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# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, Features, Fiction, History, Nonfiction November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018

This is What You Should Read:

by Chris Benjamin

18 Atlantic Canadian Books That Are Generating Buzz

# 87 Fall 2018, Editions, People, Reviews November 16, 2018 November 13, 2018

Robert Chafe’s Drama Centres on a Man Who Saved Endangered Whales

by Jeff Bursey

Jeff Bursey reviews Robert Chafe’s one-act play, Between Breaths

News March 13, 2018 March 13, 2018

Final Call for the First Pottersfield Prize for Creative Non-Fiction

by Lesley Choyce

Deadline is March 30, 2018

News, Web exclusives August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017

Pottersfield Press Launches Prize for Creative Nonfiction

by Lesley Choyce

First and second prize winners will receive a publishing contract

#83 Spring 2017, Editions, Features, Nonfiction July 24, 2017 July 24, 2017

An Insider’s Story of Canadian Prisons

by Greg Marquis

Robert Clark takes on a “culture of collective indifference” around incarceration

People, Reviews June 28, 2017 June 20, 2017

All Things Fishing

by Margaret Patricia Eaton

The pairing of Freeman and his biographer is a match made in angler’s paradise

History, Non-fiction, People, Reviews May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017

A Grand Adventure a Scientific Feminist Love Biography of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad

by Allan Lynch

an adventure book, a love story, double biography, scientific synopsis, feminist primer and modern history rolled into 438 pages

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