Amanda Peters is a Canadian writer from

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, whose debut novel ''The Berry Pickers'' was the winner of the 2024

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,Hillel Italie
"Roxanna Asgarian's 'We Were Once a Family' and Amanda Peters' 'The Berry Pickers' win library medals"
''Airdrie City View'', January 20, 2024. 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award,Amanda Peters Author
"Awards and Recognitions"
May 31, 2024 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, and 2024 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.Cassandra Drudi
"Amanda Peters, Karen Pinchin among 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards winners"
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'', June 5, 2024.

Biography

Of mixed European and

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heritage, Peters was born and raised in the

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region of Nova Scotia as a member of the Glooscap First Nation.Jason Molloy
"Falmouth, N.S., resident Amanda Peters ready to release debut novel, The Berry Pickers"
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'', April 4, 2023. She was nominated for an Indigenous Voices Award in the Unpublished English Prose category in 2019 for her short story "Pejipug (Winter Arrives)", and won in the same category in 2021 for "Waiting for the Long Night Moon".

Works

''The Berry Pickers'' centres on a young Mi'kmaw girl who goes missing in Maine, depicting the event's lifelong effects on both her birth family and the girl herself, who grows up as the adopted child of a white family with no knowledge of her origins. The novel was published in early 2023 by

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. In addition to its Carnegie Award win, the book was shortlisted for the 2023

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,Cassandra Drudi
"Three debut novels among finalists for 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize"
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'', September 27, 2023. the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award,Cassandra Drudi
"2024 Amazon First Novel Award shortlist revealed"
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'', May 9, 2024. the 2024

Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction.Cassandra Drudi
"Finalists for Nova Scotia Book Awards and Atlantic Book Awards announced"
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'', April 15, 2024. Her debut short story collection, ''Waiting for the Long Night Moon'', was published on August 13, 2024.Elizabeth Mitchell
"‘The Berry Pickers’ Examines Hope’s Joy and Pain After a Little Girl’s Disappearance"
'' Everything Zoomer'', March 31, 2023.

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

References

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