Felicity Sidnell Reid
Contact: felicity936@gmail.com
Felicity Sidnell Reid is a poet, novelist, and broadcaster. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in many anthologies and magazines, both print and online. She has published two poetry collections, The Yellow Magnolia (Glentula Press 2021) and The Many Faces (Aeolus House, 2022, e-book 2023). She and her fellow poets, in one of the critique groups set up at the beginning of the pandemic for SOTH writers, are currently working on a chapbook to be published in Poetry Month this year. A third collection of her poetry will also be published in 2025.
Her novel Alone: a Winter in the Woods (Hidden Brook Press 2015, e-book 2020) is set locally in 1796 and still sells to visitors and residents of this area. To buy a copy contact Felicity at felicity936@gmail.com.
Felicity is a long-time member of Spirit of the Hills. She served for eight years as secretary to the board and was the chair of the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ group from 2011 to December 2023. In 2021 she and Kim Aubrey set up and edited a blog, in another effort to keep the SOTHWG community strong during Covid. Many contributions to this blog were then published in an anthology called Our Pandemic Times, released by Shane Joseph at Blue Denim Press.
Felicity was the chair of the Spirit of the Hills Festival of the Arts in its inaugural year, 2017, and the festival in 2019. This was recognized with a Distinguished Civic Award from the Town of Cobourg in 2021. In recent years the festival has grown and become an independent non-profit organization. Felicity has been a director and secretary to the board of the re-branded Festival organization since 2021. Her term expires at this year’s AGM on April 13th. However, she still plans to volunteer behind the scenes in the always exciting festival years.
Felicity is the co-producer and co-host of the radio series Word on the Hills. In 2013, Northumberland 89.7 FM Truly Local Radio was born. The station was looking at proposals for programmes. Felicity and Gwynn Scheltema proposed making a series of 12 shows in which they would interview local authors and invite them to read from their work. The programme now in its twelfth year is still running! Catch it at 89.7 FM at 1.00 pm on Sundays or listen to the podcast at northumberland897.ca. All the shows are archived at wordonthehills.com where they can be accessed at anytime and from anywhere.