Community event

King’s announces its first Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA program.

This year’s theme is curation. The Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference will address how storytelling drives curation, and how curation functions as storytelling. Whether via edited anthologies, deeply researched pieces, telling forgotten stories, or first-person narratives, writers are continuously engaging in the craft of curation, drawing on and re-arranging fragments of a larger story to fashion works that enable new perspectives and create deepened understanding.

Non-fiction writing prioritizes facts over the imagined, but stories based in the real world can be as fast-paced and fascinating as fantasy! Join Nova Scotia Book Award nominees in an evening of reading and conversation on writing non-fiction. These nominated titles shine a light on the environment, art, culture, medicine, chronic illness, disability justice, grief, and family.

Thursday May 29th, 7PM in Alumni Hall

Hosted by: Simon Thibault

Featuring:

Martin Bauman, Hell of a Ride, Pottersfield Press
Andrea Currie, Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, Arsenal Pulp Press
OmiSoore H. Dryden, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation, Fernwood Publishing
Dean Jobb, A Gentleman and a Thief, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Bee Stanton, Atlantic Ghosts, Nimbus Publishing

Discover your summer reading list during the weeklong Atlantic Book Awards Festival, May 29 to June 5. The festival features a range of online and in-person events with the authors shortlisted for the provincial and regional awards, which collectively are worth more than $55,000.

On Thursday, June 5, the five Atlantic book awards will be presented, including one of Canada’s biggest book prizes, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award valued at $30,000. The Atlantic Book Awards gala, takes place at 7 p.m. at Paul O’Regan Hall in Halifax Central Library, with CBC Television host Amy Smith as emcee.

Please join us for a poetry reading with internationally acclaimed poet stephanie roberts from her latest collection UNMET (Biblioasis Books), a lyrical collection that explores rescue, justice, and love. The Miramichi Reader recently said of this collection, “I love that she lets her wit into the rooms she builds as well as her frustration, anger, fear, humour, tenderness and hope.”

stephanie will be joined by local poet Annick MacAskill.

Join us for a drop-in activity session hosted by local author Vivian Zhou. Spend the afternoon colouring and chatting with Vivian about the release of her new book Atana and the Jade Mermaid. Hope to see you there!

Back by popular demand, The Shadow in the Window: Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia

An abandoned house with shadowy windows, a hand that floats in the air, a grey lady that vanishes…these are the “things” that have been witnessed along Nova Scotia’s shores. Join storyteller Cindy Campbell-Stone for this spine-tingling performance of unexplained encounters in folklore.

Advanced registration will be required by purchase of a $10- gift certificate to monitor our numbers. Gift certificates can be purchased in person, credit card by phone at 902-435-1207 or by etransfer at dbex1187@gmail.com

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!