Amanda Peters in conversation with Diana Davidson
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025
7:00pm to 9:00pm
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STARFest presents Amanda Peters as she shares her powerful new collection Waiting for the Long Night Moon, following the success of her bestselling debut The Berry Pickers. Her work offers a deeply moving perspective on Indigenous identity and resilience.
Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her bestselling debut novel, The Berry Pickers, won the Barnes and Nobel Discover Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Dartmouth Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Novel Award. Amanda Peters lives and writes in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.
Diana Davidson lives and writes in Edmonton in Treaty 6 Territory and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. Her novel Pilgrimage was a finalist for the 2014 Alberta Readers' Choice Award. Her essay "Ahead of the Ice" won a Writers Guild of Alberta prize and was published in Alberta Views. Her most recent publication is a story called "Waxwings and War Brides" and is based on her Dutch grandmother coming to Alberta after WWII. "Waxwings and War Brides" appeared in the spring 2025 volume of Consequence Forum, a war writing journal.
St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)
5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9
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