This week we welcome Susan Statham. Susan is an author, artist and editor. She’s a graduate of Algonquin College, the University of Waterloo, the Ottawa School of Art and the National Portrait Academy. She is president of the Cobourg Art Club and Chair of the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group. A former librarian, Susan lives in an Ontario hamlet with her husband and their French Bull dog, Arthur Conan Doyle, aka Artie. Susan has very busy life as a visual artist but she is also a novelist and the editor of Hill Spirits VI an anthology of writing by authors from our region. Today she is here to discuss her latest novel TRUE IMAGE.
Susan Statham
Susan Statham
Join us to hear Susan Statham discuss the sixth volume of Hill Spirits with us. Author and artist, Susan Statham is Chair of the Spirit of the Hills Writers Group. She has edited and contributed to all the Hill Spirits anthology series and is accepting submissions in prose, poetry and pictures for Hill Spirits VI to be published in September as part of Northumberland Festival of the Arts 2024.
Today she has come to tell us about that newest edition. The sixth volume in the series of writing by local and regional authors from five counties was first initiated by members of the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group in 2012.
Susan Statham
A writer, artist and teacher, Susan Statham is a graduate of Algonquin College and the University of Waterloo. She attended the Ontario School of Art and the National Portrait Academy and her quest for classical art instruction is the inspiration for her first mystery novel, The Painter’s Craft.
An editor and a contributor to Hill Spirits I, through V, Susan won the Medli Award for most promising manuscript for her second mystery novel, True Image.
She is Chair of the Spirit of the Hills writers group, past president of Spirit of the Hills and president of the Cobourg Art Club. In 2021, Susan received Cobourg’s Distinguished Civic Award for Arts and Culture.
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