Geoff Butler, RCA, is a painter, writer and amateur musician. His work is a mixture of realism and fantasy. As it tends to comment on the human condition, he is influenced by just about anything he hears or reads about in the world at large. He often uses humour, particularly satire, as a way to approach serious issues.
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Michelle Hébert's debut novel, "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" (Vagrant 2024) was a Toronto Star Top 20 'Must Read' and a 49thShelf.com Book of the Year. Her memoir, "A Good Girl’s Guide to Lying: Losing my Memory, Searching for Truth, & Living with Dissociative Amnesia" will be published in Fall 2026. She lives in Halifax, NS.
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After many years teaching in northern communities, Anne M. Smith-Nochasak has come home to live in the woods of western Nova Scotia. She sometimes teaches locally when she misses teaching, but mainly she is home writing and problem-solving life without power tools. She has self-published four novels featuring Nova Scotia settings, from rural living to dystopian Nova Scotia. is a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. She shares her accommodations with her dog and cat.
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Based, Wolfville, Mi'kma'kiTrained: RADA (UK), Canadian Film Centre, Women In The Director’s Chair, NY Writers Lab, Whistler Producer’s Lab.Awards: Gemini/ACTRA for screen performances including The Child Remains, Splinters, Trailer Park Boys. Merritt/Dora’s for stage. NS Masterworks 2022 for first feature Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor. Writer/Director Translations, CBC Gem (2025).Debut novel, Roar (2023) nominated for Dartmouth Book Awards First novel & OLA’s Evergreen Award. Winter Sky - Short Story collection - due out Oct 2025).
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James O. Weeks taught English in high schools and community college for forty years. He published articles in professional journals and short genre fiction (Wilderness Tales) while teaching young adults about writing. His work appears in Moose House’s second collection of short fiction, Blink and You’ll Miss It, and Nodding’s People is his debut novel. Beyond the classroom, Jim has worked as a swimming pool manager, camp counselor, liquor store clerk and deli meat slicer. For twelve years he was a driver and pump operator for a volunteer fire department. Jim and his wife (a fifth generation Nova Scotian) live in Lunenburg, NS.
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