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The Miramichi Reader highlights noteworthy books and authors across Canada from coast to coast to coast. We invite you to peruse our site for in-depth Book Reviews, Author Interviews, Literary Criticism and Essays, posted daily. Featured By-lines and Literary Showcases are posted monthly, and our annual “The Very Best!” Book Awards, presented each summer, are not to be missed.

curRent fiction reviews

Chemical Valley by David Huebert

Ian Colford | October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 | Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories

I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan

Alison Manley | October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 | Fiction

Pull Focus by Helen Walsh

Shawna Butler | October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 | Fiction

Even So by Lauren B. Davis

Ian Colford | October 25, 2021October 26, 2021 | Fiction

Open Your Heart by Alexie Morin, Translated by Aimee Wall

James M. Fisher | October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 | Contemporary Fiction, Creative Fiction, Fiction

Amid the Splintered Trees by Heather McBriarty

Allan Hudson | October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 | Fiction, War

Excerpt: Reversing Time by Charlotte Mendel

James M. Fisher | October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 | Cli-Fi, Excerpt, Fiction

The Body On The Beach by Patrick J. Collins

Stephanie Collins | October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 | Crime, Fiction

current non-fiction reviews

A Canadian Nurse in the Great War: The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915-1916 Edited by Ross Hebb

Heather McBriarty | October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 | History, Non-Fiction, War

Don’t Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye by Genevieve A. Chornenki

Alison Manley | October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 | Health, Non-Fiction

Just the Usual Work: The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working-Class Diarist by Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins

Gemma Marr | October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 | New Brunswick, Non-Fiction

Three Non-Fiction Flash Reviews

James M. Fisher | October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 | Non-Fiction, War

Current poetry reviews

The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba

Dominique Béchard | October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 | Poetry

The Essential Elizabeth Brewster as selected by Ingrid Ruthig

Alison Manley | September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 | Poetry

Satched: Poems by Megan Gail Coles

Alison Manley | September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 | Poetry

Smithereens by Terence Young

Pearl Pirie | September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 | Poetry

Featured Columns

Miramichi Flash ‘Showcase’: October 2021

Karen Schauber | October 24, 2021October 24, 2021

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

Bill Arnott | October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Writing Wholly (Holy) Unto Oneself & A Bit About Writerly Self-Esteem.

Kayla Geitzler | October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Episode 10: I Read Somewhere That

Lisa de Nikolits
October 24, 2021October 24, 2021

Indie Bookstores: Connecting Communities

Bill Arnott | July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

Conflict of Interest

Nathaniel G. Moore | July 25, 2021July 26, 2021

Weekly Ferocity: October 24, 2021

Simon Constam | October 24, 2021October 24, 2021

Current Titles for Younger Readers

Little Wolf by Teoni Spathelfer 

Melanie Métivier | October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 | Children, Children, Picture Book

Mi’kmaq Campfire Stories of Prince Edward Island by Julie Pellissier-Lush

Melanie Métivier | October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 | Children, Children, Cultural, Indigenous Titles, Picture Book

Once Upon An Iceberg: Errol’s Twillingate Adventure by Sheilah Lukins

Melanie Métivier | September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 | Children

The Gardener by Carrie Stanton

Melanie Métivier | September 11, 2021September 11, 2021 | Children

Current interviews

The Sydney Warner Brooman Interview

October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 | Authors, Interviews

The Genevieve Chornenki Interview

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 | Interviews

The Lesley Krueger Interview

October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 | Interviews

The Bruce Hutchison Interview

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 | Interviews

Singular Short Stories

Swallow Dive by Zev Bagel

James M. Fisher | October 25, 2021October 24, 2021

Dragon’s Fury by Pierre C. Arseneault

James M. Fisher | October 3, 2021October 3, 2021

Boone Park, a Short Story by JP McLean

James M. Fisher | September 22, 2021September 22, 2021

Into the Abyss: A Short Story by Allan Hudson

Allan Hudson | September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

Viewpoints

“The Very Best!” Book Awards, 2021

Gone Viking: a Travel Saga by Bill Arnott

James M. Fisher

Brighten the Corner Where You Are, a Novel Inspired by the Life of Maud Lewis by Carol Bruneau

Patricia Sandberg

Seeking Shade By Frances Boyle

Valerie Mills-Milde

If You Discover A Fire by Shaun Robinson

Chris Banks

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