Kate Woodworth to Talk Little Great Island on Panel at Anodyne Bookshop

“Little Great Island is an extraordinary achievement and a pure pleasure to read.”
^{—Ha Jin, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of Waiting, War Trash, The Woman Back from Moscow}

Kate Woodworth, author of Little Great Island will be in discussion at Anodyne Bookshop in Searsport, ME alongside Shannon Bowring, author of The Road to Dalton and Where the Forest Meets the River and Linda Greenlaw, first female sword-fishing boat captain on the East Coast and author of The Hungry Ocean, The Lobster Chronicles, and All Fishermen Are Liars. The event will be held on August 10th, 2025 from 2pm.

For more information on this event and the other authors, please visit the bookshop’s event page 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.