August 2019

National award

Portrait of a Prospector by Bruce Craig

University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) history department professor Bruce Craig has been awarded the 2019 Mary Lee Spence Documentary Book Award pr...

Takako

A gift of Island poetry

Bren Simmers

Strollers stake out shady maples    while kids ride noodles       in the wading pool, bob in water wings. Moms up to their    knees cool o...

Welcome to Camp

Fill-in-the-Blank

Hope Dalvay will launch her new book Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the Blank (Acorn Press) on August 3 at 1 pm at the Confederation Centre Public Library in...

Illustrated History of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island

Georges Arsenault

Island researcher and historian, Georges Arsenault is launching a new book, Illustrated History of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island. It will be pu...

Anne of Green Gables

The Original Manuscript

A new volume from Nimbus Publishing showing L.M. Montgomery’s creative process in crafting one of the world’s most famous novels will be officiall...

Historic PEI—Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island

Ed McKenna

Edward J (Ed) McKenna will launch his new book Historic PEI: Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island on August 7 at Beaconsfield House in Charlottet...

Takako

Poetry on Tiptoes

A new project, “Poetry on Tiptoes,” is planned in the lead up to the Gold Cup & Saucer Parade, which occurs at the culmination of Charlottetow...

Pond Lullaby

Jane Ledwell

Sleep, my damselfly, wings pressed in mute prayer. Cease, my whirligig, spinning pond-skin to air. Let all water striders take rest from their strid...

RED: The Island Story Book

Volume 20

RED magazine has assembled another collection of fine Island tales for your adirondack chair sitting, gentle hammock swaying, summer reading pleasure....

Return Engagement under the Linden Tree

Doris Ewart, Shannon Murray, Richard Furlong

The book launch for the Return Engagement under the Linden Tree is scheduled for July 7, from 2 to 4 pm at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House in Charlott...

From War to Peace; 1919

PEI Soldiers Return from the Great War

If you have an interest in the First World War or are a collector of PEI history books, you don’t want to miss acquiring a free copy of the Culture ...

Imagining Anne

The Island Scrapbooks Of L.M. Montgomery

Nimbus Publishing’s new edition of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery will be launched on July 25, from 2:30–3:30 pm , in th...

Takako

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood comes to Charlottetown on October 4

Charlottetown’s Bookmark is presenting an evening with Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor Margaret Atwood to celebrate the public...

Lady and the Plant(s)

Kathy Birt

When Island author Kathy Birt launched her book of fiction, Lady and the Plant(s) in 2017, she had no idea that, then Liberal MLA Allen Roach would le...

How Could You Forget This?

Chris Bailey

Don’t forget where you came from. Simple. Easy like dropping a slut rock tied to a herring net off the boat’s stern, sidestepping rusted chains...

Everybody loves Anne

Right after I finished reading Anne of Green Gables I started watching the show Russian Doll on Netflix. It’s about a red-headed, fast-talking New Y...

Poetry in Voice finalist

Montague Regional High School student Berry Genge has been selected as a national finalist to the Poetry In Voice national poetry reciting competition...

Lackadaisy

A look at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery exhibition: Who’s Your Mother?

A local ‘zine that focuses on the voices of young Island female artists is featuring the Confederation Centre Art Gallery’s Who’s Your Mother? e...

The Red Fox / Le Renard Roux

Leona Arsenault

The Red Fox / Le Renard Roux, by Leona Arsenault, is full images and facts about the red fox. The book is well-timed, following the naming of the red ...

The Confederation Bridge/ Pont de la Conféderation

Leona Arsenault

The Confederation Bridge connects Prince Edward Island with the rest of the Maritime provinces. The bridge became a much-debated item throughout the 1...

The Devil May Lie

Mima

Mima (aka Michelle M. Arsenault) has recently published her 11th book. The Devil May Lie is be the sixth book in the criminal-suspense Hernandez serie...

Seeing Red

Thomas O'Grady

Blizzard-bound, snowed under, walled-in … swallowed by a whirling world of white, a mapless maze of shifting waist-deep drifts, he wades and wa...

Takako

Delivering the News

Thomas O'Grady

Join Thomas O’Grady at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown May 15 at 7 pm for the launch of his new book of poetry, Delivering the...

Poetry In Voice

Montague student is national finalist

Montague Regional High School student Berry Genge has been selected as a national finalist to the Poetry In Voice national poetry reciting competition...

Takako

French for the Future

National Essay Contest results

French for the Future has announced the results of its 14th edition of the National Essay Contest. More than 500 students participated from coast to...

Prayer to Morning

Spoken word poetry by Bob Jensen

Spoken word poet Bob Jensen has published his second audio book, Prayer to Morning, a collection of 20 spoken word poems featuring the guitar work of ...

RED number 19 is out

RED number 19 is now available with pieces by many of the magazine’s regular contributors. George Arsenault is onboard with another in his “Shut...

Casebook One: A Knock in the Dark

Five Crow Road, a new publishing company based in eastern PEI, is introducing the world to the Terra Obscura Chronicles, a globe-trotting adventure se...

My Letters to the Editor Book Two

Island author Kathy Birt is about to launch My Letters to the Editor Book Two with more of her letters to The Guardian editorial pages. This is the au...

The Amulet of Fire

Filipina-Canadian author Cindy Lapeña is releasing The Amulet of Fire, the sequel to her first novel, The Lost Amulets, publicly at the first Island ...

Like A Song

Susan Rodgers has released her latest book, Like A Song, the second book in the Dallas White series. Like A Song is, in some ways, the sixteenth book ...