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Atlantic Canada's only portal for information on writers and books in the region. If you're involved in literature in the Atlantic Provinces, send your links for free addition to the site. News from publishers and writers is also welcome. Use the e-mail address on the right to send any news and links.
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Atlantic Books - About the authors, books, publishers, and books stores of Atlantic Canada.
Atlantic Canada's only portal for information on writers and books in the region. If you're involved in literature in the Atlantic Provinces, send your links for free addition to the site. News from publishers and writers is also welcome. Use the e-mail address on the right to send any news and links.
NEWS
 June 14 , 2010 - Atlantic Author Day Events will be held on June 26th in the four Atlantic Provinces for writers featured in the Atlantic Summer Reading Guide from Atlantic Books Today. See here for schedules. |
May 15, 2010 - Book Release / Review Paul Marlowe's Knights of the Sea: A Grim Tale of Murder, Politics, and Spoon Addiction has been released, and reviewed in the Telegraph Journal. Fantasyliterature.com called the book "Drily hilarious... reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s lighter works..." |
 The Glass Harmonica by Russell Wangersky will be launched with a reading and signing in St. John's on Tuesday May 4 at 7PM at The Ship Inn, 265 Duckworth St., St. John’s |
 April 1, 2010 - Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) Libris AwardsLinden MacIntyre is shortlisted for this year's Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) Libris Awards for The Bishop’s Man. |
 April 1, 2010 - Upcoming Events The 2010 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival has released its schedule of free book events - signings, readings, launches, and discussions - taking place in Atlantic Canada during the festival. See here for detailed listings for each province. |
| March 12, 2010 Mitchell & Crummey make the final of Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Caribbean and Canada Region: Shandi Mitchell from Canada won Best First Book for Under This Unbroken Sky and Michael Crummey from Canada won Best Book for Galore. |
| March 2, 2010 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist Released Shortlists for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award, Atlantic Poetry Prize, Dartmouth Book Awards, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Prize for Non-fiction, Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. |
 New Brunswick writer K.V. Johansen has been invited to be a guest at the 2010 Skopje International Book Fair in April 2010 in Macedonia, where she will be launching the Macedonian-language translation of her book Torrie and the Snake-Prince (Тори и принцот-змија). Johansen will also, in April, be launching the latest volume of her award-winning Warlocks of Talverdin series, The Shadow Road, in Vienna Austria. |
 New Brunswick writer Paul Marlowe's radio play The Resident Member will be featured on KFAI-FM February 28, 2010, along with background from Joe Vaz on the making of the play (and the podcast of the broadcast will be available worldwide throughhttp://www.kfai.org/soundaffectsaradioplayground/ ). You can download an mp3 of the radio play itself at www.paulmarlowe.com |
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