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 […]
Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
- 04/09/2006
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Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
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 […]
- 04/02/2006
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Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
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 […]
Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
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 […]
- 03/24/2006
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Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
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 […]
- 03/19/2006
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Stephen Kimber’s freelance journalism appears in local, regional, national and international publications.
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 […]
- 05/21/0610
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STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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