Promo image with six photos of authors, Mackenzie Nolan (white woman with long black curly hair); Meg Todd (White woman with short blonde hair); Margo LaPierre (white woman with long blonde hair); David Bergen (white man shaved head wearing glasses); Umar Turaki (black man, shaved head, short beard, wearing glasses); Leila Marshy (white presenting Palestinian woman with short hair wearing glasses)

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In WWII Ann Charney, her family & other Jews hid from Nazis in a Polish barn. #DOBRYD is Charney's evocative memoir of emerging into liberated Poland. With an intriguing intro re why, on 1st pub in 1973, DOBRYD was largely ignored. A treat to review 4 @theseaboardreview.ca #BarakaBooks rb.gy/izt7fv

Nova Scotia Short Story Collections: Sue Murtagh, Carol Bruneau, Amanda Peters, Chris Benjamin, and M.V. Feehan We’re Not Rich by Sue Murtagh (Nimbus Publishing) I loved this debut collection and wrote about it for The Seaboard Review earlier this year. Below is a short excerpt of my review. You can re…

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