On Saturday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m., Belfast authors Linda Buckmaster and Elizabeth Garber will be at Anodyne Book Shop on Route 1 in Searsport. They will be reading and talking about their work as “writing buddies” for over fifteen years.

With the publication of Buckmaster’s fourth book, Journey Waters. Poems, Prose, Places, she and Garber will be talking about their parallel writing careers over the years—supporting each other, sharing research, initiating public literary events, DYI writers’ retreats, their individual terms as Belfast Poets Laureate, and their current work. This will be an informal talk and reading. Discussion with the audience encouraged, according to Buckmaster, in a news release.

For writers and writing groups, this will be a chance to hear about ways to work with fellow writers for support and comradery. 

Linda Buckmaster’s writing is an engagement with geography that binds land, people, culture, and time in relation to the natural world. Her poetry, essay, and fiction have appeared in more than forty journals. Two of her essays were name Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2013, 2020, and she has been a Finalist multiple years for a Maine Literary Award. Buckmaster has published four books including poetry, essay, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent is Journey Waters: Poems, Prose, Places, a retrospective of twenty-two years of writing. www.lindabuckmaster.com

Elizabeth W. Garber is the author of Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year (2022), and Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter (2018). She has published three books of poetry: True Affections (2012), Listening Inside the Dance (2005), and Pierced by the Seasons (2004). Maine (Island Time) (2013) is a collaboration of her poetry with paintings and photographs of Michael Weymouth. Her essays and excerpts and poems have been included in several journals and anthologies. Three of her poems were read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. www.elizabethgarber.com.