
was named Cultural Ambassador for Nelson, BC.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Caetani Cultural Centre is partnering with
Kalamalka Press and Okanagan College to offer this redesigned
Writer-in-Residence program. This collaboration is intended to serve as a
conduit between regional and national literary cultures by welcoming authors of
any genre from across Canada to the North Okanagan to live and write and
commune.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Event is open to
the public and free of charge.</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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250-275-1525 <a href="mailto:air@caetani.org">air@caetani.org</a><span></span></span></p>
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