Writing on Fire Anthology by Young Nova Scotia Writers
byThere is a new generation in our midst, with strong voices and things to say
There is a new generation in our midst, with strong voices and things to say
It is the story of Sylvia Pride, who reluctantly returns to rural Newfoundland for her cousin’s wedding after an extended stint in the big city.
I turned my back on writing, but it always ate at my conscience and slowly, poem by poem, story by story, crept back into my life.
“Fractured, figurative but it’s smashed,” Powell says. “It’s not always linear. There is a lot of violence and trauma.”
“Nothing against lighthouses, but Nova Scotia is about more than lighthouses and boats.”
Beth Powning’s A Measure of Light inspires recreation of 17th Century Puritan New England in Sussex, N.B. For six months members of SLICE (Sussex Literary Initiative and Cultural Events) were dedicated to exceeding the fantastic event they organized to launch Beth Powning’s 2010 best-selling novel, The Sea Captain’s Wife. And on Friday they did just that by converting the Royal Canadian Legion into the mid-17th Century…