Heidi Greco – The Miramichi Reader

Letters to Amelia By Lindsay Zier-Vogel

August 28, 2021 by Heidi Greco

Underscoring the power of reading and writing letters for self-discovery, Letters to Amelia is, above all, a story of the essential need for connection—and our universal ability to find hope in the face of fear.

Northern Light: Power, Land, and Memory of Water By Kazim Ali

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 by Heidi Greco

Kazim Ali’s earliest memories are of Jenpeg, a temporary town in the forests of northern Manitoba where his immigrant father worked on the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

my daughter Rehtaeh Parsons By Glen Canning with Susan McClelland

May 22, 2021May 19, 2021 by Heidi Greco

Rehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. But her life was derailed when she went to a friend’s house for a sleepover and the two of them dropped by at a neighbour’s house, where a group of boys were having a party.

Duct-Taped Roses by Billeh Nickerson

May 2, 2021April 24, 2021 by Heidi Greco

In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss.

burninghouse by Deborah Stiles

April 7, 2021March 28, 2021 by Heidi Greco

burninghouse peels away the veneer of the speaker’s existence to reveal the hypocritical inconsistencies that lie beneath, including weaning children, decorum in elevators, and homelessness.