Winning Prizes is a collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from faith, murder, love of place as well as historical and literary individuals. David Adams Richards writes passionately about individuality and the courage it takes to strike out on one’s own.

Author Katie Ingram will be giving a talk on how she uses archival records to tell stories like that of her latest book, The Undesirables: The History of Rockhead Prison. This Saturday, March 28 at 2pm at the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia. Open to the public.

Come celebrate the changing of the seasons with one of Canada's best poets, reading from her newest collection, Spring Theory. An evening with Wanda Campbell. Wednesday, April 1, 2026 7:00 p.m. | Atrium 101, SMU Campus Admission free | All welcome

What seas sing through our bones is a journey poem and a queer love story co-created and recounted during a time of war, censorship and extreme border control. In a voyage that runs from Nova Scotia to San Diego, then along the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Non-Prophet (by @quratdar.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social) & The Austens (by @sarahemsley.bsky.social, @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

When an elderly father breaks decades of silence, his daughter embarks on a search through records to uncover her parents’ hidden wartime past. Debut author Alice Switocz Goldbloom discovers not just her family’s stories in Nazi-occupied Poland, but a broader tragedy that touched Polish families.

No one government or person will stop me from writing. I came into the world as a writer in childhood and I will leave as one. It’s not over. Defend NS books. Lift up voices. Don’t be a part of silencing them! Solidarity. @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

AN HONOUR - This post from my NS Publisher Pottersfield Press for International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8 - which underlines why NS Arts and Culture, and in our case, Publishing, is imperative to amplifying voices and diverse subject matter. Thank you. ❤️ @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

We are a couple days early posting this, but it deserves to be celebrated multiple days. International Women's Day is this Sunday and we want to recognize some of our female local authors who blaze trails with their stories. Stories that are more important now than ever before.

Nova Scotia budget backlash: Tim Houston’s government getting booed, criticized - Halifax | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1171354... #defendnsbooks @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @afterwordsliterary.bsky.social

My NS AUTHOR friend Moira MacLeod had this made for me as a birthday present! It’s me with my pink glasses and lipstick reading my latest NS PUBLISHED book, Every Little Thing! The NS ARTIST who made it is Susie McEvoy. This is one example of NS Arts and Culture. 👄💕 @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

Get lost in this fantastic fictional story about The Queen Anne House. This novel, spanning over two hundred years, is the story of one house and the amazing people who lived there on the high ground in Cumberland County.

New reader review for The Undesirables. A fantastic and well-researched book by author Katie Ingram about a prison that resided in the north end of Halifax years ago. Who knew eh?

It’s a hefty pile. These are some of my books from Nova Scotian and Atlantic Canadian writers, some near and some far - gone to the great library in the sky. I grew up in a house of readers. Let’s ensure the kids today and the next generation have the same chance! 👏 @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

Less than 60 days until the deadline! Pottersfeld Press is looking for submissions from writers who can provide a manuscript of 30,000 to 150,000 words that uses the nonfiction medium. DEADLINE IS APRIL 30, 2026. For more information, visit: www.pottersfieldpress.com

A lovely review of The Austens from the most recent issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, published in the UK.

Please take a few minutes out of your day to read the text in this post and then share far and wide. #defendnsbooks

As an NS author, I’m outraged. Funding for ALL NS book publishers, many museums and others has been stripped. This will have devastating longterm impacts on our communities and culture. Don’t brush this off. Literacy is important to critical thinking skills, problem solving, and community building.

As a NS author I'm more than upset, so I made a little video. My thoughts on the budget cut for publishers can be found on Instagram (video is too long for Bluesky) @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social etc www.instagram.com/p/DVOqxOGEZt5/ #defendnspublishers

February is Black History Month, and this fantastic book, Black and Bluenose by Charles Saunders is a perfect choice to read and honour black history here in Nova Scotia.

In his elegant and precise prose, Curtis moves and entertains readers with stories about a variety of memorable characters. In each of these tales, he captures a way of life that he both lived and remembers. Each story exhibits his love of that life and his understanding of the emotions it evokes.

"In this beautiful memoir, readers can trust Weber to guide them on the complicated journey of grief, knowing she has wrung beauty and insight from her own experience. This book is a treasure, and a stunning read that stayed with me long after I turned the final page." - Dr. Kelly S. Thompson

"Sarah Emsley's The Austens is a remarkable work of historical reconstruction as well as a suspenseful, informative and often very moving entertainment, one that you don't have to be a Jane Austen enthusiast to enjoy." lan Colford - The Seaboard Reivew of Books.

Is one of your 2026 goals to have your book published? Pottersfeld Press is looking for submissions from writers who can provide a manuscript in any nonfiction medium to tell a story or put forward an idea. For more information, visit: www.pottersfieldpress.com

In case you missed it, our winter edition newsletter is now out. You can read it here ->https://www.pottersfieldpress.com/news-events. Hint...there's a sneak peek at what's coming this spring!

Guess who is on Substack? Give Lesley Choyce a follow to hear about his latest book, his winter surfing adventures and more. lesleychoyce.substack.com

Listen to the recent CBC Information Morning Interview sharing an amazing connection discovered as a result of the book cover from Through My Looking Glass Nova Scotia: A 50 Year Photographic Retrospective (1973-2023). It's one of those heartfelt Nova Scotia Stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Pottersfield is saddened to hear of the loss of an important voice in the Nova Scotian Black community. If you have never heard Eddie's story and 50 year plight against racism here in Nova Scotia, The Hermit of Africville is still available to order via Nimbus Publishing. nimbus.ca/store/the-he...

Tomorrow is #ValentinesDay. You wouldn't associate Rockhead with the day, but that doesn't mean there wasn't romance. Frequent Rockhead guests Ritz Lantz and Nellie Roy's double wedding made the paper. You can read more about Rita and Nellie in The Undesirables! @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

Our bestsellers for 2025! Which ones have you read and which ones are on your TBR list?

"Written in a clear, engaging style, the reader gets a look at the archaic "correctional" measures of the time period. Clearly, Katie Ingram researched Rockhead thoroughly to assemble this fascinating little-known part of Halifax's history." James M. Fisher- The Seaboard Review of Books

Our winter edition newsletter dropped last night. Hint...there's a sneak peek at what's coming this spring! Read all about it here -> tinyurl.com/26r2y3wf

It's an oldie, but a great one for Valentine's Day. And still in stock in many bookstores and online. In Nova Scotia Love Stories, Lesley Choyce has assembled some of the province’s most beloved authors who explore through fact and fiction the myriad ways in which a love story exists.

Valentine's Day is approaching so we are highlighting some books that feel like a warm hug over the next week to give to your Valentine...or yourself! First up is The Illogical Adventure: A Memoir of Love and Fate. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-il...

February is Black History Month, and this fantastic book, Black and Bluenose by Charles Saunders is a perfect choice to read and honour black history here in Nova Scotia.

Happening this Thursday!

"I loved In Search of Puffins, I didn't want it to end. Marjorie's story is heartfelt, intimate, honest, and delightful. I was so inspired by her determination to find joy in life after such a devastating loss. It made me cry, laugh, and it left me feeling uplifted and hopeful." - Reader Review

In his elegant and precise prose, Curtis moves and entertains readers with stories about a variety of memorable characters. In each of these tales, he captures a way of life that he both lived and remembers. Each story exhibits his love of that life and his understanding of the emotions it evokes.

Our winter edition newsletter will be coming out next week! Subscribe (link in bio) to get it in your inbox. Subscribe here -> pottersfieldpress.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

The SMU Reading Series presents a special evening with author Sarah Emsley, who will read from her acclaimed novel, 'The Austens'. Come celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth and learn more about her family connections to Halifax! Thurs, Feb 5 | 7-9 pm. Sobey Building at @smuhalifax

"In this beautiful memoir, readers can trust Weber to guide them on the complicated journey of grief, knowing she has wrung beauty and insight from her own experience. This book is a treasure, and a stunning read that stayed with me long after I turned the final page." - Dr. Kelly S. Thompson

Is one of your 2026 goals to have your book published? Pottersfeld Press is looking for submissions from writers who can provide a manuscript in any nonfiction medium to tell a story or put forward an idea. For more information, visit: www.pottersfieldpress.com

I'm always up for talking about archival sources and Rockhead, and I'm doing both on March 28th! I'll be giving a lecture, The Story of Rockhead: Telling History Through Snippets of Story, for the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia. #halifax #halifaxhistory @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

"Written in a clear, engaging style, the reader gets a look at the archaic "correctional" measures of the time period. Clearly, Katie Ingram researched Rockhead thoroughly to assemble this fascinating little-known part of Halifax's history." James M. Fisher- The Seaboard Review of Books

"Sarah Emsley's The Austens is a remarkable work of historical reconstruction as well as a suspenseful, informative and often very moving entertainment, one that you don't have to be a Jane Austen enthusiast to enjoy." lan Colford - The Seaboard Reivew of Books.

In Search of Puffins is the third book in a series of memoirs, beginning with Coastal Lives and Year of the Horse. Marjorie Simmins completed this third memoir after the death of her husband, writer Silver Donald Cameron. In Search of Puffins is a story of love and loss, reinvention and humour.

Voted a top 10 local bestseller for 2025 at Indigo/Chapters. Janice Landry takes us on a journey that proves in the end that the little things really are the big things.

Nova Scotia is the cradle of an African Canadian community that has existed for hundreds of years. During that time, Black Nova Scotians have shared triumphs and tragedies similar to those other communities of colour in North America, yet they have also developed a culture that is unique.

Wanda Campbell’s sixth poetry collection, Spring Theory, meets the chaos of the current times with forms that are fractured and familiar in poems of lament and love, hunger and hope. It moves from exploring the darkness of fall to capturing spring’s rejuvenating light.

In his elegant and precise prose, Curtis moves and entertains readers with stories about a variety of memorable characters. In each of these tales, he captures a way of life that he both lived and remembers. Each story exhibits his love of that life and his understanding of the emotions it evokes.