Join Kate Woodworth and More Authors at Kickstand, Arlington Author Salon
Can Climate Writing Inspire Climate Action?
Three Boston-area writers, including Kate Woodworth (author of Sibylline’s new Little Great Island), Julie Carrick Dalton (author of The Last Beekeeper and Waiting for the Night Song) and Cate Mingoya-LaFortune (author of Climate Action for Busy People) discuss the power of the written word to bring about social change at the Arlington Author Salon on October 9th, 2025 at 7:30pm.
EVENT INFORMATION
October 9th, 2025 – 7:30pm
Kickstand
594 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA
For more information, please visit Kickstand’s event page here.
Purchase your copy of Little Great Island here.
About Little Great Island:
ON LITTLE GREAT ISLAND, CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISRUPTING BOTH LIFE AND LOVE
After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.
Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.
About Kate Woodworth:
Kate Woodworth is the author of the novel Racing Into the Dark (EP Dutton, 1989), hailed as “A compelling exploration of mental illness” by Booklist and as an “auspicious debut” by Publishers Weekly. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah and other literary journals. A retired medical writer in addition to fiction writer, she has received numerous awards and recognition for her writing, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, multiple Utah Arts Council and Dalton Pen Communication Awards, and an International Association of Business Communicators finalist recognition. She received her MFA from Boston University.
