Forest & Trees
A radio documentary about the decades-old leases allowing forestry companies to clear-cut on Crown land in Nova Scotia.
Bernadette Eisenhower’s Story of Surviving Shubenacadie Indian Residential School
Sadly, Halifax Magazine shut down its website of archived articles. Some issues are still available at Issuu.com. Below are screenshots of one article I was most proud of, a collaboration with Shubenacadie Residential School survivor Bernadette Eisenhower to tell her story. It is a hard story, a true story, and it is told by someone […]
My Favourite Reads of the Year
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. […]
Meribah
Art by Geordan Moore
The Art of Forgiveness: Stories of youthful male angst populated by characters struggling to prove their worth
“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 […]
Introducing Chasing Paradise: A Hitchhiker’s Search for Home in a World At War With Itself
“…original in tone – droll, serious, and loving, of the world, and its wacky and wonderful people – and expansive in subject matter.”
My Interview at NFReads
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 Scales Project
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 […]
