Member Announcements
Jim is retiring after 23 wonderful years as a civil trial counsel at the Ministry of the Attorney General. Maybe now he'll get that novel done! More
My new website is up: www.rosannabattigelli.com My Easter book for children, Easter Morning, Easter Sun, has been released: https://youtu.be/XX65T5TYmRA (video) Pajama Press: https://pajamapress.ca/book/easter_morning_easter_sun/ Video: https://youtu.be/XX65T5TYmRA Free and downloadable... More
How exciting is this: a live literary event with people in attendance. That's what's in the works for Chester, NS, this coming July. And not one but three NS authors to present. https://www.facebook.com/zoevallelibrary More
A new film, released in February by McIntrye Media and Canadian Geographic, puts the east coast cod fishery collapse back in the spotlight, nearly three decades later. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the animated short film called "Last Fish, First Boat" recounts the 1992 cod moratorium... More
Sara de Waard celebrates her contract with DCB Books, an imprint of Cormorant Books for her young adult novel WHITE LIES, coming 2022. Sara anticipates a rewarding outcome of the publication which will enable her to work with underprivileged students on screenwriting, writing and improved mental... More
S.M. Freedman's The Day She Died, a mind-bending psychological thriller set in the glistening streets of Vancouver, will be published on April 27th 2021 by Dundurn Press and Tantor Media (audio). Praised by bestselling author Owen Laukkanen as "the best book I've read in I-don't-know-how-long," and... More
David Homel has taken the plunge. After 8 novels for adults and 5 for younger readers, he has just published a memoir, Lunging into the Underbrush. The underbrush of the self, of course. The book spans more than 50 years, from resistance to the Vietnam War to current meditations on Eros and... More
Since the start of the Covid lockdown, Wade Bell has had work in The Typescript (three issues), Eclectica Literary Magazine, Sulfur, Word City Monthly and Page 47 Literary Journal. A story is forthcoming in Lotus-eater, an English language magazine in Rome, Italy. As well, his book, In Barcelona,... More
Marie Prins's mid-grade, children's novel, The Girl From the Attic, was published by Common Deer Press, October 2020. It won Silver in their 2019 Uncommon Quest competition. More
GOLD IN THE SHADOW by Diana Hayes launches March 8, 2021 In the book’s introduction, Hayes tells us these poems were incubating while she worked for several years with Phyllis Webb on a catalogue of her paintings. These carefully crafted ghazals combine textures and themes from Webb’s canvases and... More
