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Jeanne Dugas of Acadia Around Nova Scotia

Posted by Laura Bast on September 16, 2013

*Le français suit*

Cassie Deveaux Cohoon will be presenting her new novel, Jeanne Dugas of Acadia, all around Nova Scotia next week, beginning with Word on the Street this Sunday. The book is a fictionalized account of the incredible story of Jeanne Dugas, an Acadian woman who lived through the extraordinary events of 18th-century Acadia. All presentations will be in English and French.

You can find more info about the novel here and read an excerpt here.

Halifax
Sunday, September 22, 11 am
The Word on the Street, Halifax Waterfront

West Pubnico
Monday, September 23, 7 pm
Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos

Pointe-De-l’Église
Tuesday, September 24, 7 pm
Centre acadien, Université Sainte-Anne

Grand-Pré
Wednesday, September 25, 2.30 pm
Grand-Pré National Historic Site

Cassie Deveaux Cohoon, auteure du roman Jeanne Dugas of Acadia, fera des présentations de son roman la semaine prochaine. Jeanne Dugas of Acadia raconte l’histoire incroyable d’une femme acadienne qui a vécu pendant la 18e siècle. Le roman est en anglais mais les présentations seront en anglais et en français.

Trouver plus d’information sur le roman ici et lire un extrait ici.

Halifax
dimanche le 22 septembre, 11h
The Word on the Street, sur le quai près du Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

West Pubnico
lundi le 23 septembre, 19h
Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos

Pointe-De-l’Église
mardi le 24 septembre, 19h
Centre acadien, Université Sainte-Anne

Grand-Pré
mercredi le 25 septembre, 14h30

Lieu historique national de Grand-Pré

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Reviews of Me & Mr. Bell and Blood Brothers

Posted by Laura Bast on September 13, 2013

Check out the Fall 2013 edition of Atlantic Books Today for a great review of Me & Mr. Bell by Lisa Doucet, the Young Readers’ editor at Atlantic Books Today. Doucet writes that the book is “a lovely look at an earlier time” and “a success worth celebrating.”

Teresa Bateman has written a similarly lovely review on Goodreads, which you can find here. She writes that “the [main] concepts [in the story] are woven seamlessly into the story” and that it “would be a good read-aloud, and a hopeful book choice for those who have their own academic struggles.”

Find out more about Me & Mr. Bell here.

Speaking of Philip Roy, the blog Chrisbookarama has published a review of Blood Brothers in Louisbourg (published in October 2012), which you can find here. She calls it an “excellent little book.”

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Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Awards Weekend

Posted by Laura Bast on September 12, 2013

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) has a bunch of great readings coming up the weekend of September 20 in connection with their 2013 Literary Awards. Herb MacDonald’s book, Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History, has been nominated for the WFNS’s Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award. The winners will be announced on Saturday, September 21, 2013 in Halifax. He will be reading in Wolfville and Halifax as part of these events.

Here are the details:

WFNS Literary Awards Reading in Wolfville
The Box of Delights Bookshop, 466 Main Street, Wolfville
Friday, September 20, 2013, 7:00pm
Free admission
More details here

WFNS Literary Awards Reading in Halifax
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax
Saturday, September 21, 2013, 2:00pm
More details here

2013 WFNS Literary Awards Ceremony & Celebration
Institute of Applied Creativity (NSCAD), 1061 Marginal Road, Halifax
Saturday, September 21, 2013, 7:00pm
Free admission but RSVP by September 19 to programs@writers.ns.ca
More details here

You can find even more events at the WFNS events page.

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CB authors prominent at Halifax book fair

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 11, 2013

Word on the Street at Halifax Waterfront September 22

Six books published by Cape Breton University Press will share the various stages at The Word on the Street, September 22, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the Halifax Waterfront.

New to the region’s biggest book and magazine festival is the “Open Book” tent to be located immediately behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

“Open Book” will highlight literature from the region’s predominant cultures: Aboriginal, Acadian, African-Canadian, Celtic and English, as well as other immigrant experiences.

CBU Press authors making presentations on the “Open Book” stage are Cassie Deveaux Cohoon (Jeanne Dugas of Acadia – 11 a.m.), Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis (The Language of This Land, Mi’kma’ki – 1 p.m.) and Michael Newton (editor of Celts in the Americas – 3 p.m.)

The “Remarkable Reads” tent aboard HMCS Sackville will feature a “cooks and books” panel featuring Anne Marie Lane Jonah (co-author of French Taste in Atlantic Canada – 11:30), while the “Vibrant Voices” tent, focusing on books for young adult readers, will include Hugh R. MacDonald (Trapper Boy – 1 p.m.).

“Dynamic Dialogues” will include a railways panel discussion with Herb MacDonald (Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History – 4 p.m.). CB Railways is shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson prize for non-fiction, the winner of which will be announced Saturday evening at a Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia ceremony on September 21.

Mike Hunter, Editor-in-Chief at Cape Breton University Press, says he is “delighted” about the selection of these authors and their books for Word on the Street.

“This is a great opportunity to reach some pretty large audiences,” Hunter says, “and is a credit to all their hard work and dedication to their research and stories.”

“To have six CBU Press books featured is also very satisfying,” he adds, “and a credit to past, present and future authors who come to us with their projects.”

Cape Breton University Press publishes 8-10 books per year.

For the complete schedule of The Word on the Street, Halifax, go to: http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/halifax.

Timetable of CBU Press appearances.

Jeanne Dugas of Acadia 11:00-12:00, Open Book Tent, Maritime Museum Courtyard

Cassie Deveaux Cohoon – Jeanne Dugas of Acadia, Denise Cormier – The Village of my Heart’s Mistake

11:30 – 1:00, Cooks & Books Panel, HMCS Sackville

Anne Marie Lane Jonah – French Taste in Atlantic Canada, Wendy McCallum – Real Food for Real Families, and Elisabeth Bailey – Maritime Fresh

1:00 – 1:45, Vibrant Voices Tent, Visitor Information Centre

Trapper_FC-web Hugh R. MacDonald – Trapper Boy, Laura Best – Flying with a Broken Wing

1:00 – 2:00, Open Book Tent, Maritime Museum Courtyard

Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis – The Language of This Land, Mi’kma’ki, Michael James Isaac – The Lost Teachings

3:00 – 4:00, Open Book Tent, Maritime Museum Courtyard

Michael Newton – Celts in the Americas, Jon Tattrie – Cornwallis: The Violent Birth of Halifax

Cape Breton Railways 4:00 – 4:45, Atlantic Railways Panel, Dynamic Dialogues Tent

Herb MacDonald – Cape Breton Railways, Ken Pieroway – Rails Across the Rock, J.P. Underwood

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CBC Short Story Prize promoted

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 8, 2013

The CBC Short Story Prize is one of Canada’s richest prizes for original, unpublished work. You can submit your unpublished story between 1200 and 1500 words to the competition. First Prize is $6000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and the CBC Canada Writes website, plus a two-week residency at The Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists’ Colony and an interview on CBC Radio.

Four runners-up each receive $1000 courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts, and their stories will be published on the Canada Writes website. The competition deadline is November 1st. Get all the details at Canada Writes.

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Gaelic focus of Island Echoes this eve

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 7, 2013

John Alick MacPherson, native Gaelic speaker and author, editor, translator, will be the featured guest on CBC Radio One Cape Breton’s Island Echoes this evening (Sept. 7, 2013).

John Alick is just back from a successful book launch and tour in Scotland promoting two new Celtic/Gaelic studies books from CBU Press.

Be sure to be listening for a surprising new initiative on the part of CBC Cape Breton. Island Echoes airs Saturdays, 8-9 p.m. (Atlantic)

John Alick MacPherson, along with Michael Linkletter (Chair, Celtic Studies, St. Francis Xavier University), has just released a collection of the writings of Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) from Mac-Talla, the 19th-century Gaelic newspaper out of Sydney, Cape Breton. Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry was launched August 9 in Helmsdale, Scotland (link here to more about the book tour) and is making its way into Canadian bookstores in the comings days.

Also launched on that tour was Bearing the People Away: The Portable Highland Clearances Companion, by June Skinner Sawyers.

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“innovative and stimulating” : review

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 6, 2013

In a review essay focusing on publications on Planter Studies, Elizabeth Mancke, Acadiensis (XLII, no. 1), has high praise for Campbell and Smith’s award winning Necessaries and Sufficiencies (CBU Press 2011,).

“Assiduously researched and eloquently crafted, [utilizing] fragments of evidence that many scholars would have discarded, contextualizing them to reconstruct daily life…” “In doing so, they provide evocative descriptions of [life].”

Such studies “underscore how important it is to understand Nova Scotia, and the Atlantic region more generally, on its own terms … innovative and stimulating.”

Necessaries and Sufficiencies: Planter Society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships, 1761-1780, by Carol Campbell and James F. Smith, won the 2012 D-250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing.

Acadiensis XLII, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2013): 169-81.

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Johnston to lecture @ Government House

Posted by Mike Hunter on September 4, 2013

His Honour Brigadier-General The Honourable J.J. Grant, CMM, ONS, CD (Ret’d), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and Her Honour Mrs. Joan Grant invite Nova Scotians, particularly those that have never visited Government House before, to attend a new public event series designed to showcase civic and cultural excellence in Nova Scotia.

This exciting initiative entitled “Evenings @ Government House” will feature diverse presenters and performers from a range of communities across Nova Scotia including musicians, authors, scientists, sporting figures and more. All events will run from 7:00pm-8:30pm, are free of charge and open to the public, however, seating is limited and advance registration is required.

Registration will open two weeks before each event.

On November 19, the guest lecturer will be A.J.B. (John) Johnston on the topic of “Louisbourg and the Twists of Time.”

Registration for this event will open on November 5, 2013.

Guests are requested to arrive between 6:30pm and 6:50pm. Late arrivers will not be permitted entry.

Nova Scotia Government House is located at 1451 Barrington Street, Halifax.

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“Highly recommended” : review

Posted by Mike Hunter on August 16, 2013

The Charlottetown Guardian has published favourable comments by reviewer Elizabeth Cran on our two fall books for young people Me & Mr. Bell, by Philip Roy, and The Manager, by Caroline Stellings.

Cran writes that the books are “well worth reading by anyone of any age,” and that Me & Mr Bell is “highly recommended.”

You can read the full review here.

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“French Taste” basis of newspaper feature

Posted by Mike Hunter on August 5, 2013

A feature food article by Nadine Fownes in the Halifax Chronicle Herald August 3 (D6) is based on our book French Taste in Atlantic Canada: A Gastronomic History (Le goût Français au Canada Atlantique 1604-1758 : Une Histoire Gastronomique) by Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Véchembre. Inspired by the “Louisbourg 300” celebrations this summer, the article focuses on 18th-century cuisine à-la-Louisbourg.

French Taste was also front-and-centre at a culinary festival at Fortress Louisbourg (July 28). All day, food demonstrations and lectures were offered by chefs from across the region, most of which were inspired by a recipe from the book. CBU Press was there for the day, as part of an outdoor market featuring Cape Breton produce, preserves, beer, wine and cheese.

In the photo, participants in an 18th-century re-enactment at the Fortress, visited the CBU Press booth to buy a copy of From the Hearth by Hope Dunton and A.J.B. Johnston.

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