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Atlantic Book Awards Winners Announced
Monday, June 10, 2019 - 2:13pm

The lights went out and the the lights went on, and the 13 winners of the 2019 Atlantic BookAwards were announced Thursday night in a gala ceremony held in St, John’s, NL at the Sheraton Hotel. Hosted by CBC’s Angela Antle in a bilingual ceremony, the awards concluded this year’s festival, which ran from May 30 to June 6 with events in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 
 

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Announcing the Nova Writes winners
Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 11:00am

Nova Writes, the WFNS’s competition for unpublished manuscripts, is thriving, with 45 per cent more entries than last year. All of our readers and judges remarked on the high quality of entries this year.

We rely on the expertise of our members to provide meaningful feedback to our entrants who are judged blind. Thank you for the care and commitment provided by this year’s 13 readers and four judges. A big thank you also to Annick MacAskill, the WFNS’s programming and membership officer, for organizing the competition. It’s a massive job.

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Atlantic Book Awards Festival Line-up
Monday, May 6, 2019 - 2:44pm

In honor of the 2019 Atlantic Book Awards, a number of events are happening in the days before the Atlantic Book Awards Gala on Thursday, June 6, 7 pm at the Sheraton Hotel in St. John's, Newfoundland. Gala tickets are $20 each, and are available through Eventbrite. 

*authors nominated for the WFNS's awards and/or WFNS members are noted in bold

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Announcing the shortlists for the Atlantic Book Awards
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 3:09pm

The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 13 different book prizes that make up the 2019 Atlantic Book Awards. The nominated titles represent a wide range of books from Atlantic Canada—everything from the story of a well-known blind mechanic to the biography of 22 Minutes comedian Mark Critch. The full shortlist is below.
 

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Author Spotlight: Tom Ryan
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 10:46am

Young adult author Tom Ryan is a previous Lambda Literary Fellow whose books have been nominated for the White Pine Award, the Stellar Award, and the Hackmatack Award. In addition to a number of young adult novels, he published his first children’s picture book, A Giant Man from a Tiny Town: A Story of Angus MacAskill, with Nimbus in the fall of 2018. Ryan divides his time between Cape Breton and Ontario.

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Author Spotlight: Evelyn C. White
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 12:41pm

Evelyn C. White is a journalist and author whose books include Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985) and the biography Alice Walker: A Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004).

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Upcoming Programming

First Words: Fiction
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 7:00pm to Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 9:00pm
Writing Picture Books
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax
Thursday, June 13, 2019 - 6:00pm to Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 9:00pm
Portrait Sessions with Nicola Davison
RBC Learning Centre Third Floor Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road Halifax, NS B3J 1E9
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 9:00am to 8:30pm
The Alchemy of Purposeful Memoir: Seeking Joy
Wolfville Memorial Library, 21 Elm Avenue, Wolfville
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
$79.00
The Art of Writing Summer Camp I
NSCAD University Port Campus Room 208 1107 Marginal Road, Halifax
Monday, July 15, 2019 - 9:00am to Friday, July 19, 2019 - 4:15pm
The Art of Writing Summer Camp II
NSCAD University Port Campus Room 208 1107 Marginal Road, Halifax
Monday, July 22, 2019 - 9:00am to Friday, July 26, 2019 - 4:15pm

Community Events

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Jun 23 2019 - 2:00pm
Laurie Glenn Norris Book Launch
Jun 24 2019 - 6:30pm
Polish Your Speaking Skills: Creatively Speaking Toastmasters
Jun 29 2019 - 4:00pm
Reading Where We Live:A Celebration of Local Writing

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