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An ever-evolving list of recent King’s MFA students and graduates with book contracts:

  • Amy Fish (2023) One in Six Million, Goose Lane Editions, Spring 2025.
  • Adelle Purdham (2022) I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself, Dundurn Press, 2024.
  • Tamara Baluja (2024) Nav Bhatia: The Heart of a Superfan, Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.
  • Gwen Lamont (2019) The View From Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed, Ginger Press,  2024.
  • Alec Bruce (2022) The Cooperators: The People Behind the Rebirth of a Nova Scotia Movement, Pottersfield, 2024./li>
  • David Pate (2023) Changing Our Tunes: Why National Anthems Fall Flat, Dundurn Press, 2024.
  • Chris Moore (2024) Guilt: A Natural and Personal History, Harper Collins Canada and BenBella in the United States, 2025.
  • Suzanne Hartman (2021) The Nail That Sticks Out: Growing up Japanese Canadian in Postwar Toronto, Dundurn, TBA
  • Bonny Reichert (2022) How to Share an Egg: A true story of Hunger, Love and Plenty, Appetite/Penguin Random House in Canada, and Ballantine/Random House in the US, 2024.
  • William Sullivan (2017) The City and the Smelter: How Against All Odds Did It Happen, First Choice Books, 2023.
  • Esmeralda Cabral (2019) How to Clean a Fish: and other adventures in Portugal, University of Alberta Press, 2023.
  • Gina Woolsey (2015) Fifteen Thousand Pieces: a Medical Examiner’s journey through disaster, Guernica Edition, 2023.
  • Jason Schreurs (2022) Scream Therapy: A punk journey through mental health, Flex Your Head Press, 2023.
  • Niko Bell (2023) Risk, Freedom, and the Future of Safe Sex,  ECW. TBA
  • Sheima Benembarek (2020), Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America. Penguin Random House Canada, 2023.
  • Lesley Buxton (2016) One Strong Girl. Pottersfield, 2018.
  • Marilyn Carr (2020) Nowhere Like This Place, Iguana Books, 2020.
  • Gregor Craigie (2019) On Borrowed Time: Shaking Complacency in North America’s Seismic Zones, Goose Lane Editions, 2021.
  • Pauline Dakin (2015). Run, Hide, Repeat. Penguin, 2017.

  • Moira Dann (2016). Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures. Touchstone Editions, 2021.
  • Deborah Dundas (2023) On Class. Biblioasis, 2022.
  • Catherine Fogarty (2018) Murder on the Inside. Biblioasis, 2021.
  • Marsha Faubert (2018) Wanda’s War. Goose Lane, 2023.
  • Stacey May Fowles (2015) The Girl in the Woods, M&S, 2018.
  • Joan Francuz (Class of 2016) Press Enter to Continue: Scribes from Babylon to Silicon. 2018.
  • Kim Fraser (2021) The Accidental Caregiver: Challenges and Triumphs of Intimate Family Caregivers, Sutherland House, (2022).
  • Maryanna Gabriel (2022) On Earth As It Is: Walking The Camino, Pottersfield, TBA.  
  • MJ Grant (2016) A Cure for Heartache, Coronet, UK, May 2019.

  • Sue Harper (2016) Winter in the City of Light: A Search for Self in Retirement, Amazon 2019.
  • Kirk Johnson (2019) Some Kind of Hero, Penguin, 2021.
  • Stephanie Griffiths (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.
  • Virginia Heffernan (2021) The Multi-Billion Dollar Ring of Fire: Prospectors and Politics in the Peatlands. ECW Press, 2023.
  • Tyler LeBlanc (2018) Acadian Driftwood, Goose Lane.
  • Kevin Kelloway (2019) The Performance Equation, University of Toronto/Rotman Press.
  • Nellwyn Lampert (2017) Every Boy I Ever Kissed, Dundurn Press. Fall 2019.
  • Lezlie Lowe (2016) Nowhere to Go. Coach House, 2018.

  • Susan MacLeod (2018): Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir about Nursing Home Care, Conundrum Press, October 2021.
  • Leslie Marion (2018) Easy Money: A Bankspeak Primer for Small Business, 4th Floor Press, 2020.
  • Lauren McKeon (2016). F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism. Goose Lane, 2017.
  • Jessica McDiarmid (2016). Highway of Tears: The Missing, The Murdered, The Mystery. Doubleday.
  • Helena Moncrieff (2016). The Fruitful City: Building Communities Around Nature’s Bounty. ECW Press.
  • Jason Murray (2016). A Distorted Revolution: How Eric’s Trip Changed Music, Moncton and Me. Nimbus, 2017.
  • Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin (2019) Visiting Africa: A Memoir. Demeter Press, 2021.
  • Robin Pacific (2021) Skater Girl. Guernica Editions, 2024.
  • Renée Pellerin (2016) Conspiracy of Hope. Goose Lane, 2018.
  • Laura Pratt (2020) Heartbroken: Field Notes on a Constant Condition. Random House Canada, 2023.
  • Jen Powley (2015). Just Jen. Roseway Books, 2017.
  • Andrew Reeves (2016) Overrun. ECW Press, 2019.
  • Bonny Reichert (2022) How to Share an Egg, A True Story of Hunger, Love and Plenty, Appetite, Penguin Random House (Canada), Ballantine (Penguin Random House)  US., TBA.
  • Jason Schreurs (2022) Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health. Mansfield Press, 2023.
  • RC Shaw (2017) Louisbourg or Bust. Pottersfield Press, 2018.

  • Christian Smith (2017). The Scientist and the Psychic, Random House, 2021
  • Suzanne Stewart (2016). The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons. Pottersfield, 2018.
  • Karen Stiller (2018) The Minister’s Wife. Tynedale House, 2019.
  • Jon Tattrie (2020) Peace by Chocolate. Goose Lane, 2020.
  • Gillian Turnbull (2017) Sonic Booms: Making Music in an Oil Town, Eternal Cavalier Press, 2019.
  • Jennifer Thornhill Verma (2019) Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboy, Nimbus, Fall 2019.
  • Aaron Williams (2017) Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir. Harbour Publishing, 2017.