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Excerpt: Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying by Angela Parker-Brown

May 28, 2024December 5, 2022 by James M. Fisher

An excerpt from “Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying” by Angela Parker-Brown.

Bill Arnott’s Beat: Disguised as Prose

November 13, 2022November 13, 2022 by Bill Arnott

Bill Arnott shares a passage from his instant bestseller, A Season on Vancouver Island.

Excerpt: See You Later Maybe Never by Lenore Rowntree

May 28, 2024November 12, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Intelligent and funny, timeless and tragic, See You Later Maybe Never gets to the heart of what it means to be seen as old in a strange new world.

Excerpt: The Elk Whistle Warrior Society by Rick Revelle

May 28, 2024September 25, 2022 by James M. Fisher

This excerpt is taken from the forthcoming book by Rick Revelle, The Elk Whistle Warrior Society. This action and adventure story takes place in the 1960s. Revelle highlights the skills required to be part of the Elk Whistle Warrior Society, an organization that was founded 650 years ago by Anishinaabe and Cree teenagers.

Excerpt: First You Have to Learn to Live Alone, by Jeanne Ainslie

September 18, 2022 by Bill Arnott

The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming nonfiction book by Jeanne Ainslie, First You Have to Learn to Live Alone: A Compassionate Guide to Living Alone and Aging.

Excerpt: The Closer by Jason Smith

May 28, 2024August 14, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Bawdy and brawling, comical and crude, The Closer offers a gritty, uncensored glimpse into the grind of professional baseball.

Excerpt: Hold on please, Emily by Doris Siu

May 28, 2024August 12, 2022 by James M. Fisher

An excerpt from Doris Siu’s novel, Hold On Please, Emily.

Excerpt: Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family, and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar

May 28, 2024July 25, 2022 by James M. Fisher

What follows is an exclusive excerpt from Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul (Hardie Grant Books), available In Canada and the United States in September.

Excerpt: The Running Trees by Amber McMillan (Part III)

May 28, 2024July 11, 2022 by James M. Fisher

The third and final instalment of an excerpt from Amber McMillan’s The Running Trees.

Excerpt: A Season on Vancouver Island by Bill Arnott

July 11, 2022 by Bill Arnott

An excerpt from the forthcoming book from Bill Arnott, the award-winning author of the “Gone Viking” travel adventure books.

Excerpt: The Running Trees by Amber McMillan (Part II)

May 28, 2024July 1, 2022 by James M. Fisher

This collection of play-stories appears throughout McMillan’s short fiction collection The Running Trees (Goose Lane, 2021) and The Miramichi Reader is pleased to present to you the second of three installments in this exclusive excerpt.