Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters: Introductory English, Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures
Position: Associate Professor
Office: Beveridge Arts Centre 434
Phone: 902-585-1281
Email: amanda.peters@acadiau.ca
Research Interests: creative writing and Indigenous literature
Selected Honours:
2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose for the short story, “Waiting for the Long Night Moon”
2021 Writers Trust of Canada Rising Star Award
2023 Publishers Weekly Writers to Watch Fall 2023
Publications:
My publications include the novel The Berry Pickers as well as literary journal publications including, Pejipug in the Antigonish Review, Ashes in Grain Magazine, Reclamation in the Dalhousie Review and Tasting Notes in filling Station magazine. My work also appears in Carving Space, an anthology of winners from the first five years of the Indigenous Voices Awards.
Awards for The Berry Pickers:
2024 Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2024 Finalist for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction) for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2024 Finalist for the Amazon First Book Award (Canada)for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2024 Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Book
2024 Finalist for the Thomas Raddall Award for Fiction \ for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2024 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (US) for the novel The Berry Pickers
2023 Finalist for the Amazon.com Book of the Year (US) for the novel The Berry Pickers
2023 Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year (US) – Finalist for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2023 Finalist for the Writers Trust of Canada, Atwood Gibson Award for Fiction for the novel, The Berry Pickers
2023 Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize (US) for the novel The Berry Pickers.
The Berry Pickers is currently being translated into 15 different language around the world.