Best Poetry of 2021
Here is the third and final category of 2021 to be recognized: Poetry. The seven selections below, as with our Best Fiction and Best Non-Fiction lists, were chosen by our team of contributors.
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Best Non-Fiction of 2021
To complement our “Best Fiction of 2021” list, we will now turn our attention to the best non-fiction of the year. The eight selections below are based on the recommendations of The Miramichi Reader’s fine team of contributors.
Best Canadian Stories 2021, edited by Diane Schomperlen
Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters.
Listicle: Ten Outstanding #ReadAtlantic Books of 2021
It has been a watershed year for Atlantic Canadian Books. You will find 180 of them in the #GiftAtlantic collection. The books there cover all genres and age ranges, with dozens of choices in each category. Distilling this down to 10 standout ones is a herculean task,
Best Flanker Press Titles of 2021
As the province’s most active publisher of trade books, Flanker Press averages twenty new titles per year, with a heavy emphasis on regional non-fiction and historical fiction. The mission of Flanker Press is to provide a quality publishing service to … Continue reading
Winners of “The Very Best!” Book Awards for 2021
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.
Announcing “The Very Best!” Book Awards Longlist for 2021!
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
2021 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist
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!
The Globe & Mail’s Winter 2021 Books Preview: 36 fiction and non-fiction reads to cozy up with
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.
Here is the Canada Reads 2021 longlist (CBC Books)
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.
TMR’s Recommended Reads for 2020/2021 Part I
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
Seeking Shade By Frances Boyle
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.
If You Discover A Fire by Shaun Robinson
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.