Author Talk with Catherine Hernandez

Tri-Cities Writers Festival

Hear from Catherine Hernandez, an award-winning author and screenwriter, during a virtual author talk at the Tri-Cities Writers Festival.

This virtual event is being live-streamed on Youtube, with a question and answer period following the author talk. You can choose to watch from home or visit the City Centre branch to watch the live-stream with other fans.

No registration required, just drop-in.

To watch the livestream, follow this link: [Livestream link will be published May]

For more information about this Tri-Cities Writers Festival event, email ask@coqlibrary.ca 

CATHERINE HERNANDEZ (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won 8 including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made several Best-Of lists of 2020. Her third novel, The Story of Us, was an instant national bestseller and was selected for the One Book Peterborough, Kitchener and Simon Fraser University. She is currently working on a few television projects. Her fourth novel, Behind You, about a young girl growing up in Scarborough when a serial killer was at large, was published this year and was an instant national bestseller. Before it hit the shelves, it was optioned by Conquering Lion Pictures to become a feature film, with Catherine writing the screenplay. 

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