Author Spotlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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