Monthly Archives: March 2012
Book Award Nomination Round-up
Wow! What a week it’s been around the Fernwood HQ. We’ve had three (!!!) of our books nominated for awards. First off, Gloria Wesley’s Chasing Freedom has been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature by the … Continue reading
Fernwood Authors Nominated for Manitoba Book Awards
We’d like to send a massive congratulations to Jim Silver and David Camfield for having their books nominated for a Manitoba Book Award. Silver’s Good Places to Live and Camfield’s Canadian Labour in Crisis are both up for the Alexander … Continue reading
Fernwood Staff and Authors team up in Spelling Bee
March 8 was the fundraiser for the annual Word on the Street festival in Halifax. Fernwood’s own Nancy Malek and Stacey Byrne teamed up with authors Richard Zurawski (Media Mediocrity) and Gloria Wesley (Chasing Freedom)Â squaring off against a multitude of … Continue reading
Open Letter to CAUT, re: U of T and WU Access Copyright agreements
Open Letter to CAUT: We are writing to express our deep disappointment with the position CAUT has taken regarding the on-going copyright dispute between post-secondary educational institutions and ACCESS Copyright (AC). Fernwood Publishing has always been in support of CAUT … Continue reading
Chris Benjamin at Atlantic Book Awards Society
Drive-by Saviours author, journalist and all-around great guy Chris Benjamin is participating in a conversation with author Alexander MacLeod, and several other writers, on March 21 at Neptune’s Studio Theatre. The event starts at 7 pm and is a fundraiser … Continue reading