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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

Just Like A Real Person by Doug Diaczuk

Glenda MacDonald | November 29, 2021November 28, 2021 | Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed

Terri Favro | November 29, 2021November 27, 2021 | Cli-Fi, Fiction, Novella, science fiction

Shapers of Worlds Volume II Edited by Edward Willett

Lisa Timpf | November 29, 2021November 28, 2021 | Collections, Fantasy, Fiction, science fiction, Short Stories

Three for Trinity by Kevin Major

Ian Colford | November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 | Fiction, Mystery, Newfoundland & Labrador

Excerpt: This is How We Love by Lisa Moore

James M. Fisher | November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 | Excerpt, Fiction

Buffoon by Anosh Irani

Heidi Greco | November 15, 2021November 13, 2021 | Fiction, Humour, Play

Lullaby: Revisiting Ru by Kim Thúy

Cynthia Sharp | November 8, 2021November 7, 2021 | Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

Because Venus Crossed An Alpine Violet On The Day That I Was Born by Mona Høvring, trans. Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin

Alison Manley | November 1, 2021November 6, 2021 | Creative Fiction, Fiction

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current non-fiction reviews

The “Mr. Big” Sting: The Cases, the Killers, the Controversial Confessions by Mark Stobbe

James M. Fisher | November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 | Crime, Non-Fiction, True Crime

Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero by Grant Hayter-Menzies

Heather McBriarty | November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 | Non-Fiction, War

Memories on the Bounty: A Story of Friendship, Love, and Adventure by Janet Coulter Sanford

James M. Fisher | November 15, 2021November 13, 2021 | Memoirs, Non-Fiction

Beyond the Gallery: An Anthology of Visual Encounters, edited by Liuba Gonzàles de Armas and Ana Ruiz Aguirre

Rachel Fernandes | November 15, 2021November 13, 2021 | Creative Non-Fiction, Essays, Non-Fiction

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Current poetry reviews

Cadence: Voix Féminines, Female Voices edited by Kayla Geitzler and Elizabeth Blanchard

Tammy Catherine Greene | November 29, 2021November 27, 2021 | New Brunswick, Poetry

I Am the Big Heart: Poems by by Sarah Venart

Zoe Shaw | November 29, 2021November 27, 2021 | Poetry

These are not the potatoes of my youth by Matthew Walsh

Laurie Burns | November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 | Poetry

Introducing: Mercedez Tate, Indigenous Poet

James M. Fisher | November 15, 2021November 13, 2021 | Cultural, Indigenous Titles, Poetry

Older Posts

Featured Columns

Miramichi Flash ‘Showcase’: November 2021

Karen Schauber | November 27, 2021November 27, 2021

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bill Arnott | November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

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

Kayla Geitzler | October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

Weekly Ferocity: November 28, 2021

Simon Constam | November 28, 2021November 28, 2021

Our Podcast

The Miramichi Reader Podcast

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021

In this episode, James talks about The Miramichi Reader’s “flash fiction” site, MiramichiFlash.ca as well as the new second edition of Brenda J. Thompson’s “A Wholesome Horror: Poor Houses of Nova Scotia” and what’s in the next issue of the TMR Newsletter out on Monday.