Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books: two novels, a collection of short stories and two children's books. Quintet, his most recent novel, won the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award. It received rave reviews from The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and The Halifax Herald. His children's book The Magic Compass is part of the Atlantic Collection, a project of the Nova Scotia Department of Education, which placed a copy of the title in every elementary school in Nova Scotia. For six years he was managing editor and publisher of the literary magazine Pottersfield Portfolio, and his short stories and translations have appeared in magazines and journals in Canada and Denmark, including Matrix, Pottersfield Portfolio and B&A. Douglas is past president of WFNS and an accomplished workshop leader in creative writing. For the past four years he has been writer-in-residence at Boularderie Elementary School, the only pilot project of its kind in the province. His forthcoming novel The Globe Thistle will be published in the autumn of 2010.
Archibald's Boo-boo. Illustration by Bruce John Brown. Solus
Publishing, 2002, ISBN: 1--896792-08-1
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of this book.
The Magic Compass. Solus Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-896792-05-7.
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Komodo Dragon in Water Studies, Ian Colford ed., Pottersfield
Press, 1998. ISBN 1-895900-12-3. Matrix, Pottersfield Portfolio, B&A.
Awards
2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize Quintet
Shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award Quintet
Finalist for the Theatre B.C. National Playwriting Competition for the play The Weaverbird.
Second place in the Atlantic Writing Competition for the novel A Deadly Harvest.
Douglas Arthur Brown is the author of five books: two novels, a collection of short stories and two children's books. Quintet, his most recent novel, won the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Dartmouth Book Award. It received rave reviews from The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and The Halifax Herald. His children's book The Magic Compass is part of the Atlantic Collection, a project of the Nova Scotia Department of Education, which placed a copy of the title in every elementary school in Nova Scotia. For six years he was managing editor and publisher of the literary magazine Pottersfield Portfolio, and his short stories and translations have appeared in magazines and journals in Canada and Denmark, including Matrix, Pottersfield Portfolio and B&A. Douglas is past president of WFNS and an accomplished workshop leader in creative writing. For the past four years he has been writer-in-residence at Boularderie Elementary School, the only pilot project of its kind in the province. His forthcoming novel The Globe Thistle will be published in the autumn of 2010. 
Awards