You may have glimpsed Mckayla Eaton hunched over her laptop at Uncommon Grounds or Trident Booksellers & Cafe. But while you were focused on your daily caffeine fix, Eaton was thinking (and writing) about something a bit more magical than a caramel macchiato. Eaton’s debut novel, Summoned, is the first book in a young-adult fantasy […]
Fiction
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Gothic Voices of the City
Every year Dalhousie University awards its Varma Prize to English students who compose original works of gothic fiction. The award is named in memory of Devendra Varma, former professor emeritus at Dal and a former honourary vice-president of the Vampire Research Society. For your horror this Halloween, the Midnight Society once again proudly presents, in order, […]
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Gothic Voices of the City
Every year the Dalhousie Varma Prize is awarded to English students who compose original works of gothic fiction. The award is named in memory of Devendra Varma, former professor emeritus of the university and former honourary vice-president of the Vampire Research Society. For your spooky enjoyment this Halloween, here are last year’s first, second-and third-place […]
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Gothic Voices of the City
Every year the Varma Prize recognizes Dalhousie University English 
students who compose original works of gothic fiction or poetry. Funds 
for the prize are donated by Bill Blakeney in memory of Dr. Devendra Varma, former professor emeritus of Dalhousie and former honourary vice-president of the Vampire Research Society. Submitted for the 
approval of The Midnight […]
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Christy Ann Conlin makes a spirited return with The Memento
“It’s hard to believe this author is just beginning,” wrote Michelle Berry in her four-star review of Heave, the debut novel by Christy Ann Conlin, in the Globe and Mail. “I can’t wait to see what she accomplishes next.” Publish date: January 26, 2002. Fourteen years, a move from the north end to the Annapolis […]
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Top 10 books released in 2015
Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life (McLelland & Stewart) It’s the mid-1990s and Quebec is poised for its second referendum when Jim travels with his parents to his mother’s childhood home on a lake in Ontario. What follows next is the everyday meat of any family saga as Jim comes of age and finds out more […]
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Read my list: books for your next beach trip
Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals It’s summertime and you’re probably going a little buck wild—it’s OK we’re all still young at heart. My hangover cure: Two Advil, coconut water, as many carbs as you can handle and this drug-and-alcohol-laced black-out of a dysfunctional friendship. Laura’s getting married and trying to grow up. Her best friend Tyler […]
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Half-heard, chapter 28
The sunset beams in a kind of aqueous way this time of year, hitting the house and slowly dripping down the walls. And the earlier-than-usual glow of late August’s pre-dusk has a kind of sad Technicolor movie hue to it. The living room can look like it’s front row to a dimming sun’s last gasp […]
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Half-heard, chapter 26
For whatever reason, unemployment was the norm for the roommates during the academic off-season in Halifax. Perhaps it was the exhaust-rich air that attenuated the constitutions of the student class, turning them to slugs seeking society’s shade, or an entitlement created by creditors and entertainment industry’s subjects with lives full of upper-urban decadence, constantly entrenched […]
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Half-heard, chapter 25
The North End Plant Snatcher was by all official reports an unknown maybe-kleptomaniac/maybe-botanophile who ransacked households mid-soiree, right under the tenants’ own noses. If you asked anyone in the social-circles extending between north-north and north-western parts of the city, a guy named Steve was the culprit and irrefutably so, who could be discovered to be […]
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Half-heard, chapter 24
Sarah and Myles conversed a while longer. When Sarah felt distressed she was able to keep herself on stable psychological footing by talking it out. If in stasis she’d probably have let herself jump to the furthest conclusions and plot the most damaging feats for reparations. She’d already be at Gert’s door demanding to see what […]
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Half-heard, chapter 23
Sarah revealed that she saw three small tied-off latex baggies of who-knows-what fall out of the backside of Gertraud’s pajama shorts, and Myles’ eyes forwardly displaced themselves a comically gruesome distance out of his sockets, so far out in fact that Sarah would later tell friends that she had only seen that kind of eye-pop […]