Community event

On Hiroshima Day, NS Voice of Women are opening a poster display at Halifax City Hall in the ‘Halifax Room.’ We are inviting all writers to come share a poem on the themes of Hiroshima, peace, and/or disarmament. A signup sheet for readers will be available onsite.

• 9:00 AM: Opening of Poster Exhibit
  • Poetry
  • Interactive Activities
  • Light Refreshments
• 11:30 AM: Flag Raising & Proclamation
• 12:00 PM: Bells for Hiroshima

Join us for the full exhibit on August 6, 7, or 8 (9:00 AM – 2:00 PM). Admission is free and open to all.

Join us for an informal Saturday morning author Meet & Greet with the Potterfield Prize Winners for Creative Nonfiction!

The first-place winners of the Seventh Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction were co-authors James MacDuff and Mirriam Mweemba for The Illogical Adventure, and second-place was Matthew R. Anderson for Someone Else’s Saint.

The Illogical Adventure recounts the story of an unlikely cross-cultural, cross-continental romance between two independent-minded travellers during the Covid pandemic and beyond. Mirriam Mweemba is from the small village of Batoka in Zambia, and James MacDuff is a Maritimer who grew up in Moncton and has called Halifax home for over twenty years. The memoir is told from each of their perspectives in an alternating fashion.

In Someone Else’s Saint, seasoned walker and historian Matthew Anderson, hoping to uncover the elusive Saint Ninian, treks the traditional Scottish pilgrim ways associated with the saint, only to find that the trail leads to Nova Scotia, where Ninian’s story intertwines with Acadian, Mi’kmaw, Loyalist, and Gaelic history. Matthew R. Anderson grew up in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, spent almost 35 years in Montreal and now lives in Pomquet, Nova Scotia.

Our next book club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23rd, at 6:30 p.m. Please keep in mind the date change: it is the 4th Wednesday of the month and not the usual 3rd.

Our book club is unique. Please read the following:

• Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket, and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally, and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.

Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors

NS Writers for Palestine – Come Create with Us!

As part of @inclusivestorytime‘s NS Grief and Solidarity for Palestine Quilt, create a written word square to be included in the NS Writers for Palestine Quilt. The resulting artwork will be raffled off, with proceeds going to aid funds for Palestinians. You can drop off a square you made at home, or come create one in a collaborative community space.

Poetry or prose can be transferred to fabric via embroidery, fabric markers, heat transfer paper, or other mechanisms. We will have some supplies onsite, but feel free to bring supplemental:

• Fabric (precut into 10″ by 10″ blocks, or not)
• Pens/markers/paint
• Embroidery thread/needles
• Irons, heat transfer paper
• Letter stencils, buttons, sequins, felt, fuse
  fabric
• Fabric shears, rotary cutters, cutting mats, rulers
• Typewriters
• Scrap paper, pens, pencils

Contact Lindsey Harrington (@lindseyharringtonwriter or lindseyharrington@tutamail.com) for more info!

The Egg Poets Collective — Ambrose Albert, Spencer Folkins, Jamie Kitts, and Emma Rhodes — will be coming down from their writing retreat at Jampolis Cottage for an evening of reading, discussion, and books!

A guided discussion about portraying characters and settings other than your own in your writing.

“Write What You Know” is a much propelled direction when it comes to writing, but what about exploring new horizons? Writing about what we don’t know is tricky though if we don’t want to step on anyone’s toes. Come and join our group discussion. Subjects covered will include removing generalizations, stereotypes, and personal biases, inclusive language, sensitivity readers, and being brave!