Member event

A three-day retreat on the shores of the Northumberland Strait. Open to emerging and established writers. Includes one-on-one chats with author and journalist Marjorie Simmins to identify your writing strengths and goals, as well as group discussions related to the craft of non-fiction. Lots of time for beach walks, the Farmers’ Market, and exploring the seaside town. For more details: mls@marjoriesimmins.ca

Wanda Campbell will launch her latest poetry collection, Spring Theory (Pottersfield Press) at the Acadia University Art Gallery in Wolfville on Thursday, September 18, at 7pm. The book travels from fall’s darkness to spring’s light with poems inspired by Alex Colville’s images of the Annapolis Valley, prose poem tributes to Canadian writers, and the lost sonnets of “Dementia Diary Down Under” that delve into the unpredictable experiences of aging relatives. Campbell has published five other poetry collections and a novel, Hat Girl. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Acadia.

Cash-only book table.

Join Donna Jones Alward (Ship of Dreams) and Renée Belliveau (A Sense of Things Beyond) at the Halifax Central Library for a conversation about their new releases. Books will be available for purchase and signing from Bookmark.

Donna Jones Alward will be on hand chatting about her new title, Ship of Dreams, and signing copies at The Curious Cat Tea & Books in Antigonish.

Come join us as author Sarah Emsley reads from her novel The Austens.

Sunday, September 14th, 2-4pm
Free Admission
Books will be available for purchase.
Light refreshments will be served.

Praise for The Austens:

“Deeply researched and lovingly imagined.”
– Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

“Emsley breathes wondrous new life into those magical years when Jane was blossoming into one of the world’s greatest novelists, while Fanny’s life unfurled with marriage, children, and travel.”
– Devoney Looser, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

“Painstakingly crafted and enthrallingly plotted.”
– George Elliott Clarke, author of Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir

“Brimming with intelligence, empathy, and pathos.”
– Syrie James, author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

Come join our Sunday Signing series and grab a coffee with the author and illustrator Briana Corr Scott.

While you’re here, grab a personally autographed copy of Briana Corr Scott’s various books–– including the Anne of Green Gables bind-up with her beautiful cover illustration, which is Open Book Coffee’s September book club pick.

Donna Jones Alward will be signing copies of her new title, Ship of Dreams, from 12:30-2 p.m. at the New Minas Coles on September 13.

Donna Jones Alward will be signing copies of her new title, Ship of Dreams, as well as When the World Fell Silent, on September 12 from 5-7 p.m.

Join poets Brian Bartlett, Alyda Faber, Jessica Hiemstra, Cory Lavender, and Margo Wheaton, along with pianist Behrooz Mihankhah, for an evening of poetry and music exploring family in all its forms.

Launch and reading in the beautiful venue of LaHave River Books. On Hammet Shore is a poignant tale of living, loving, and departing, inspired in part by the author’s great-uncle’s journal entries. Published by Askance.

Shelagh’s earlier novels include Pearls in the Ashes and Colour Studies.