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.
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All of the 2020 Winners of “The Very Best!” Book Awards!
All of the BRONZE medal winners: See “The Very Best!” Book Awards page for all the links to this year’s and all the past year’s contenders: https://miramichireader.ca/very-best-book-awards/. Happy reading!
2020 “The Very Best!” Book Awards: Best Fiction!
Fiction is undoubtedly the largest genre that gets reviewed here, so it was extremely difficult to narrow down the longlist to the shortlist, then to just three. Here are the three winners in the Fiction category! GOLD: The Tender Birds by Carole Giangrande (Inanna Publishing) SILVER: Lay Figures by Mark Blagrave (Nimbus Publishing) BRONZE: Some …
2020 “The Very Best!” Book Awards: Best Short Fiction Winners!
For 2019, there were only two short fiction books in this particular category, so we declared it a tie. This year, we were blessed with some of the best and imaginative short fiction to choose from. It is difficult to narrow down the shortlist of five titles to three. GOLD: Watermark by Christy Ann Conlin (Astoria, …
2020: “The Very Best!” First Book Winners!
The “Best First Book” award goes to the first published book by an author. It can be either fiction or non-fiction. In their book, the author has demonstrated that their debut book is not a “one-off”. Indeed, the writing should be so good that the reader is eagerly anticipating their next effort. Here are the …
2020 “The Very Best!” Poetry Winners!
2020 was the first year that The Miramichi Reader started reviewing poetry on a regular basis, therefore this is also the first year that we are giving out “The Very Best!” Book Awards in this category. While all of this year’s winners hail from Atlantic Canada, there is so much great poetry being written all …
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.
