Reading South Shore With Pride

LaHave River Books is pleased to host an event for Lunenburg Pride Week, Reading South Shore with Pride on July 11th at 7pm. This multi-generational event will reflect a diversity of perspectives and writing experience. Readers include Governor General’s Award for Poetry winner Annick MacAskill, KJ Jackman, Nolan Natasha, and Peggie Graham. The four will share their writing and thoughts and there will be an opportunity for discussion. All are welcome.

Bios of Participants:
Annick MacAskill is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent of which, Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award and the J.M. Abraham Award, and won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. MacAskill has taught creative writing with the League of Canadian Poets, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poet-in-Residence programme, and others. Next year, she will be faculty with the Banff Centre. MacAskill lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

KJ Jackman is a grade 2 student attending Bluenose Academy. He has trained in ballet, tap, singing, piano, and ukulele. In summer 2022, KJ performed in a children’s production of Encanto (Nomad Stages) and has recently joined the senior ensemble of the prestigious boys’ choir, Capella Regalis. KJ is also an aspiring playwright, and one day hopes to produce his own original musical, Dragons in the Sky.

Nolan Natasha is a queer and trans writer and multi-discipline artist living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Nolan is the author of I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? (Invisible Publishing 2019). He has been a finalist for the CBC poetry prize, the Ralph Gustafson poetry prize, the Geist postcard contest, Room magazine’s poetry contest, and was runner-up in the Thomas Morton fiction prize.

Peggie Graham began her writing life as a journalist and later worked as a government information officer, editor, and communications consultant for small businesses and not-for-profits. No matter what kind of writing work she did over her career, she always wrote creatively. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in newspapers, literary journals, and aired on CBC Radio.

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