About
Nina Newington is a forest protector, an award winning author and a gardener. British by birth, she lived in Hong Kong, Germany, Israel, England, Nigeria and the US before immigrating to Canada. She and her wife live in a ramshackle farmhouse on the North Mountain of Nova Scotia on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people. Her second novel, Cardinal Divide, was published in 2020 by Guernica Editions.
Blog
‘Nova Scotia hiding glyphosate spraying details
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-hiding-glyphosate-spraying-details-roundup-environment-activist?itm_source=nova-scotia Excerpt from Francis Campbell’s article: ‘“Health Canada approves what pesticides are safe for use,” Porter said. “If someone has concerns about the pesticides they approve for use across the country, they need to contact Health Canada. Our role is to make sure the companies that are spraying comply with strict terms and conditions when …
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Shady Accounting and Vanishing Forests article Winter 2024
Vanishing Forests The NS Government claims it is close to having fully implemented the Lahey Report’s recommendations. In reality, many have been ignored. This article examines the new ‘ecological’ approach to harvesting on most Crown land, using examples of harvest planned for the proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area
CBC’s Information Morning segment on Goldsmith from Lichen Camp, June 12, 2025
Check out this segment! https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-27-information-morning-ns/clip/16152006-volunteer-group-urging-province-conserve-land-protected-species
Publications
Guernica Editions, Fall 2020
446 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781771834421
ISBN10: 1771834420
English
$20.00 Canada, $17.95 US, £11.95 UK
A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It’s complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn’t simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to explore the world. Characters who pass as male, as white, as straight, straddle the cardinal divides. And then, sometimes, passing is becoming.
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My first novel:
Through stunning, magnetic, precise prose, Newington paints the portrait of a world both gorgeous and terrifying; we are taken into the consciousness of the daughter of a British diplomat during the Nigerian Civil War, a child trying to puzzle through the mysteries of family, culture, gender, and place. There are no conclusions here; the world reveals itself in its bafflement, its losses and betrayals, counterbalanced by moments of beauty that assuage, delight, and fascinate. This is a beautiful book! — Carol Potter, poet, Antioch University
Where Bones Dance TLS review 2007