Skip to content

  • Home
  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Poetry
    • Chapbooks
  • Children
  • Special Features
    • Why I Wrote This Book
    • Itty Bitty Reviews
    • Interviews
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Support TMR
  • Home
  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Poetry
    • Chapbooks
  • Children
  • Special Features
    • Why I Wrote This Book
    • Itty Bitty Reviews
    • Interviews
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Support TMR

Excerpt

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.

Categories Excerpt, Non-Fiction Tags aging, excerpt, living alone, Seniors

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.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction, Sport, Sports Tags baseball, excerpt, sports

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.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Excerpt, Fiction Tags cancer, Hope, music

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. 

Categories Excerpt, Non-Fiction Tags excerpt

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.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction Tags Amber McMillan, excerpt

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.

Categories Excerpt, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Travel Tags bill arnott, British Columbia, Memoirs, Photography, Travel, Vancouver Island

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.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction Tags Amber McMillan, excerpt

Excerpt: The Running Trees by Amber McMillan (Part 1)

May 28, 2024June 23, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Part 1 of a three-part excerpt from The Running Trees by Amber McMillan.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction Tags excerpt, short fiction

An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott

May 23, 2022May 21, 2022 by Bill Arnott

An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott.

Categories Excerpt, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Travel Tags bill arnott, excerpt, travel writing

Excerpt: FINDING EDWARD, A Novel by Sheila Murray

May 28, 2024May 13, 2022 by James M. Fisher

An excerpt from Sheila Murray’s debut novel, Finding Edward from Cormorant Books.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction, First Book Tags excerpt, fiction

Excerpt from “Science Poetry and Jim Johnstone: A Lyric Essay” by Shane Neilson*,**

April 25, 2022 by Shane Neilson

This is an excerpt from a forthcoming essay by Shane Neilson regarding science poetry and his friend, Jim Johnstone.

Categories Essay, Excerpt Tags Jim Johnstone, Poetry, science, shane neilson

Excerpt: Bodies in Trouble by Diane Carley

May 28, 2024April 18, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Bodies in Trouble, depicts characters coping with faltering relationships, simmering violence, and light-drenched visions.

Categories Excerpt, Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags excerpt, short stories

Excerpt: Falling for You by Barb Curtis

May 28, 2024March 7, 2022 by James M. Fisher

The following is an excerpt from Barb Curtis’ newest novel, Falling for You (Sapphire Springs Book 3). It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. It will be released March 29, 2022

Categories Excerpt, Fiction, Romance Tags excerpt, romance

Excerpt: Dear Braveheart – A Caregiver’s Loving Journey Through Alzheimer’s Dementia by Sheridan Rondeau

May 28, 2024February 28, 2022 by James M. Fisher

An excerpt from Dear Braveheart – A Caregiver’s Loving Journey Through Alzheimer’s Dementia by Sheridan Rondeau, published by Crossfield Publishing.

Categories Excerpt, Memoirs, Non-Fiction Tags alzheimers, dementia, excerpt

Excerpt: Brought Down by Simon Constam

May 28, 2024January 24, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Brought Down by Simon Constam struggles with daily life as a firm believer and continuing pride in Jewish identity.

Categories Excerpt, Poetry Tags excerpt, Poetry, Simon Constam
Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 … Page4 Page5 Page6 Next →

The Miramichi Reader
Canada

about Us

Contact US

Support Us!

TMR Site search

© 2025| THE Miramichi Reader

  • TMR Home Page
  • Non-Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
    • Chapbooks
  • Children
  • Interviews
  • Why I Wrote This Book
  • Itty Bitty Reviews
  • Excerpt
  • TMR Team Page
  • Support TMR
  • Contact Us
  • Search
The Miramichi Reader
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}