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Alison Dyer

Alison Dyer

Alison Dyer's poetry collection I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game is a finalist for the JM Abraham Poetry Award.

# 86 Spring 2018, Editions, Fiction, Reviews August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

Harriet Alida Lye’s Ecological Thriller

Alison Dyer reviews Harriet Alida Lye’s debut novel, The Honey Farm, published by Vagrant Press

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Poetry, Reviews, Web exclusives April 16, 2018 April 16, 2018

Robert Burt’s Poetic Blend of Pastoral and Romantic

The poet weaves themes of love and loss, wandering and discovery

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Here are the top 5 sellers at Indigo, Chapters and Coles in each Atlantic Province for September 2018!

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September 2018: Top 5 Sellers from Chapters-Coles-Indigo in each Atlantic Province – Atlantic Books Today

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NOVA SCOTIA 1. Beholden by Lesley Crewe (Fiction) 2. Bluenoser’s Book of Slang by Vernon Oickle (Local Interest) 3. Westray by Vernon Theriault (History and Political Science) 4. First Degree by Kayla Hounsell (True Crime) 5. Waterfalls of Nova Scotia by Benoit Lalonde (Local Interest)     NEW B...
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Check out the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award shortlists! Congratulations, Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press, Formac Publishing, Chocolate River Publishing, Bouton d'or Acadie ...

Hackmatack Book Awards

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New this year, the Department of Education and Early Childhood is granting sets of the nominated Hackmatack books to public schools in Nova Scotia who register for the program. Register by October 10 to receive the shortlisted books from the Department this fall. Schools that register after October....
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Cape Breton University has a new scholarship in honour of Ronald Caplan of Breton Books! (capebretonbooks.com/) This scholarship will support students who emulate the goals of Ronald Caplan’s Cape Breton’s Magazine and Breton Books by dedicating their studies to Cape Breton’s history and culture. ...

Ronald Caplan Scholarship to focus on Cape Breton culture - Port Hawkesbury Reporter

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MARGAREE: Cape Breton University, thanks to the efforts of the Margaree Area Development Association (MADA), is pleased to have an endowed scholarship offered for those wanting to understand and promote Cape Breton Island. On July 1, MADA announced it would sponsor a scholarship in honour of Ronald....
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The First Prize winner will receive a contract for the publication of the winning book along with a $1,500 advance on 10 percent royalty for all sales. Pottersfield Press

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Pottersfield Publishing’s Second Annual Creative Non-fiction Contest Has Launched – Atlantic Books Today

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Pottersfield Press is again looking for submissions from writers who can provide a manuscript of 30,000 to 150,000 words in any of the following categories: history, memoir, autobiography, biography, literary journalism, political or social commentary, travel writing or virtually any existing or new...
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"'Poetry addresses individuals in their most intimate, private, frightened and elated moments…because it comes closer than any other art form to addressing what cannot be said,' the poet Merwin says.

For years I had been teaching poetry in the creative writing program in a university in Halifax. Now I wanted to use poems to inspire inmates to write about what mattered most to them."

"In the Prison" is an edited excerpt from Carole Langille new nonfiction manuscript, Doing Time.

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In the Prison – Atlantic Books Today

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          Each time I entered prison I signed in, locked my coat and purse in the locker and put on a bulletproof vest. A guard led me down one hall and up another, our stride punctuated by waiting at several locked doors to be buzzed through. Each week I tried to memorize where I was going. Wr...
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