What’s on at the Festival: Literary Workshops

Have you always wanted to write a novel or memoir? Do you have a book you want to self-publish? Or would you just like to take a little time to explore and develop your inner poet/writer? Wherever your interests lie, there’s a workshop for you at the Northumberland Festival of the Arts, September 16 –…

A Residential School Memoir: a review by Diane Taylor

We first posted this review August 13, 2021. A shorter version subsequently appeared in The Globe and Mail. “A book should be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” said Franz Kafka. Such a book is The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir published in 2015 by the University of Regina Press….

A Residential School Memoir – A Review by Diane Taylor

“A book should be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” said Franz Kafka. Such a book is The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir published in 2015 by the University of Regina Press. Just seventy-three pages, this book represents one Cree man’s experience with abuses he endured as a child at…