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Published on September 12, 2013

SYDNEY Six books published by Cape Breton University Press will share the various stages at The Word on the Street festival which takes place September 22 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., on the Halifax waterfront.

Steve Wadden - Cape Breton Post

Cape Breton University offers programs at a campus in Cairo that is currently closed due to turmoil and violence in the streets of the Egyptian city.

New to the regions biggest book and magazine festival is the Open Book tent to be located immediately behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

That tent will highlight literature from the regions predominant cultures: aboriginal, Acadian, African-Canadian, Celtic and English, as well as other immigrant experiences.

CBU Press authors making presentations on the Open Book stage are Cassie Deveaux Cohoon ("Jeanne Dugas of Acadia" 11 a.m.), Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis ("The Language of This Land, Mikmaki" 1 p.m.) and Michael Newton (editor of "Celts in the Americas" 3 p.m.).

The Remarkable Reads tent aboard HMCS Sackville will feature a cooks and books panel featuring Anne Marie Lane Jonah (co-author of "French Taste in Atlantic Canada" 11:30 a.m.), while the Vibrant Voices tent, focusing on books for young adult readers, will include Hugh R. MacDonald ("Trapper Boy" 1 p.m.).

Dynamic Dialogues will include a railways panel discussion with Herb MacDonald ("Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History" 4 p.m.). That book is shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson prize for non-fiction, the winner of which will be announced Saturday evening at a Writers Federation of Nova Scotia ceremony on September 21.

Mike Hunter, editor-in-chief at Cape Breton University Press, says he is delighted about the selection of authors and their books for Word on the Street.

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Cape Breton authors featured at Word on the Street