Column for April 9, 2006

The truth is it’s fiction… but true “This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between the events and characters depicted herein and actual events or persons, living or deceased, are purely coincidental.” The most interesting revelation of my first full, official week as a published novelist is the number of people who seem to […]

Column for April 2

Hypocrisy, thy name is Harper What should a poor Palestinian make of the latest news out of Ottawa? On the very day last week that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was standing in the phone line queue to be among the first to congratulate Ehud Olmert, Israel’s new prime minister, on his election victory, Harper’s […]

Stephen Kimber at Halifax International Writers' Festival

Stephen Kimber will be one of more than a dozen writers featured during this year’s second annual Halifax International Writers’ Festival at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax from April 5-9. On Sunday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. Kimber will read and discuss his new novel, Reparations. On Thursday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m., he […]

Column for March 26, 2006

Sinking deeper and deeper into the Iraq quagmire Three years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a look back in words and deeds quag·mire: ‘kwag-"mIr, Noun. 1 : soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot. 2 : a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position: predicament. — Merriam Webster Online Dictionary “The successful prosecution […]

Official truth, unofficial consequences

Halifax Daily News March 19, 2006 By Stephen Kimber Why did a 16-year-old boy really attack Canadian army Capt. Trevor Greene with an axe in the Afghan village of Shinkay two weeks ago? And what actually happened in that Kandahar City roundabout last Tuesday night when a Canadian soldier shot and killed an unarmed, middle-aged […]

Sailors, Slackers wins national Torgi Nonfiction Award

Sept. 21, TORONTO: The Canadian National Institute for the Blind Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2004 Torgi Literary Awards, the only awards program in Canada to celebrate books in formats such as PrintBraille and audio. More than 300 guests, including authors, book publishers, CNIB client judges, and CNIB volunteers attended the […]

Kimber takes two top writing awards

A packed audience applauded enthusiastically as winners were announced at the Atlantic Writing Awards late this afternoon at Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth. . . . . . Stephen Kimber with Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War was greeted with riotous applause as he was awarded the Dartmouth Non-fiction Award ($1,500). Also shortlisted […]

Kimber, Morrissey Conlin lead race for Atlantic Book Awards

Thursday, April 24, 2003 The Halifax Herald Limited —————————————– .. Kimber, Morrissey Conlin lead race for Atlantic Book Awards New first-time author’s prize named for John, Margaret Savage By Stephen Pedersen / Arts Reporter A new book award for first-time authors will be offered in the name of former Nova Scotia premier John Savage and […]

The lynch mob meets the expenses scandal

The morning after the big semi-reveal—the auditor general had turned over to the RCMP expense-claims files on one current and four former MLAs, but he wouldn’t say which ones to avoid compromising the criminal investigation—CBC Radio Information Morning’s political panel weighed in. The panelists—veteran freelance journalist Ralph Surrette and former newspaper editor and Tory cabinet […]