Community event

Come share your works in progress with fellow writers in a safe and welcoming space on the first Friday of every month.

Feel free to come by for a drink and to just listen to other writer’s works, too.

Each reader is allotted up to 7-10 minutes of reading time, depending on turnout.

Grab a drink and join a lively discussion about our August book club pick, Jamie Burnet’s milktooth.

No registration in advance–just bring yourself, your copy of milktooth, and your thoughts!

Come join our Sunday Signing series and have a coffee with Jaime Burnet.

While you’re here, grab a personally autographed copy of Jaime Burnet’s recently published book, milktooth.

Please join the Friends of the Halifax Public Gardens and members of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Nova Scotia Region for an afternoon of readings from Jane Austen’s work, including passages from Pride and Prejudice and other novels.

Readers include Janet Brush, Charlene Carr, Sheree Fitch, Darcy Johns, Sheila Johnson Kindred, Hugh Kindred, Stephens Gerard Malone, Jan Parker-Gidman, Anne Thompson, Carole Thompson, and the Rev’d Canon Dr. Paul Friesen, Rector of St. Paul’s Church. MC: Sarah Emsley. Adria Jackson, harpist, will provide music from Austen’s time.

Join local romance authors Cathryn Fox and Nicole Northwood for ‘Romance Reimagined’, a Bookstore Romance Day event at Dartmouth Book Exchange.

Cathryn and Nicole will delve into what it means to craft female characters who break rules and challenge perceptions, while exploring

• the evolving portrayal of female protagonists in romance fiction;
• society’s double standards around women reading and writing romance; and
• why taboo love stories and bold heroines resonate more than ever.

Whether you’re a lifelong fan of love stories or just discovering the genre, come for the conversation and ‘reimagine romance’ at Dartmouth Book Exchange on August 17 from 3-5pm.

Join us for a very special Open Mic Afternoon! Are you a writer? Are you a literary enthusiast? Come read for us and find an audience for your work or show your appreciation for your favourite author or poet. Please send us a message if you’d like to participate.

You can expect an appreciative audience and a welcoming atmosphere either in our spacious backyard (weather permitted) or in the store. Either way, it promised to be an fantastic evening or literary goodness!

If you have published work you’d like to sell at the event, be sure to mention it when you contact us.