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Cruel Summer

An iconic town in the line of fire

Blurred Borders

The human stories behind immigration

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

Carolyn Ellis

Carolyn Ellis works as an offshore snow crab and shrimp fisher in the Atlantic provinces.

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Quite the Catch

Nicholas Herring’s debut March 2023
Based on the marketing copy on the back cover of Nicholas Herring’s debut novel, readers might expect a story like Michael Crummey’s Galore : a lush, disconcerting, and disorienting narrative of magic realism with a distinctly Atlantic Canadian flavour (of the early Newfoundland cod fishery in Crummey’s case, and of the contemporary Prince Edward Island lobster fishery in…