Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Winners Announced in The Ninth Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction

The winners of the Ninth Annual Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction are Betty McEachern for Code Blue Miracle: One Nova Scotian's Brush with Death and a Journey to the Other Side, and Education of a Rabbit Thief  by Trenton Pomeroy.

 

Betty McEachern writes, “In late 2022, a miracle happened when doctors saved me, gifting me a second chance to walk through my life with more humility and openness.” Code Blue Miracle is her story. Betty was born in Scarborough, Ontario and now lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with her husband, child, and three cats. She works in libraries, allowing her to read widely.

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"Education of a Rabbit Thief" is the story of Clayton Montague, growing up poor in 1960s rural New Brunswick, learning to survive his loving, crazy, addicted family and a child protection agency that only makes things worse. Trenton Pomeroy grew up in rural Charlotte County, New Brunswick and now lives in Rothesay NB. He is a retiree from the software industry and his work has been published in Grain, East of the Web and several anthologies.  

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Since its origins, the Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction has published sixteen previous winners, many of them first time authors, from across Canada.

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Both books will be published by Pottersfield Press in the coming year.