Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Snickerdoodle Photography
Nicola Davison
BIO
Biography

Nicola Davison is a writer and photographer. Her first book, In the Wake (Vagrant Press) won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award. Her second novel, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) won the 2023 Ann Connor Brimer Book Award for YA fiction and was nominated for a White Pine Award at The Forest of Reading. Also a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, she completed the Alistair Macleod Mentorship Program in 2016; polishing off the umpteenth draft of her first novel with mentor, Carol Bruneau. Born in Nova Scotia, she has lived in too many places and done just enough world travelling to appreciate home. She lives in Dartmouth with her boat-crazy family and delightfully stubborn Basset Hound. See what Nicola is up to online at https://www.nicoladavison.ca

ADDRESS
City: Dartmouth, Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Decoding Dot Grey
Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Year
2022
Title
In the Wake
Publisher
Vagrant Press
Year
2018
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction)
Publication
In the Wake
Year
2019
Name
The Miramichi Reader's First Book Award
Publication
In the Wake
Year
2019
Name
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Young Adult Fiction
Publication
Decoding Dot Grey
Year
2023
LINKS
Links
In the Wake
Decoding Dot Grey
Programs & Interests
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