Author Spotlights

Author Spotlight: Jill MacLean
Three of Jill MacLean’s five novels for middle-graders and young adults won the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic

Author Spotlight: Michelle Wamboldt
Michelle Wamboldt grew up in Truro and now lives on the beautiful South Shore where she watches the waves

Author spotlight: Jan Fancy Hull
Jan Fancy Hull’s “Moss Meditations” won the 2022 Rita Joe Poetry Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.

Author spotlight: Libby Broadbent
Libby Broadbent’s “Seventh Son” won the 2022 Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.

Author spotlight: Jodie Callaghan
Jodie Callaghan is from the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Gespe’gewa’gi (Quebec). She started writing stories when she was

Author spotlight: Monika Dutt
Monika Dutt’s “Foundations” won the 2022 H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.

Author spotlight: Amy Jones
Amy Jones is a novelist, editor, and creative writing instructor and mentor. She is the author of the novels Every

Author spotlight: Charlene Carr
Charlene Carr has independently published nine novels. Her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, has sold to HarperCollins Canada,

Author spotlight: Luke Hathaway
Luke Hathaway is a trans poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He

Author spotlight: Briony Merritt
Briony Merritt’s “Blackfriars Bridge” won the 2022 Budge Wilson Short Fiction Prize in our annual Nova Writes Competition.

Author spotlight: Michelle Butler Hallett
Michelle Butler Hallett, she/her, is a history nerd and disabled person who writes fiction about violence, evil, love, and

Author spotlight: Lezlie Lowe
Lezlie Lowe is a Halifax-based freelance journalist, broadcaster, and author who has an abiding fascination with flipping on the

Author spotlight: Alexander MacLeod
Alexander MacLeod is a fiction writer and a professor of English and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University.

Author spotlight: Sharon Robart-Johnson
Sharon Robart-Johnson’s background is comprised of both African and European ancestry. Her European roots reach beyond the Expulsion of

Author spotlight: Annick MacAskill
Annick MacAskill’s most recent poetry collection is Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022). She is also the author of No

Author spotlight: David Huebert
A settler writer, educator, and critic from Kjipuktuk (Halifax), David Huebert (he/him) teaches literature and creative writing at The