Before resuming life’s usual chaos, allow me to tell you a little about a dozen books that were my favourite reads of the year (in the order I read them): 1. The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de WaalGreat depth of research spinning together politics, art, and family history in a very personal narrative. […]
Art by Geordan Moore
“Chris Benjamin’s mode of writing is raw, unvarnished, heartrending dirty realism. His characters are tormented youngsters left to navigate the fallout from family tragedy on their own while struggling to locate a moral compass to guide them through the emotional minefield of adolescence. The Art of Forgiveness is heady stuff, a careening ride without guardrails through chaotic […]
Tony Earnes of NFReads.com kindly invited me to participate in an author interview, something of a Proust questionnaire, rapid fire. Fun questions and I hope you enjoy the answers.
The wonderful Bethany Gibson recently honoured me with an invitation to contribute something literary to her online art project, The Scales Project, “a conversation between artists … a call-and-response, a provocation, and a forum for connection and communication through art about the climate crisis and ecological collapse.” Going through the posts from other artists, I […]
The following is an excerpt from a feature story about Atlantic Canadian writers who were finalists in CBC’s annual short story contest, written by Chris Benjamin and published in Atlantic Books Today in April 2016. The CBC announced yesterday that David Huebert, who grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has won this year’s prestigious
