Lost at sea. Everyone in Nova Scotia knows exactly what those words mean. We’ve seen lives changed by it and families left waiting, desperate for any hope of their loved ones’ safe return. The Disappeared is the story of six men lost at sea, stranded in two lifeboats and their attempt to get back to […]
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Shandi Mitchell wins $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award
Shandi Mitchell—award-winning Canadian director, screenwriter (Gasoline Puddles, The Hanging Garden, Beefcake and The Disappeared) and novelist—is the recipient of the biennial $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for her debut novel, Under This Unbroken Sky (the novel also won the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award. Man, she’s good). Mitchell was presented the award by the president of […]
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Atlantic Book Award winners
When Mike Holmes win, we all win. Sadly, we couldn’t make last night’s Atlantic Book Awards (or the beers after), but it looks like there were no big surprises—Linden MacIntyre and Shandi Mitchell were the big winners—except for one: Coast comic artist Mike Holmes won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Book Illustration for his […]
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Shandi Mitchell wins Commonwealth Prize
Becky Parson Now, we all know that plaques and trophies are dust and painful-speech magnets, but they still give us a hiccup of excitement. Right after receiving two Atlantic Book Awards nominations—-including the big guy, the Thomas Raddall—-filmmaker-turned-author Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky has won the Commonwealth Prize Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean). Mitchell is […]
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Shandi Mitchell breaks ground
Buses roll by frequently. Dog-walkers stroll past, some stopping to chat with coffee-drinkers sitting in a line of chairs and tables. Cyclists pull up and lock their bikes. It’s an everyday scene, an intersection of activity that Shandi Mitchell might well describe. A screenwriter and filmmaker by trade, her first novel, Under This Unbroken Sky, […]
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By the book: literary news round-up
It’s been a quiet summer, literary-wise, but book season is upon us, heavier than last weekend’s lame hurricane. Next Thursday, September 3, is Shandi Mitchell‘s book launch at Pier 21 (6:30pm, reading at 7pm) for Under This Unbroken Sky. This is the first novel for the film producer-director (Baba’s House), which has attracted Canadian, American […]