Community event

Join Read by the Sea for another edition of Books on the Breeze, this time with children’s author Lana Shupe!

Lana’s workshop “Writing Picture Books with Heart” will explore the importance of the picture book as an age-defying genre. For more detailed workshop details, please visit the Facebook event.

This workshop is free to attend. Please register by emailing rjreadbythesea@gmail.com.

Books on the Breeze is presented by Read by the Sea in partnership with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, and supported by Arts Nova Scotia and the Access Copyright Foundation.

Join Read by the Sea for another edition of Books on the Breeze, this time with author Lana Shupe!

Lana is the author of The Lonely Little Lighthouse, The Hippie Pirates, The Little Church Beside the Sea, and The Book Witch, the Wee White Dog & the Little Free Library. This free, public reading event is for children, families, and the young at heart.

Books on the Breeze is presented by Read by the Sea in partnership with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, and supported by Arts Nova Scotia and the Access Copyright Foundation.

Nevermore Press is pleased to announce the launch of piyyut, a book of poetry by Solomon Nagler. The evening will include multimedia performances as well as readings. All are welcome.
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Solomon Nagler is a poet and filmmaker originally from Winnipeg, Canada. Allegorical in form, his work is composed of fragments of recognizable reality that commingle with the raw matter of hallucination and nascent form. His work also includes 16mm celluloid installations that engage with sculpture and experimental architecture in galleries and public space. He is currently a professor of film production at NSCAD University in Halifax.

Share your writing with us or just come listen. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction all are welcome!

What can you expect?
Doors open around 6:45 for this PWYC event. Slot signup on-site. This is a great place to practice public reading and test out new work in a friendly group of like-minded creatives. We always have a good time, lots of applause and laughs.

The bar is open, and there’s limited (order-in) food service.

The venue is mostly on one level but there are three stairs to get to the washroom. The front door isn’t automatic, please knock if you need assistance!

Scholarships support emerging Nova Scotian artists undertaking artistic development studies. This application deadline (5pm Atlantic) is for studies beginning in fall/winter.

The Atlantic Book Awards Society board has the mandate “to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events.” During the upcoming AGM, the board will review last year’s festival and look ahead to this year’s festival, May 29 to June 5.

Interested in attending? Please email atlanticbookawardsfestival@gmail.com

Shean Poets & Writers invite you to an afternoon of poetry. Put a poem in your pocket and bring it along. Be it haiku or lyric, free verse or rhyme, traditional or modern, funny or sad, seasoned or shy, we’d love to have you join us. Questions: tpmvfh@gmail.com

Join Read by the Sea for another edition of Books on the Breeze, this time with national best-selling author, screenwriter, and columnist Lesley Crewe!

Lesley will be reading from her recent work Death & Other Inconveniences (Vagrant Press 2024), followed by a Q&A session.

This reading is free and open to the public.

Books on the Breeze is presented by Read by the Sea in partnership with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, and supported by Arts Nova Scotia and the Access Copyright Foundation.

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD) is the annual day when readers, writers, illustrators, publishers, and others come together to celebrate indie bookstores across Canada. By joining the celebration, you are advocating for independent businesses, supporting a flourishing bookselling community, and investing in Canadian culture.

We will have a brand new scavenger hunt for the kids. Completed scavenger hunts will get a free picture book, while supplies last. See the first table upon entering for details and prizes.
Customers with purchases of over $50- (before taxes) will get their choice of a mystery book, while supplies last. (Mystery books are different from our Blind Dates books. Mystery books have the genre on the front along with a quote from inside the book.)

We will also have a table set up with 20% off new local books as marked.

We will also be participating with 8 other HRM Independent Bookstores in a “passport” that day. (See the main event.)

We hope to see you Saturday, April 26th, between 10am and 6pm!