Scott Fotheringham will be attending a book launch in Kingston on Monday April 22 to promote the recently released paperback copy of The Rest is Silence and we wanted to celebrate by listing some of the achievements and reviews!

Did you know The Rest is Silence was shortlisted for three awards? These include the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award, and the Ottawa Book Award. Not to mention the manuscript won the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia H.R. (Bill) Percy Prize in 2009.

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is coming to Crave for Earth Day.

This cinematic project premieres on world television and streaming on Saturday, April 20 at 9 p.m. ET, followed by a re-air on Earth Day at 10 p.m. ET on Bell Media’s Crave.

A special event in Woodstock on April 24^th will offer a chance to get familiar with Alden Nowlan’s poetry.

Alden Nowlan: Woodstock Remembers a Great Poet, will be held at 7 P.M. The list of readers includes Jenn Carson, Lynn Davies, current UNB Writer in Residence Phil Hall and Brian Bartlett.

The award, presented in Toronto on April 17^th at the CMA’s 2019 National Conference, was the latest honour for the book, film and gallery project, which was deemed by judges as “nationally significant and exceeded the current standard of practice by going beyond the conventional approach.”

In 1927 five women brought a case to the Supreme Court of Canada to establish the right of women to be appointed to the Senate. These women were Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney, and Irene Parlby. At the time women were not legally recognized as “persons” and could be denied rights based on narrow interpretations of the law. In fact, while some women in Canada gained the right to vote in 1916, many women — particularly women of colour — did not. By 1960, all women in Canada won the right to vote.

In recognition of the “Famous Five” bringing this case to the SCC, we have chosen five of our women authors to spotlight for Women’s History Month. These authors produce award-winning writing we love to read, and we’ve included some of their reviews and interviews as well.

Here’s a brief book list for our “Famous Five” interpretation: