2021 The Miramichi Reader

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Winners of “The Very Best!” Book Awards for 2021

June 23, 2021June 17, 2021 by James M. Fisher

The Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards are all new for 2021. Four categories, four winners and four honourable mentions. The winners were also selected by an external jury (aside from the Non-fiction category which was overseen by James). All judges expressed how hard it was to narrow each or their respective categories down to two, not to mention having to pick one winner. Congrats to all of the 'chosen ones' as well as the authors whose books appeared on the 2021 longlist.

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Announcing “The Very Best!” Book Awards Longlist for 2021!

June 15, 2021May 23, 2021 by James M. Fisher

The Miramichi Reader’s popular “The Very Best!” Book Awards (“the Vee-Bahs”) are very different for 2021. To simplify things, we have only four categories: Novels, Non-Fiction, Short Fiction, and Poetry. From the following longlist, our jury (this is new, too!) … Continue reading

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2021 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist

April 16, 2021 by James M. Fisher

The much-anticipated Atlantic Book Awards shortlist has been announced and The Miramichi Reader has reviewed a good portion of them over the past year or so. Thirteen, to be exact! Here are all the categories with links to the reviews. Congrats to all those that made this list!

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The Globe & Mail’s Winter 2021 Books Preview: 36 fiction and non-fiction reads to cozy up with

January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Escape between the pages of a book this season with our roundup of page-turning fiction and timely non-fiction coming out over the next few months in 2021.

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Here is the Canada Reads 2021 longlist (CBC Books)

January 9, 2021January 7, 2021 by James M. Fisher

2020 was a year like no other. As we start 2021 and look forward to the 20th edition of Canada Reads, we are reminded that books can be a safe place to go when times are tough.

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TMR’s Recommended Reads for 2020/2021 Part I

February 14, 2021November 8, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Since the most recent “The Very Best!” Book Awards were announced in September 2020, the TMR team of Contributors have been reading and reviewing full-tilt for the 2020/2021 reading year. November is an ideal time to take stock of what … Continue reading

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Seeking Shade By Frances Boyle

July 18, 2021October 11, 2020 by Valerie Mills-Milde

In Frances Boyle's short story collection Seeking Shade, nuanced characters endure trauma, evolution and epiphany as they face challenges, make decisions, and suffer the inevitable consequences.

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If You Discover A Fire by Shaun Robinson

July 18, 2021April 5, 2020 by Chris Banks

In his first poetry collection If You Discover A Fire from Brick Books, Shaun Robinson spins out poems that describe, in precise detail, a faded and fallen world.