The New Brunswick Literary Times

New Brunswick writer K.V. Johansen will be a guest of honour at the Days of Canadian Literature event April 26-28 in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, a country that gained independence from Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Half the size of Nova Scotia, Macedonia avoided the worst of the violence and ethnic cleansing in the civil wars of the former Yugoslavia. Macedonian writers and publishers are now hoping to create not only a new nation, but a new children’s literature that will contribute to a peaceful and tolerant future in which both of the country’s dominant languages – Macedonian and Albanian – will be cherished and supported.

campaign to help raise funds to make the short film "zack & luc

The Story

 “zack & luc” is the story of two ordinary men in a relationship. It captures the small moments, the ones we often don’t remember to remember: brushing our teeth together, having breakfast and perusing the newspaper, running through the woods, and looking at the stars. It is a dramatic, experimental short film that will be presented entirely in split screen, the perspectives of the two men presented side-by-side. One side of the split screen is chronological while the other is reverse chronological: each moment is pushed up against another.  This means the audience sees the first and last moment together simultaneously and at the end of the film sees the last and the first moments there again from the two men’s perspectives.

Phineas William Walsh siempre tiene razón. Tiene sólo nueve años y resulta algo repelente; pero siempre tiene razón.

The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the full shortlist for the ten different book prizes that make up the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. The thirty books up for awards represent the wide range of literary works being produced in Atlantic Canada—from traditional novels to cutting edge fiction; thought-provoking non-fiction and deeply researched books on Atlantic Canadian history, to poetry; and illustrated children’s picture books to novels written for teens and young adults. The full shortlist is available here.

CBC's Canada Writes, the online literary destination section of CBC Books, with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada's enRoute magazine and The Banff Centre; has announced the finalists for this year's CBC Short Story Prize.

Thirty-six years after its initial publication, David Adams Richards’ novel, Blood Ties, still takes your breath away.

David Adams Richards is one of Canada's most celebrated writers, and he's reading tonight at St. Mary's University. He stopped by our studio first.

James Arthur (MA, 2001) has recently published his first book of poetry called Charms Against Lightning.

Published by the prestigious publisher Copper Canyon, Arthur’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review and UNB’s own Fiddlehead.

Riel Nason’s Commonwealth Prize-winning novel is a story of change, beautifully navigated and narrated by a young social outcast.

Toronto’s Craig Davidson is the author of Rust and Bone, a short story collection adapted into an acclaimed new film starring Marion Cotillard.

Millicent Travis Lane lives on a quiet street “up the hill” in Fredericton, New Brunswick, across the street from the campus of the University of New Brunswick, where she has been an honorary research associate since 1967. A PhD graduate of Cornell University, where she marked for Vladimir Nabokov and wrote her dissertation on agnosticism as technique in the work of Robert Frost, Lane has published fourteen volumes of poetry plus several chapbooks, and has been reviewing poetry for The Fiddlehead since the late sixties.

Cats in captivity I did not grow up with pets, but in my early twenties adopted a kitten and fell for her hard: furry little Sabine herself, but also the wonder of living in close quarters with an ...

An interview of Corey Redekop By Derek Newman-Stille Wouldn’t the world be better if we just asked the monsters politely if they could please not eat us at the moment? Corey Redekop and I had a cha...

The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the full shortlist for the ten different book prizes that make up the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. The thirty books up for awards represent the wide range of literary works being produced in Atlantic Canada—from traditional novels to cutting edge fiction; thought-provoking non-fiction and deeply researched books on Atlantic Canadian history, to poetry; and illustrated children’s picture books to novels written for teens and young adults. The full shortlist is printed below and is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca.