A feature of the evening was the presentation of the 2026 Atlantic Legacy Award to Stephen Kimber.

By Stephen Kimber The Miramichi Reader, which now cheekily bills itself as “Canada’s best-regarded source for the finest in new literary releases,” actually began “as a lark” in 2015. James Fisher, an MRI technologist at New Brunswick’s Miramichi Regional Hospital, happened to be sitting around the break table one day talking books with a few colleagues. […]