My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases (that you won't see lots of other places) plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.
Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose, and her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Grain, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.
In this interview, I chat with Amanda Peters about The Berry Pickers, how she decided to write this story, writing in first person, choosing who would narrate the story, writing a character study, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and …