Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I'm opening a bookstore! Follow the ducks! 🦆📚🦆 151
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonPaula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025bookjotter.com/2025/09/27/winding-up-the-week-440/ #AmReading #Books #BookReview #HispanicHeritageMonth25 @consumedbyink.bsky.socialbookjotter.comWinding Up the Week #440This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a past post deserving to be read an… 023
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 17/09/2025Covers of the books reviewed in the “All Non-fiction” issue of September 15th, 2025. #bookreviews www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... 033
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonSarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I’ve been working on my novel The Austens for a long time, and I’m having a big party to celebrate the launch (& Jane Austen’s 250th birthday & the Austen family’s connections with Nova Scotia). October 21st, Regency Ballroom, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax. www.facebook.com/events/13893... 052
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 03/09/2025The covers of books reviewed this week at The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit #fiction #poetry 043
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 09/09/2025Covers of the books reviewed in the September 8th (Monday) edition of The Seaboard Review of Books. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... 042
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 30/08/2025“Settle in for this weird, wild, wet Newfoundland supernatural adventure that will simultaneously provoke the heart and the mind.” @consumedbyink.bsky.social reviews FALSE BODIES by J.R. McConvey for us. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/false-bodi... #canlit #weirdfiction @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social 073
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books consumedbyink.ca/2025/09/14/c... @nimbuspub.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @moosehousepress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social #BoularderieIslandPress #CanLit #ReadAtlantic #NovaScotia #fictionconsumedbyink.caCatching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and BooksThis is a group of books I read several months ago and am just catching up on now. They are by no means the only books by NS authors I’ve read this year, or recently. For example, I wrote abo… 032
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 25/08/2025OC Publishing: Julie Strong, Carolyn J. Nicholson, and Anne Louise O'Connell consumedbyink.ca/2025/08/25/o... #OCPublishing #CanLit #ReadAtlanticconsumedbyink.caOC Publishing: Julie Strong, Carolyn J. Nicholson, and Anne Louise O’ConnellOC Publishing is a tiny press out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Small but mighty. So far, I’ve sampled and enjoyed a delightful middle grade fantasy novel set on the Isle of Skye, a fast-paced mys… 031
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnon49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · 18/07/2025It's here! Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview with titles from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07... #CanLit49thshelf.comMost Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview · Blog Post · 49th ShelfAll the fiction you'll be falling in love with in the second half of 2025. 0116
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 22/07/2025The latest issue of The Seaboard Review of Books is out! Here are the covers of the 6 reviews contained in this week's issue. There is also an author interview and two "Hot Takes" to read about. Enjoy! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #canlit 0104
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonthetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Nina Berkhout's This Bright Dust (pub. @gooselane.bsky.social) in Issue 31! ...Berkhout’s work as a poet is also evident here, as she gently but relentlessly immerses readers in this dustbowl-era setting... www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber... 032
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonthetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Rod Moody-Corbett's Hides (pub. @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social) in Iss 31! ...we realise just how delicately he has held this whole mess in his storyteller’s grip, how tenderly he has pressed and released this story... www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-moo... 021
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonTrevor S Chittick | Writer @trevorchittick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025#NovaScotia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caA bookstore that's been a Halifax institution since 1987 is facing closure | CBC NewsJohn W. Doull, Bookseller, will be forced to close if the business is unable to raise enough money to catch up on rent by Friday. 124
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 20/07/2025A Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving” sarahemsley.com/2025/07/11/a...sarahemsley.comA Bookmark Plaque in Halifax, NS for Budge Wilson’s Story “The Leaving”Project Bookmark Canada recently announced that a Bookmark plaque will be unveiled in Halifax for Budge Wilson’s short story “The Leaving.” I’m the organizer of the Nova Scotia Reading Circle for P… 021
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 10/07/2025consumedbyink.ca/2025/07/10/m... @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social #ReadAtlantic #CanLit #NovaScotia #CapeBreton #TruroNS #memoir #MarjorieSimminsconsumedbyink.caMaritime Memoirs: In Search of Puffins by Marjorie SimminsI was always going to read this book; a memoir, in part, about Marjorie’s move from Cape Breton to Truro, Nova Scotia. I wanted to read an account of a newcomer moving to the town I’ve … 032
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonChris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025 “Each story drives you on to see what the next author has dreamed up for you. Highly compelling.” @agpasquella.bsky.social @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Great review by @consumedbyink.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/devouring-...theseaboardreview.caDevouring Tomorrow, edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. PasquellaReviewed by Naomi MacKinnon 122
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonlmmipei.bsky.social @lmmipei.bsky.social · 08/07/2025💐📖 Budge Wilson and L.M. Montgomery are deeply connected. The two writers had each occupied, as young women, decades apart, the "Third-and-a-Half” room in Halifax Ladies’ College. Now, Wilson will join Montgomery as another great Canadian writer whose work is honoured by a Project Bookmark plaque. 164
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 01/07/2025We've had so many new subscribers recently, that I thought a little introduction was in order. My name is James M. Fisher and I am the Founding Editor and current editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books, an online literary journal. Visit us at www.theseaboardreview.ca to subscribe. 072
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonAtlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · 03/06/2025drum roll!mailchi.mpThe Winners Are... 013
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 28/05/2025The most recent book reviews at TSR. Six impressive titles (and impressive reviews) from our latest issue. www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit 🇨🇦 #bookreviews #booksofbluesky 042
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonAtlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Vigil by @susieisnothere.bsky.social is nominated for the Alistair MacLeod Prize & the Thomas Raddall Fiction Award! You can hear Susie read live on Tuesday, June 3rd at An Evening of Short Stories Hosted by Alexander MacLeod or on Wednesday, June 4th at Fiction Fête! At The Chester Playhouse. 012
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonHeather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 30/05/20252025 Crime Writers of Canada Award winners announced #CanLit crimewriterscanada.com/index.php/en...crimewriterscanada.comTHE 2025 AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE WINNERS | Crime Writers of Canada Events & AnnouncementsOTTAWA, ON – May 30, 2025 – Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is pleased to announce the Winners of the 2025 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. Since 1984, Crime... 042
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonDublin Literary Award @dublinlitaward.bsky.social · 22/05/2025🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆 Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉 #DublinLitAward #DLA30yrs 13922
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonHeather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Leacock Medal for Canadian Humour Writing finalists announced. #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/greg-k...cbc.caGreg Kearney, Patricia J. Parsons and Natalie Sue finalists for $25K Leacock Medal for Canadian humour writing | CBC BooksPresented by the Stephen Leacock Associates, the award annually recognizes the best in Canadian humorous writing. The winner will be revealed on June 21. 042
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 21/05/2025substack.com/@consumedbyi...substack.com2025 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize FinalistsThe Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award has been recognizing outstanding Atlantic fiction since 1991. 000
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 19/05/2025Special #victoriaday edition of The Seaboard Review of Books is out! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/victoria-d... 043
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 12/05/2025New issue is out! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... #canlit 🇨🇦 154
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 12/05/2025consumedbyink.ca/2025/05/12/n... @nimbuspub.bsky.social #BarakaBooks @galleonbooks.bsky.social #CanLit #ReadAtlantic #NovaScotiaconsumedbyink.caNova Scotia Short Story Collections: Sue Murtagh, Carol Bruneau, Amanda Peters, Chris Benjamin, and M.V. FeehanWe’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… 021
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonAtlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Who do you think should win the 2025 Readers' Choice Award? Round one of voting is open and there's still time to nominate!docs.google.comReaders' Choice Award 2025Who do you think should win the 2025 Readers' Choice Award? Let your voice be heard – vote for your favourite Atlantic Canadian book from the last year. Everyone is invited to participate. The Reader... 022
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonAtlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · 09/05/2025See you at The Chester Playhouse on June 4th for Fiction Fête! Celebrate Atlantic fiction authors with a showcase of readings from the nominees! @gooddogbooks.bsky.social will be joining us have these nominated books for sale! 012
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonAtlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social · 29/04/2025See you there!zeffy.comWriting the Truth: An Evening of Non-Fiction at Kings Alumni HallNon-fiction writing prioritizes facts over the imagined, but stories based in the real world can be as fast-paced and fascinating as fantasy! Join Nova Scotia Book Award nominees in an evening of read... 043
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 08/05/2025“Ms. Hawkins masterfully maintains the tension." @miramichijim.bsky.social (James) reviews A CHILD TO CRY OVER by New Brunswick author Vanessa C. Hawkins. #canlit #nbbluesky www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/a-child-to... 041
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 07/05/2025“If I Remember Lights has a message, it is one of hope, that we will never revert to a time when people were taught to hate who they are.” Ian Colford reviews I REMEMBER LIGHTS by Ben Ladouceur, published by @bookhugpress.bsky.social. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/i-remember... 073
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Nominees for the 2025 Willow Awards have been announced. Read more: bookcentre.ca/blogs/industry-news/nominees-announced-for-the-2025-willow-awardsbookcentre.caNominees announced for the 2025 Willow AwardsThe nominees for the 2025 Willow Awards were recently announced. Also known as the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Award (SYRCA), the awards promote reading and celebrate Canadian literature. Each... 0103
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 14/04/2025We have updated our “Hot Takes” post with the latest from our last two issues, so if you're looking for a quick book recce, we got 'em! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/tsr-hot-ta... #canlit 042
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 14/04/2025consumedbyink.ca/2025/04/14/p... @qwertymagazine.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social #poetrymonthconsumedbyink.caPoetry Month: Katie Cameron and Deborah BanksMight This Be A Greenhouse? by Katie Cameron Katie Cameron’s chapbook is #2 in a series of chapbooks being published by Qwerty Magazine at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The … 011
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonJoanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 03/04/20252025 Atlantic Book Awards noms announced! writers.ns.ca/award-news/b... incl titles by @gaspereaupress.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social, @nimbuspub.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. #DSPBposts #BookSkywriters.ns.ca2025 Atlantic & Nova Scotia Book Awards shortlistsThe shortlists for the 2025 Atlantic Book Awards and 2025 Nova Scotia Book Awards were jointly announced on March 31 at the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia (Halifax). Congratulations to the twenty ... 0117
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonWriters’ Federation of Nova Scotia @writersfedofns.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Upcoming panel on Trans Joy and Authorship on April 23! 052
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Finalists announced for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature Read more: bookcentre.ca/blogs/industry-news/finalists-2025-ann-connor-brimer-awardbookcentre.caFinalists announced for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for AtlanticThe finalists for the 2025 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature were recently announced. Administered by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, the Ann Connor Brimer Aw... 0175
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 08/04/2025A reminder of our #poetrymonth bundle we are giving away on our Facebook page. @gooselane.bsky.social has kindly donated three of their icehouse imprint titles. www.facebook.com/share/p/16MX... 083
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 06/04/2025Monday's issue of The Seaboard Review is an all-poetry issue for #poetrymonth! Subscribe and get it delivered to your inbox: www.theseaboardreview.ca #canlit 🇨🇦theseaboardreview.caThe Seaboard Review | The Seaboard Review of Books | SubstackEmbark on a Journey to Uncover Great Reads. All our content is free. No paywalls, ever. New content every Monday. Click to read The Seaboard Review, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers... 094
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonpottersfieldpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Fantastic review of Jules Torti's Trips That Went South. Jules' books are extremely amusing and engaging. We highly recommend. 031
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 02/04/2025consumedbyink.ca/2025/04/02/j... @consumedbyink.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social #CanLit #essaysconsumedbyink.caJules Torti: hen’s teeth, coincidences, gastro-intestinal matters, and being weirdThe Wisdom Found in Hen’s Teeth (Pottersfield Press) When I read Been There, Ate That a couple of years ago, I felt like Jules and I had a lot in common. I could relate to her nostalgia to th… 021
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonUniversity of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Happy International Trans Day of Visibility! Check out this fantastic upcoming virtual panel with @writersfedofns.bsky.social featuring our very own @krbyggdin.bsky.social, Zoë Comeau, @lukehathaway.bsky.social Trynne Delaney and Sal Sawler, April 23at 7:00 pm AST. writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...writers.ns.caBeyond Survival: 5 Writers on Trans Joy and AuthorshipAuthor panel (virtual) Wednesday, Apr 23 (7pm - 8:30pm) Free registration 063
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 01/04/2025Yes, it's our first anniversary, and we have lots to share with you this month! Firstly, a 50% discount on a subscription to The Seaboard Review! Please use this link: www.theseaboardreview.ca/oneyear (TIP: paying subscribers will automatically be entered into an exclusive book bundle giveaway!) 0123
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 24/03/2025The latest issue of The Seaboard Review is out! Poetry, Fiction, Horror, and Hot Takes! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-seaboa... 053
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 24/03/2025Congratulations to NB publisher @galleon-books.bsky.social for having one of their titles, NACHZEHRER, nominated by New Brunswick Book Awards! We reviewed it back in July, and it's certainly worthy of the recognition. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/nachzehrer... #canlit #nbbluesky #bookawardstheseaboardreview.caNachzehrer by Nelson KeaneReviewed by James M. Fisher 0123
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonHeather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 16/03/20252025 Amplified Voices @writerstrust.bsky.social #CanLit www.writerstrust.com/recommended-...writerstrust.comWT Recommended ReadingHandpicked by Canadian authors 053
Reposted by Naomi MacKinnonThe Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 13/03/2025The four latest reviews at The Seaboard Review. Graphics by @selenamercuri.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca 091
