Community event

Join with us as we celebrate books written and published in Nova Scotia. We’ll present several Nova Scotia book awards, including the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, the George Borden Writing for Change Award, the Dartmouth Fiction Award, and the Margaret & John Savage First Book Awards (Fiction and Nonfiction).

King’s Co-op Bookstore will be on site with all nominated titles. Cash bar.

This writer’s circle is open to anyone (emerging to established) of any genre! During the Atlantic Book Awards and Festival, we spend a lot of time celebrating the final stages – this event will focus on those first steps! So, if you’re a writer working on something new, want to hear and give feedback on new work, come and share with other writers in the same boat! Attendance is free, but please register in advance at the link provided.

Hosted by Dartmouth Book Award Nominee, Charlene Carr!

Charlene Carr studied literature, attaining a BA and MA in English, including a study program at Oxford. She has published eleven novels, and her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, sold to HarperCollins Canada and three international publishers. It was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by CBC, shortlisted for multiple awards, and has been optioned for adaptation to the screen. Charlene received grants from Arts Nova Scotia and Canada Council for the Arts to write and revise her most recent novel, We Rip The World Apart. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband and daughters.

Every Little Thing: How Small Acts of Kindness Make a Big Impact.

Please join us for our first-ever morning author Meet and Greet with Janice Landry. Come sit and chat with us at this informal get-together.

Author Janice Landry was diagnosed with Lyme disease during the summer of 2023. Following her recovery, Landry realized that a small thing, a tiny tick, has had a big impact on her life. The author has deliberately woven the theme of small versus big throughout Every Little Thing via heartwarming stories of acts of kindness and connection. Landry proves in the end that the little things really are the big things.

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