Fiction (adult)

Jan Fancy Hull

Jan Fancy Hull lives and writes beside (and sometimes on) a quiet lake in Lunenburg County. She was born on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

In November 2021 she embarked on a series of Tim Brown Mysteries, which are set on Nova Scotia’s south shore. By the spring of 2026, ten full-length novels will have been launched.

Her debut non-fiction book, Where’s Home?, was published in 2020. She has published two books of short stories, The Church of Little Bo Peep and other stories, 2021, and Inquire Within, 2022.

All are available from the publisher, Moose House Publications, and most mega-vendors online.

Her poem, “Moss Meditations” was awarded the Rita Joe Poetry Prize in the 2022 Nova Writes literary competition. Other poems have been published in The Antigonish Review, in Gathering In, an anthology published by Windywood Publishing in 2020, and in a chapbook, What We All Want, with Janet Barkhouse and Cynthia French, 2024.

Before retiring (from steady paycheques), Jan served in various careers, enterprises, pursuits, and avocations, including as arts administrator, sailing tours skipper, and employee benefits broker. She created sculptures from Nova Scotian sandstone, is a member of the Lunenburg Art Gallery Society, and writes. She is a Member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia Writers’ Council.

She also likes to play golf, and drift on the lake in her kayak.

Facebook: Jan Fancy Hull / Jan Hull Stoneist;

Websites: janfancyhull.ca / thestoneist.com

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Ronan O’Driscoll

Originally from the West of Ireland, Ronan O’Driscoll moved to Chicago as a teenager in the 1980s. He returned to Ireland to study at University College Dublin where he graduated with a Masters in English literature. Ronan has travelled a good deal in Europe, America, Japan and Canada. He has found Irish music an important way to keep connected with his roots, and plays fiddle as a hobby. It was through learning tunes that he came to know of Francis O’Neill’s compelling life story and decided it should be popularized as a novel: Chief O’Neill.

Ronan currently lives in Halifax with his wife and family. He has written another novel, Poor Farm, about the experience of an autistic boy on a 19th-century Nova Scotia poor farm. Both his works of historical fiction are carefully researched stories from the past, focused on topics relevant and compelling for today’s readers.

Ronan is currently a senior software engineer at Wattpad, as well as having been an educator in Computer Programming at the Nova Scotia Community College.

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Dave Beynon

Originally from Britain, Dave Beynon moved to Canada as an infant, growing up on a farm north and west of Toronto. He has been a cow milker, a short order cook, a waiter, a residence manager at the Hamilton Downtown YMCA (there’s a novel waiting to be written about those four years), a factory worker and a purveyor of fine corrugated packaging and displays.

Dave writes fiction of varying genres and lengths. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies, periodicals, on-line and in podcasts. In 2011, his novel, The Platinum Ticket was shortlisted for the inaugural Terry Pratchett Prize.

Dave co-hosted a local cable TV show called Turning Pages, an in-depth interview show that highlights authors, writing and publishing.

He lives on the South Shore and should have been living there his whole life.

His work is represented by Ed Wilson of Johnson & Alcock.

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Genevieve Graham

Genevieve Graham moved to Nova Scotia in 2008 and fell in love with the integral history woven into every aspect of this province. Almost immediately, she realized how little she knew about the history, not only of this province but of all of Canada, and she embarked on a mission to correct that, using her love of historical fiction as a palette. All her novels have spent numerous weeks on the Canadian bestsellers list. Most recently, Genevieve focused her research and passion on the dark, little known story of Canada’s British Home Children in “The Forgotten Home Child”. Despite bookstore shutdowns across the country due to COVID-19, “The Forgotten Home Child” became an “instant #1 bestseller” and remained on that list for 19 weeks – 11 of those at #1. It achieved the #5 position in Canadian Fiction for 2020 and educated tens of thousands of readers about this vital part of our history.

Genevieve Graham is prolific and determined, dedicated to bringing Canadian history to life through the popular, mainstream market of commercial historical fiction. Having started writing relatively late in life (in her forties), she has already published five novels with Simon & Schuster Canada in five years, and is eager to keep on that same track for years to come.

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Sue Murtagh

Sue Murtagh (she/her) lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of the Alistair MacLeod mentorship program (Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia) and the Humber School for Writers, where she worked with mentor Danila Botha. Her writing has appeared in The Nashwaak Review, Grain, carte blanche, the Humber Literary Review, The New Quarterly, and yolkliterary.ca.

Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press published her debut short story collection, We’re Not Rich, in October 2024. Award-winning writer Alexander MacLeod edited the linked collection. The Walrus featured an excerpt from the book, a story called Extermination, in its print and digital editions.

Sue was the judge for the 2025 David Adams Richards prize in the New Brunswick Writers’ Federation’s annual writing competition.

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Tricia Snell

Tricia Snell writes books, stories, poems, essays/articles, and book reviews.

In summer, 2025, her story, “So Late in the Season,” will be published in an anthology, Not the Same Road Out (Tidewater Press, New Westminster, BC, Ed. K.J. Denny). Her story (fiction), “Out to the Horses,” was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize and published in Room Magazine (December 2019, Issue 42.4).

Past publications include a fiction chapbook, Nellie: An Imagined History (Little Books Collective, Lunenburg, NS, Sept. 2024) and a poetry chapbook, Rooted, published with the same micropress in 2023, and the nonfiction book / directory, Artists Communities, with Allworth Press in 1996 (2nd ed. 2000).

Her writing has also been published in Every Day Fiction, Art Papers, Oregon Humanities, The Oregonian, and The Grove Review, and been read by actor Barbara Rappaport on the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project / National Public Radio show, The Sound of Writing. She is currently working on a novel.

Tricia’s stories explore issues of identity, feminism, nature, work, music, and animals. Her background includes work as a writer and administrator for arts, education, and environmental organizations.

Tricia has taught writing workshops (generative, craft, and critique), literature courses, and novel study groups for a variety of universities, nonprofits, and community writing centres. She currently teaches from her home studio in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Tricia has an MFA (Fiction) from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) and an ARCT (Flute Performance) from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto, Ontario).

Tricia is also a musician. In her South Shore area of Nova Scotia, she plays flute & Celtic whistles for an actively gigging trio called Trillium.

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Maureen St. Clair

Maureen is an artist, peace educator, community facilitator, conflict resolution trainer, activist, writer and life-long learner.Maureen is deeply passionate about connections, entanglements, intersections, unravelling and weaving of relationships and the power of deep receptive compassionate listening in transforming interpersonal and community based conflict. As a collaborator, Maureen co-creates courageous inclusive spaces enabling people collectively to do the work of self and community building and healing with a social justice and trauma informed lens. Maureen’s novel, Big Island, Small was published by Fernwood Publishing in 2018 and won the Nova Scotia Atlantic Writers Award and the Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature.

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Amanda Peters

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaw and settler ancestry. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award (IVA) for unpublished prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers Trust Rising Stars program. Her debut novel The Berry Pickers won the 2023 Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize, the 2023 Carnegie Medal of Honour for Fiction, the Dartmouth Book Award, the People Choice Award in Romania and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Novel award. It was also shortlisted for the 2023 Writers Trust of Canada Atwood Gibson Award, and the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award from the Ontario Library Association. The novel has since gone on to be published in 23 different languages. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review, and fillingStation Magazine. Her short story collection Waiting for the Long Night Moon was published in the summer of 2024 and has been longlisted for hte 2026 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Her new novel The Birthing Tree will be published in September 2026. Amanda has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto and she is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico. Amanda teaches in the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia University. She lives and writes in the Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia with her fur babies Holly and Pook.