Nonfiction (adult)

Peter Moreira

Peter Moreira’s controversial book Backwater: Nova Scotia’s Economic Decline was the culmination of more than 30 years in journalism in Asia, Europe the U.S. and Canada. He was a Senior Correspondent in London with Bloomberg, and covered banking for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. A veteran of the Canadian Press parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, he has written for the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the National Post and Independent on Sunday (London). Having also published Hemingway on the China Front, Moreira is now writing The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr. and the Downfall of the Third Reich.

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Philip Moscovitch

I am a freelance writer, editor, and audio producer with a passion for tellng stories.

My book Adventures in Bubbles and Brine (Formac, 2019) explores Nova Scotia fermentation traditions (everything from craft beer to sauerkraut) and the people reviving and reinventing them. Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Heart of the Plate, says it is a “beautifully written book – which is at once a travel memoir, a weave of lore, histories, and personal tales, and an inspiring recipe collection.” Author and fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz (The Art of Fermentation) calls it “a beautiful window into the culture of fermentation in Nova Scotia! Philip Moscovitch introduces us to old timers carrying on traditions, and to leaders of the province’s contemporary fermentation revival.”

I have been publishing non-fiction for more than 25 years. My work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The Walrus, Saltscapes, Reader’s Digest, The Globe and Mail, The Gazette (Montreal), Halifax Magazine, East Coast Living, The Halifax Examiner, DAL Magazine, The Coast, Atlantic Books Today, My Halifax Experience, American Craft, Atlantic Co-operator, Canadian Co-operator, Tablet, Best Health, Shambhala Sun, Concordia Magazine, Maroon and White (SMU), Queen’s Alumni Review, York U Magazine, Equinox (remember Equinox?), Farm Credit Canada Express, OpenFile, Optimyz, Canadian Screenwriter, Playback, The Big Frame, Canadian Bar Association National magazine, Les carrières de l’ingénierie, and Les carrières du droit.

I have contributed essays to the non-fiction books Dogs With Jobs, Saltlines, and Look Ahead, Get Ahead: Growing Career Opportunities for Technicians and Technologists (this one was a lot more fun than it sounds).

For five years, I was the editor of Canadian Screenwriter magazine, and I’ve been a writer and story editor for several documentaries. As an audio producer, my work has aired both regionally and nationally on CBC Radio.

While my focus is mostly non-fiction, I have also published short fiction and poetry, and for 14 years I wrote the beloved Daisy Dreamer comic for Chickadee magazine.

My interests are broad. I’ve written about everything from professional wrestling to mental health, and from food to art. My short feature Small-town Smackdown,written for The Walrus, was a National Magazine Award finalist.

I recently graduated from the University of King’s College MFA in Creative Non-fiction program, and am working on a book about new understandings of serious mental illness, as well as a longer upper-elementary fantasy graphic novel series.

In addition to my work in fiction and non-fiction, I am also available to write for organizations in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. My clients have included the National Film Board, the Canadian Labour Congress, and numerous independent film producers.

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donalee Moulton

donalee Moulton has been writing professionally for over 25 years. Her byline has appeared in more than 100 magazines and newspapers throughout North America – and beyond. Among the publications donalee has written for are The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Canadian Business and The National Post.

donalee Moulton’s first mystery book Hung out to Die was published in 2023. A historical mystery, Conflagration!, was published in 2024. It won the 2024 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense (Historical Fiction). donalee has two new books in 2025, Bind and Melt, the first in a new series, the Lotus Detective Agency.

A short story “Swan Song” was one of 21 selected for publication in Cold Canadian Crime. It was shortlisted for an Award of Excellence. Other short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. donalee’s short story “Troubled Water” was shortlisted for a 2024 Derringer Award and a 2024 Award of Excellence from the Crime Writers of Canada.

As well, donalee is the author of the non-fiction book The Thong Principle: Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say, and co-author of Better Policy | Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy and Celebrity Court Cases: Trials of the Rich and Famous.

donalee has had poetry published in Arc Poetry Journal, Queen’s Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, Atlantis, South Shore Review, Carousel, and Whetstone, among others. She is a former editor of The Pottersfield Portfolio and Atlantic Books Today.

donalee is a teacher. She has taught writing, editing, grammar and communications for the past 20 years in a variety of programs. She currently teaches numerous writing and editing courses as part of the Executive and Professional Development program at Saint Mary’s University, and has taught courses at Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University.

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Don MacLean

Don MacLean was born in Gabarus Lake on Cape Breton Island. He attended St.Francis Xavier University (BSc., 1976) and Memorial University (MSc., 1985). He works as a fisheries biologist in Nova Scotia.

Don writes on a variety of outdoor related topics as well as traditional crafts from wood carving to canoe building. His articles have appeared in Atlantic Salmon Journal, Saltscapes, Eastern Woods and Waters, Canadian Fly Fisher, Northwoods Sporting Journal, Outdoor Canada, Atlantic Boating News and Fly Tyer. He is the author of two books. Don’s weekly newspaper columns on sportfishing and the outdoors appears in the Cape Breton Post, New Glasgow News, Truro Daily News and the Antigonish Casket.

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Bob Kroll

Bob Kroll has been writing professionally for more than thirty-five years. His work includes books, stage plays, radio dramas, TV documentaries, as well as historical docu-dramas for Canadian and American museums. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Born New Haven, CT. Graduated Providence College and St. Thomas University.

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Carole Glasser Langille

Carole Glasser Langille is the author of 5 books of poetry, 2 collections of short stories, 2 children’s books and a non-fiction book “Doing Time: Writing Workshops in Prison.”

Her second book of poetry, In Cannon Cave, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1997, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 1998. “I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are,” her second collection of short stories, was nominated for the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction. Her children’s book, Where the Wind Sleeps, was the Canadian Children’s Book Center Choice in 1996.

Several selections from Carole Glasser Langille’s book of poetry, Late In A Slow Time, have been adapted to music by renowned Canadian composer Chan Ka Nin. The production, also called Late In A Slow Time debuted at the 2006 Sound Symposium in St. John’s, Newfoundland and will be on Duo Concertante’s forthcoming CD.

Originally from New York City, where she studied with the poets John Ashbery and Carolyn Forche among others, Carole now lives in Black Point, Nova Scotia.

She has taught at The Humber School for Writing Summer Program, Maritime Writer’s Workshop, the Community of Writers in Tatamagouche, and at Women’s Words the University of Alberta. She has taught Creative Writing at Mount Saint Vincent University, Writing for the Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and currently teaches Creative Writing: Poetry at Dalhousie University.

Carole has given poetry readings in Athens, Delhi, Prague, London England, New York City, Kirkcudbright Scotland, and throughout Canada. She has received Canada Council Grants for poetry, non-fiction and fiction as well as Nova Scotia Cultural Arts grants for poetry and fiction.

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Bretton Loney

Bretton Loney is a novelist and non-fiction writer who has published three novels and one biography. His 2015 biography, Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story, and his first novel, The Last Hockey Player, a dystopian story published in 2018, were nominated for Whistler Independent Book Awards.

In 2022 he published the novel Joe Howe’s Ghost, a paranormal political thriller.

In 2025 Bretton independently published his third novel, Unsettling Time, a murder mystery set in 1749 amid the first days of the new colony of Halifax.

Bretton is a native of Bow Island, Alberta and has undergraduate degrees from the University of Lethbridge and the University of King’s College in Halifax. He lives in Halifax with his wife, Karen Shewbridge.

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Lezlie Lowe

Lezlie Lowe is a freelance writer, broadcaster and researcher.

The native Haligonian has worked as a writer and editor for Halifax weekly paper The Coast since 1995. She’s a weekly columnist for the Chronicle Herald, long-form documentary-maker for CBC radio and active freelancer.

Lezlie teaches feature writing and creative nonfiction at the University of King’s College and coordinates the first-year Foundations of Journalism class.

She has worked as principal researcher on documentary films for Life Network, the Independent Film Channel and Bravo and was the recipient of a 2004 Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada honourable mention for Commentary and two Gold Awards for Feature Writing at the Atlantic Journalism Awards.

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Frank Macdonald

Frank Macdonald is a writer living with his partner, artist Virginia McCoy, in his hometown of Inverness, Cape Breton, returning there after fulfilling his mandatory tour of duty in plants, factories, construction work and fast food cooking in other parts of North America. He earns his living as a columnist and reporter with The Inverness Oran, a weekly newspaper, and has won journalism awards for both his humourous/satirical weekly columns and his editorial writing.

When not escaping into the works of other writers, Frank tackles his literary interests, most notably the novel. His first novel, A Forest for Calum (Cape Breton University Press) was published in 2005, and was nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award, and was long-listed for IMPAC-Dublin Award. His second novel, A Possible Madness (Cape Breton University Press-2012) was nominated for Dartmouth Book Award and was also long-listed for the IMPAC-Dublin Award.

In 2010 Cape Breton University Press published a children’s novella, T.R.’s Adventure at Angus the Wheeler’s, illustrated by artist Virginia McCoy.

In 2011, his one-act play, Her Wake won Best Canadian Production at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival.

In 2014, his third novel, Tinker & Blue was published (Cape Breton University Press).

He has also published two collections of newspaper/magazine columns, Assuming I’m Right (Cecibu 1990) and How To Cook Your Cat (Cecibu-2003). In 1992-4 Mulgrave Road Theatre produced and toured a one-man play written by Macdonald depicting a day in the life of a newspaper columnist, based on the first collection of columns and also titled Assuming I’m Right.

Macdonald has also had poems published in a number of journals, as well a short stories, and song lyrics have been arranged and recorded by musicians. Frank has given public reading on numerous occasions for numerous occasions ranging from the CBC to the school classroom.

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Jennifer Hatt

Jennifer Hatt is a former newspaper reporter and editor who brings words to life for periodicals, corporate clients, fiction lovers and students of all ages. She has written articles for a variety of national and regional trade magazines and since 2010 has completed three novels in her Finding Maria series. She is also a participant in the Writers in the School program, instructing grades 3-9 on the elements and rewards of creating their own newsletters, and has developed and taught communications and writing skills programs for the Nova Scotia Community College and the Nova Scotia School of Fisheries.

Jennifer’s debut novel, Finding Maria, was a semifinalist in the Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book of 2012. She has won the Thompson Newspapers Award of Excellence for Canadian Newspapers, circulation under 15,000, non-deadline writing, for “The Silent Thief”, depicting the struggle of two men to cope with the slow loss of their wives to Alzheimer Disease. She is also the Thompson Newspapers Award of Excellence winner for East Coast Newspapers, circulation under 12,000, for “Double Vision”, an exploration of the battle over herbicide use in Nova Scotia forests. Jennifer was part of the news team that in 1992 received the Thomson North American award for coverage of the Westray Mine disaster.

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