
Author spotlight: Jan Fancy Hull
Jan Fancy Hull’s “Moss Meditations” won the 2022 Rita Joe Poetry Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.
Jan Fancy Hull’s “Moss Meditations” won the 2022 Rita Joe Poetry Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.
Our 2022 Poetry in Motion program is flowing right along! This year’s jury met on July 25 to review nearly
Libby Broadbent’s “Seventh Son” won the 2022 Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.
Jodie Callaghan is from the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Gespe’gewa’gi (Quebec). She started writing stories when she was 8
Monika Dutt’s “Foundations” won the 2022 H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.
Amy Jones is a novelist, editor, and creative writing instructor and mentor. She is the author of the novels Every Little
Charlene Carr has independently published nine novels. Her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, has sold to HarperCollins Canada, Sourcebooks
Luke Hathaway is a trans poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He is
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is based in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725.
The treaties do not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognize Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and establish the rules for an ongoing relationship between nations.
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