The Village Series brings writers to North Shore villages year round!

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Linden MacIntyre Read in Scotsburn on Monday, April 12th @ 7:30 p.m. to a full house

The Linden MacIntyre Village Series reading was a huge success. More than 200 people flocked to the Scotsburn Firehall where Linden enthralled us all with his stories and with readings from his Giller-winning novel, The Bishop’s Man. This was the first time Read by the Sea has held a reading in Scotsburn and we were well and truly welcomed.
Thanks to the Atlantic Book Festival and the Canada Council for the Arts for helping to bring Linden in, and thanks to the Scotsburn Book Club for donations of refreshments.

On October 5, 2009, a “Harvest of Poetry” was held at the beautiful Wallace and Area Museum, with two Toronto Poets reading from their latest collections.  Kevin Connolly read from Revolver, “a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination”, and Matthew Tierney read from The Hayflick Limit, “the most thoroughly engaged and inventive work of poetry in a long time”.

In October 2008 Read by the Sea, in partnership with Gaspereau Press, presented a “Harvest of Poetry” featuring Karen Houle and Johanna Skibsrud at the Meadowville Community Centre.  Karen read from her second collection of poetry, During, and Johanna read in her home village from her first poetry collection, Late Nights with Wild Cowboys.

In September 2008 Tim Wynne Jones read from a number of his children’s and young adult books at the Tatamagouche Elementary School.

In April 2008 Read by the Sea hosted Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay. She read from Late Nights on Air to a rapt audience at the Caribou River Fire Hall.

The First Poets’ Picnic took place in February 2008 at the Sunrise Merchantile, just outside Tatamagouche, to an enthusiastic, standing room only audience.  The award winning poets, Anne Simpson, Peter Sanger, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn, each captivated the audience with their ability to create distinct images and share ideas.

Read by the Sea launched The Village Series in March of 2007 in Pugwash and New Glasgow with readings by Peter Behrens, the winner of the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for his novel, The Law of Dreams.