True confession: four years ago, I moved from Waterloo, Ontario, to Halifax. With me came the naive belief that every place in Canada was mostly the same. How wrong I was. This windswept, hurricane-prone East Coast and its craggy, seemingly limitless shoreline is anything but. Here lives an intricately connected holding ground for raw, unadulterated, infinitely creative writing talent, informed by place and plentiful enough to…
Crow Gulch shows us a poet with a distinct style and point of view.
Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, characters Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people.
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“You should write a book!” How often have you said or heard that?
Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone seems to know a master storyteller, especially on the East Coast. But spinning a yarn is more akin to threading a needle, compared to the long, dedicated work of weaving an intricate tapestry that is an actual book. Getting published is another mystery to navigate and daunting enough that most don’t dare even try.
Linden MacIntrye shared with ABT’s editor his thoughts on Atlantic Canada’s storytelling, and writing about home.
The Atlantic Region is well known for telling stories in various art forms. Today, one of the outputs of that creative culture is an explosion of books and authors, with more titles being published in the region than ever before. Atlantic publishers explore the whys and hows behind the creative inspirations unique to the East Coast.
Susie Taylor, a resident in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, penned her novel, Even Weirder Than Before, after discovering her teenage diaries 20 years later in her mother’s basement. Susie shared some of the backstory with Desiree Anstey.
Donna Morrissey, best-selling author of six novels including Kit’s Law and Sylvanus Now, is working on her memoir, tentatively titled Rocking Her Babies, a journey through love, grief and mental illness, and back to life again. She shared some of the memoir-writing experience with Kimberley Hicks.
Amy Spurway’s debut novel, Crow, published this spring to rave reviews.
A recipe for Cornmeal-crusted Salmon Cakes with Apricot and Currant Chutney from Formac Publishing’s East Coast Favourite Fishcakes Plus Bakes Beans and Other Great Accompaniments
Crow Gulch shows us a poet with a distinct style and point of view.
Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, characters Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people.
Part memoir, part golf instruction, part exploration of the self and the mind, this book reads as any or all of these.
A recipe for Cornmeal-crusted Salmon Cakes with Apricot and Currant Chutney from Formac Publishing’s East Coast Favourite Fishcakes Plus Bakes Beans and Other Great Accompaniments
Try Agnes’s own recipe, which more than holds up to the test of time!
An excerpt of Allison Watson’s medical memoir, Transplanted: My Cystic Fibrosis Double-Lung Transplant Story.
An Excerpt From Mark Cullen’s Escape to Reality
