Join Marjorie Simmins on Saturday, May 31 (10:30am – 12pm), at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax) for the launch of In Search of Puffins: Stories of Loss, Light and Flight (Pottersfield Press, 2025). The event includes a reading and book signings with cash sales.
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia office is a wheelchair-accessible venue with a wheelchair-accessible, non-gendered washroom. For assistance finding the WFNS office door, see our map of the area.
In Search of Puffins: Stories of Loss, Light and Flight is the third memoir in a series that began with Coastal Lives and Year of the Horse. In it, author Marjorie Simmins honours her late husband, Silver Donald Cameron, and all those who recreate themselves after loss. It’s also a profoundly optimistic book, believing in the healing powers of friendship, laughter, and time.
Marjorie Simmins is an award-winning author, journalist, and teacher. She has written five nonfiction books and has written for newspapers and magazines across Canada and in the United States. Now based in Truro, Nova Scotia, Simmins offers writing workshops in person, around the Maritimes and across Canada, as well conducting as Zoom workshops, from Coast to Coast (always hoping to find Northern writers).