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Pages in category "Writers from Nova Scotia" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A descendent of Black Loyalists, Tynes was born on 30 June 1949 and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She contracted polio at age 4, which left her right leg paralyzed. [1] Unable to attend school for several years due to her illness, Tynes was taught to read and write by her mother Ada Maxwell Tynes, a homemaker. [2]
David Huebert is a Canadian writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. [1]Huebert, at the time a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of Western Ontario, was a winner of the CBC Literary Prize in the short stories category in 2016 for the story "Enigma".
Wilson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 2, 1927. Her father, Maynard Brown Archibald, was a judge; her mother was Helen MacGregor Archibald. [1] Wilson studied philosophy and psychology at Dalhousie University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949. [1] [2] She then undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Toronto from ...
She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she has taught writing at NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University) and Dalhousie University.. She has a master's degree in English literature from Dalhousie University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario, and has worked extensively as a workshop leader and mentor to new and emerging writers.
Cameron served as writer-in-residence at two universities in Nova Scotia as well as at the University of Prince Edward Island. He was dean of the School of Community Studies at Cape Breton University and served as its first Farley Mowat Chair in Environment.
Clarke has self-published much of his work, including seventeen collections of poetry, two novels and four works of drama and opera. He has also served as editor for collections of African-Canadian writers and poets in anthologies and studies such as Border Lines (1995), Eyeing the North Star (1997), Odysseys Home (2002), Fire on the Water (2002), Directions Home (2012) and Locating Home (2017).
Nova Scotia writer, Harry Thurston found that Simmins's essays explore "a wide emotional territory" and that the book "is an inward journey into the depths and shallows of love and loss, an emotional landscape as complex and winding as the two coastlines where the drama of her personal life plays out." [2]