Practicing My Craft: A Guest Post by Amanda Peters
Our 2023 Discover Prize winner is back, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Taking you from the past to the…
Amanda Peters
AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Amanda Peters has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, with her fur babies, Holly and Pook.
Dreams Can Come True: A Guest Post by Amanda Peters
It’s been one year since Amanda Peters’ debut The Berry Pickers was announced as our 2023 Discover Prize winner, and…
Art is Essential to Our Culture: Amanda Peters and Mi’kma’ki Artists
Dear Readers, Earlier this month I had the absolute thrill of coming to New York and finding out that I’d…
The Story Was There for the Telling: An Exclusive Guest Post from Amanda Peters, Author of The Berry Pickers
In my debut novel, The Berry Pickers, a young Mi’kmaq girl named Ruthie is kidnapped from the blueberry fields of…