2026 Susan Buchanan Hideout Scholar

Nova Scotia writer Corrie Melanson has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Susan Buchanan Hideout Scholarship. Melanson will spend a week at The Hideout this season working on her book project, Safe Harbour, Stories of Rainbow Refugees in Atlantic Canada. This narrative nonfiction book centres queer refugee and private sponsorship stories in Atlantic Canada, with a focus on lived experience, care, and belonging. Winner of multiple Island Literary Awards, as well as a PEI Book Award, Susan Buchanan was a well-loved and deeply admired Island writer and disability rights activist who co-owned a bed and breakfast called Evening Primrose on the Hideout property in North Tryon with her life partner Jeanne Sullivan.