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Four Indigenous poets to check out in 2021
By Caitlyn Mearns
Atlantic Canada is home to many excellent Indigenous poets. While there are too many to speak of in this one…
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Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Poetry Awards Celebrate Poetic Voice and Environment
By Chelsy Mahar
Poets in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick illuminate our everyday realities and environment in collections shortlisted for the JM Abraham…
Family, mental health and faith are explored in fiction shortlisted for the 2021 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
By Chelsy Mahar
Image Credit: Atlantic Book Awards Shortlisted titles for the 2021 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) explore family relationships, mental…
2021 shortlist for Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) shines light on hardship and resilience
By Chelsy Mahar
Image Credit: Atlantic Book Awards Nonfiction works shortlisted for the Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award in 2021 tell stories of…
2021 Evelyn Richardson Finalist Announcement
The Evelyn Richardson 2021 Shortlists celebrate under-told stories of Atlantic history
By Chelsy Mahar
Image Credit: Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia Shortlisted titles for the 2021 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award explore under-told stories of…
Gerard Collins Reviews an Entertaining, Gorgeous Read Bursting with Subtext
By Gerard Collins
The HillAli BryanDottir Press Ali Bryan’s young adult novel, The Hill, is a well-wrought journey told from the perspective of a…
Maxine Tynes Prize Finalists Reflect on Her Legacy
By Evelyn C. White
Three authors whose respective works probe Mi’kmaq culture, war, and the natural landscape have been shortlisted for the inaugural Maxine…
March 2021: Top Five Local Sellers From Chapters-Coles-Indigo In Each Atlantic Province
By Atlantic Books Today
NOVA SCOTIA 1. Stay The Blazes Home by Len Wagg (Local Interest) 2. The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe (Fiction)…
Chris Benjamin Reviews Richard Levangie’s Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve
By Chris Benjamin
Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve, which won the Young Adult/Juvenile Novel Prize from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, is…
Deadline Extended for the Fourth Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction
By Lesley Choyce
Pottersfield Press is once again looking for submissions from writers who can provide a manuscript of 30,000 to 150,000 words…
Evelyn White Reviews Capturing Crime
By Evelyn C. White
Capturing CrimeGreg Marquis with Roslyn Rosenfeld and Connell SmithNew World Publishing “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Broadcast live,…
FEBRUARY 2021: Top Five Local Sellers From Chapters-Coles-Indigo In Each Atlantic Province
By Atlantic Books Today
NOVA SCOTIA – FEBRUARY LOCAL TOP 5 1. Stay The Blazes Home by Len Wagg (Local Interest) 2. The Spoon Stealer by…
Jean Thornhill Verma Reviews Reflections from Them Days
By Jenn Thornhill Verma
Reflections from Them DaysNellie WintersInhabit Education This residential school memoir is, at once, whimsical and unsettling in how it juxtaposes…
5 Women-Centred Books on International Women’s Day
By Chris Benjamin
Happy International Women's Day! March 8 is a day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural and political achievements worldwide. When…
Chris Benjamin Reviews Allan Bartley’s The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
By Chris Benjamin
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada:A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable KingdomAllan BartleyFormac Publishing Carleton University…
Evelyn C White Reviews I Am Perfectly Me
By Evelyn C. White
A proud and prodigiously talented son of North Preston, Keonté Beals has now teamed with his younger brother Antonio Beals…
How Excess Credit Makes the Poor Poorer
By Chris Benjamin
  After 30 years in the financial sector, Wayne Armitstead shut down his business in 2010. Markets had become too…
January 2021: Top Five Local Sellers From Chapters-Coles-Indigo In Each Atlantic Province
By Atlantic Books Today
NOVA SCOTIA – January LOCAL TOP 5 1. Stay The Blazes Home by Len Wagg (Local Interest) 2. All Together Now by…
Lisa Doucet’s Favourite Canadian Books for Young Readers
By Atlantic Books Today
Happy #IReadCanadianDay! It's a day when everyone's talking about Canadian-authored books for young people. But it's not exactly a niche…
A Brief Excerpt from Patricia June Vickers’ Singing to the Darkness
By Atlantic Books Today
This body of work is a human story, one that follows the Ayaawx (the Tsʹmsyen word for ancestral law), which has, at…