If you’re already on this list, congratulations! You’re in terrific company. If you’re not on this list, keep putting yourself (and more importantly your book) out there. Meanwhile, in case you’re curious, here’s what (I think) the list is so far. If I’ve missed anything, gotten any details wrong, or in some cases don’t know the year you graduated, please let me know.

• Baluja, Tamara (class of 2024) Nav Bhatia: The Heart of a Superfan: A Memoir of Grit, Love, Family, and Basketball, Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.
• Bell, Niko (class of ????) Risk, Freedom, and the Future of Safe Sex, ECW Press, TBD.
• Benembarek, Sheima (class of 2020) Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America. Penguin Random House Canada, 2023. Read my review here.
• Blizzard, Gloria (class of ????) Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, Dundurn Press, 2024.
• Bruce, Alec (class of 2022) The Cooperators: The People Behind the Rebirth of a Nova Scotia Movement, Pottersfield Press, 2024.
• Buxton, Lesley (class of 2016) One Strong Girl: Surviving the Unimaginable—A Mother’s Memoir, Pottersfield Press, 2018. Read my review here.
• Cabral, Esmeralda (class of 2019) How to Clean a Fish: and Other Adventures in Portugal, University of Alberta Press, 2023. Read my review here.
• Carr, Marilyn (class of 2020) Nowhere Like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood, Iguana Books, 2020.
• Cavanaugh, Michaela (class of ????) Present Tense: How We Reckon with the End of the World, McLelland & Stewart, TBD.
• Craigie, Gregor (class of 2019) On Borrowed Time: North America’s Next Big Quake, Goose Lane Editions, 2021.

• Dakin, Pauline (class of 2015) Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, Penguin Random House, 2017. Read my review here.
• Dann, Moira (class of 2016) Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures, Touchstone Editions, 2021.
• Dundas, Deborah (class of 2023) On Class, Biblioasis, 2022.
• Faubert, Marsha (class 2018) Wanda’s War: An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal, Goose Lane Editions, 2023.
• Fish, Amy (class of 2023) One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity, Goose Lane Editions, 2025.
• Fogarty, Catherine (class of 2018) Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary, Biblioasis, 2021. Read my review here.

• Fowles, Stacey May (class of 2015) The Girl in the Woods, McLelland &Stewart, 2018.
• Francuz, Joan (class of 2016) Press Enter to Continue: Scribes from Babylon to Silicon, 1920 House Press, 2018.
• Fraser, Kim (class of 2021) The Accidental Caregiver: Wisdom and Guidance for the Unexpected Challenges in Family Caregiving, Sutherland House, 2022.
• Gabriel, Maryanna (class of 2022) Walking the Camino: On Earth As It Is, Pottersfield Press, 2023.  
• Grant, Mary Jane (class of 2016) A Cure for Heartache: Life’s Simple Pleasures, One Moment at a Time, Coronet, UK, May 2019.
• Griffiths, Stephanie (class of 2016) Sit Still and Prosper: How a Former Money Manager Discovered the Path to Investing with Greater Clarity, Calmness, and Confidence, Bird in the Sky Press, 2018.
• Harper, Sue (class of 2016) Winter in the City of Light: A Search for Self in Retirement, Amazon 2019. Read my review here.

• Hartmann, Suzanne (class of 2021) The Nail That Sticks Out: Growing up Japanese Canadian in Postwar Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2024.
• Heffernan, Virginia (class of 2021) The Multi-Billion Dollar Ring of Fire: Prospectors and Politics in the Peatlands, ECW Press, 2023.
• Kelloway, Kevin (class of 2019) The Performance Equation, University of Toronto/Rotman Press TBD.
• Johnson, Kirk (class of 2019) Some Kind of Hero: Love, Death, and Trauma in a Nova Scotia Town, Random House of Canada, 2021.
• Lamont, Gwen (class of 2019) The View from Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed, The Ginger Press, 2024.
• Lampert, Nellwyn (class of 2017) Every Boy I Ever Kissed: A Memoir, Dundurn Press, 2019. Read my review here.
• LeBlanc, Tyler (class of 2018) Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion, Goose Lane Editions, 2020.

• Lowe, Lezlie (class of 2016) Nowhere to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs, Coach House Books, 2018. Read my review here.
• MacDuff, James (class of 2024) and Mirriam Mweemba, The Illogical Adventure: A Memoir of Love and Fate, Pottersfield Press, 2025.
• MacLeod, Susan (class of 2018) Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir about Nursing Home Care, Conundrum Press, 2021.
• McDiarmid, Jessica (class of 2016) Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.
• McKeon, Lauren (class of 2016) F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism, Goose Lane Editions, 2017. Read my review here.
• Marion, Leslie (class of 2018) Easy Money: A Bankspeak Primer for Small Business, 4th Floor Press, 2020.

• Moncrieff, Helena (class of 2016) The Fruitful City: Building Communities Around Nature’s Bounty,  ECW Press, 2018.
• Moore, Chris (class of 2024) Guilt: A Natural and Personal History, Simon & Schuster, 2026.
• Murray, Jason (class of 2016) A Distorted Revolution: How Eric’s Trip Changed Music, Moncton and Me, Nimbus Publishing, 2017.
• O’Reilly-Conlin, Jesse (class of 2019) Visiting Africa: A Memoir, Demeter Press, 2021.
• Pacific, Robin (class of 2021) Skater Girl: An Archaeology of the Self, Guernica Editions, 2024.
• Pate, David (class of 2023) The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth About National Anthems, Dundurn Press, 2024.
• Pellerin, Renée (class of 2016) Conspiracy of Hope: The Truth about Breast Cancer Screening, Goose Lane Editions, 2018.
• Pratt, Laura (class of 2020) Heartbroken: Field Notes on a Constant Condition, Penguin Random House Canada, 2023. Read my review here.
• Powley, Jen (class of 2015) Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis, Fernwood Publishing, 2017. Read my review here.
• Purdham, Adelle (class of 2022) I Don’t Do Disabilities and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself, Dundurn Press, 2024.
• Reeves, Andrew (class of 2016) Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis, ECW Press, 2019.

• Reichert, Bonny (class of 2022) How to Share an Egg, A True Story of Hunger, Love and Plenty, Penguin Random House, 2025. Read my review here.
• Reid, Dylan, ed. (class of 2021) with Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc, Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything, Coach House Books, 2025.
• Roberts, Jo-Ann, Storm The Ballot Box: An Insider’s Guide to A Voting Revolution, Nimbus Publishing, 2025.
• Schreurs, Jason (class of 2022) Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health, Mansfield Press, 2023.
• Shaw, RC (class of 2017) Louisburg or Bust: A Surfer’s Wild Ride Down Nova Scotia’s Drowned Coast, Pottersfield Press, 2018.
• Smith, Christian (class of 2017) The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son’s Exploration of His Mother’s Gift, Penguin Random House, 2020.
• Stewart, Suzanne (class of 2016) The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons, Pottersfield Press, 2018.
• Stiller, Karen (class of 2018) The Minister’s Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Forgiveness, Loneliness, and More, Tynedale House, 2019. Read my review here.
• Sullivan, William (class of 2017) The City and the Smelter: How Against All Odds Did It Happen? The Story of Trail BC, First Choice Books, 2023.
• Tattrie, Jon (class of 2020) Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey From Syria to Canada, Goose Lane Editions, 2020.
• Thompson, Kelly S. (mentor) Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go, McLelland & Stewart, 2023. Read my review here.
• Topperman, Caroline (class of 2026), Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family’s Search Across History for Belonging (HCI Books, 2024).

• Turnbull, Gillian (class of 2017) Sonic Booms: Making Music in an Oil Town, Eternal Cavalier Press, 2019.
• Verma, Jennifer Thornhill (class of 2019) Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboy, Nimbus Publishing, 2019.
• Williams, Aaron (class of 2017) Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir, Harbour Publishing, 2017.
• Wilson, Jennifer (class of ????) The Heart of Homestay: Creating Meaningful Connections When Hosting International Students, Page Two Books, 2025.
• Woolsey, Gina (class of 2015) Fifteen Thousand Pieces: A Medical Examiner’s Journey Through Disaster, Guernica Editions, 2023.