Useful Links

Internal Links

• Faculty of Arts
• Patrick Power Library
• The Writing Centre

Local Events, Organizations, Publications & Resources

• Halifax Public Libraries
• Literacy Nova Scotia
• Shakespeare by the Sea
• The Word on the Street - Halifax's International Book and Magazine Festival
• Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia
• The Antigonish Review - "Canada's Eclectic Review"
• The Fiddlehead - "Canada's longest living literary journal." 

National, International & On the Web

• ACCUTE - Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
• MLA - The Modern Language Association
• Project Gutenberg
• Words at Large

Literary Awards

• Canada Council for the Arts
• The Giller Prize
• The Griffin Poetry Prize
• The Man Booker Prize
• Part-time Teaching Positions

Why a major in English?!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2016/10/03/14-jobs-for-english-majors-that-pay-at-least-60000/#1a2cd9f64f1d  

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/11/27/market-english-major-lean-love-books-opinion 

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-ask-not-what-can-be-done-with-a-humanities-degree/ 

People who read a lot of fiction tend to have better cognitive skills, study finds (psypost.org)