Join the great folks at Dartmouth Book Exchange for an informal Saturday morning author Meet & Greet with the Pottersfield Prize Winners for Creative Nonfiction!
The first-place winners of the Seventh Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction were co-authors James MacDuff and Mirriam Mweemba for The Illogical Adventure, and second-place was Matthew R. Anderson for Someone Else’s Saint.
The Illogical Adventure recounts the story of an unlikely cross-cultural, cross-continental romance between two independent-minded travellers during the Covid pandemic and beyond. Mirriam Mweemba is from the small village of Batoka in Zambia, and James MacDuff is a Maritimer who grew up in Moncton and has called Halifax home for over twenty years. The memoir is told from each of their perspectives in an alternating fashion.
In Someone Else's Saint, seasoned walker and historian Matthew Anderson, hoping to uncover the elusive Saint Ninian, treks the traditional Scottish pilgrim ways associated with the saint, only to find that the trail leads to Nova Scotia, where Ninian's story intertwines with Acadian, Mi'kmaw, Loyalist, and Gaelic history. Matthew R. Anderson grew up in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, spent almost 35 years in Montreal and now lives in Pomquet, Nova Scotia.
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