The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia recently announced the 2015 shortlist for this year’s East Coast Literary Awards, and if you’re looking for summer reading, you’d do well to start here. The nominees were heavily vetted by the WFNS jury, who sifted through 62 submitted titles from four Atlantic provinces to come up with these […]
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Writers write… and win prizes
Writing is a lonely art. But if you do it right, you will be heaped with praise. Why, just today The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) revealed the winners of the 35th Atlantic Writing Competition (AWC). Judges Susan White and Sue Carter Flinn (both past AWC winners); Devon Code, winner of the Writers’ Trust […]
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It’s Giller time
All the book peeps turn in their corduroy jackets for tuxes (nothing like perpetuating a stereotype) for the Giller Prize ceremony, one of the country’s biggest literary nights. The Atlantic Book Awards Society wants you to be part of the festivities: they’re throwing a party down at the Writers’ Fed (1113 Marginal), tonight, from 8-11pm, […]