Christy Ann Conlin is the next featured author in our Acadia Alumni Book Club series. We invite you to read her work, Heave, now and plan to meet her and join the conversation on Monday, December 2, 7-8 p.m., during our next virtual Book Club meeting.

REGISTRATION: If you would like to participate, please e-mail Events Coordinator Victoria Hendrycks at: victoria.hendrycks@acadiau.ca.

We look forward to seeing you, and please keep in mind Book Club members do not have to be Acadia affiliates; the Club is open to everyone. You can register anytime and participate in the session of your choice.

So far, we’ve looked at the Honourable Donald Oliver’s (’50, ’07 HON) highly anticipated autobiography, A Matter of Equality:  The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver; Jim Prime’s (’69) and Ben Robicheau’s fictional comedy, Fish and Dicks: Case Files from Digby Neck and Islands Fish-Gutting Service and Detective Agency; Two Crows Sorrow, a work of creative fiction by Laura Churchill Duke (’98); Peter Cleveland’s (’72) Double Shot of Scotch; Deborah Hemming’s, Throw Down Your Shadows; Tony Thomson’s About Face: A Mystery; Andria Hill-Lehr’s Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, From Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe; and most recently, Amanda Peters’s The Berry Pickers.

Author's bio:

Christy Ann Conlin is the author of three acclaimed novels: Heave, The Memento and The Speed of Mercy. She is also the author of Watermark, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, and the Evergreen Award.

Heave was a national bestseller, a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Dartmouth Book Award and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. The Memento appeared on Booknet’s 2016 Top 10 List of bestselling ghost stories. Conlin's writing has appeared in numerous literary journals including Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Geist, Room, Guernica, Hazlitt, and The Globe and Mail.

Her stories have been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the American Short Fiction Prize. Conlin's broadcast/podcast work includes co-creating/hosting CBC Fear Itself, a national summer radio series, along with documentaries for CBC Outfront, CBC Arts Tonight and CBC Halifax Information Morning. Christy Ann was born and raised in seaside Nova Scotia, where she still resides with her big quirky sandwich generation family. Her first graphic novel, Full Bleed: I am Werner Herzog, will be published by Conundrum press in 2026.