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2019 Feminist Books for International Women’s Day

by Chris Benjamin

International Women’s Day Celebrates women’s rights, something we couldn’t have without the kind of feminist analysis found in these Atlantic Canadian books

News, Web exclusives February 28, 2019 February 28, 2019

Readers Digest Excerpts Lesley Buxton’s Masterful Weaving of a Heart-wrenching Personal Story

by Lesley Choyce

One Strong Girl Won the Inaugural Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction

# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, History, Reviews December 6, 2018 December 4, 2018

A Family of War Brothers

by John Boileau

Letters, diaries and post-war memoirs enrich the soldiers’ tale

# 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

Features, Nonfiction, Web exclusives November 21, 2018 November 20, 2018

Digging for Creative Non-fiction Treasures:

by Stephen Kimber

Nova Scotia’s Pottersfield Press broadens its literary and geographic horizons

# 87 Fall 2018, Art, Reviews November 20, 2018 November 15, 2018

High-profile Artists Ponder the Contested Meaning of “Home”

by Ray Cronin

Ray Cronin reviews Lezli Rubin-Kunda’s At Home: Talks with Canadian Artists About Place and Practice

# 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

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Leslie Vryenhoek on her novel We All Will Be Received (@BreakwaterBooks) & emotional landscapes

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#NewBrunswick author Chris Eaton's book Symphony No 3. (@bookhug ) developed out of a Jack the Ripper conspiracy theory. What it became was a decadent elegy for a french composer's lost love.

Chris joins us for #today's #ALUreadtheprovinces interview:

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Award-winning author Michael Crummy's Newfoundland remains consistent with past works: it is simultaneously vast and claustrophobic. #MichaelCrummey #JessicaLeeder #newfoundland
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Finding his way to the start of a new book has become a familiar route for award-winning Newfoundland author Michael Crummey. First, there is the avoidance, a glorious, elastic period that stretches for months and sometimes years. It involves high productivity activities such as baking molasses buns midday and, really, anything other than book-writing. #MichaelCrummey #JessicaLeeder

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Last night Woozles Childrens Bookstore hosted the Halifax chapter of 100 Kids Who Care, an organization that see's kids pitch and vote for charities of their choice. There were great pitches by some young burgeoning speakers, as well as snacks, hot chocolate, and a little Nova Scotia trivia smackdown, hosted by Halifax's own Sarah Sawler. ...

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Novel and novella submissions for Engen Books is currently closed, and will be reopened from February 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020. Submissions for short fiction and flash fiction remain open, via the...

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