Lew-Ellyn Hughes dreams of leaving city life and finding a place where she can see her beloved Maine wilderness from her window each...

After thirty years, fourteen books, and countless thrills, award-winning author Gerry Boyle writes the exciting and bittersweet final...

Susan “Sue” Daignault was practically born with a rod and reel in her hand. Nearly from her birth, she and her family spent entire...

Glorious Penobscot Bay, on the coast of Maine, with its quaint mainland towns, bustling tourist centers, and island fishing villages,...

In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..

by John N. Cole (1980) Three hundred and seventy-three Decembers have been swallowed by time since the first English Christmas in Maine....

The following story is featured in All Is Calm: A Maine Christmas Reader. All Is Calm, edited by Islandport's own Shannon Butler, is an...

By Dean L. Lunt In the 1970s, Frenchboro remained a relatively poor island fishing village eight miles at sea that, given the era's...

by Shannon Butler This essay by Shannon Butler serves as the introduction to her book, All Is Calm, a look at the lives of Mainers during...

Cynthia Thayer found her entire world cut adrift from its familiar moorings. Her husband Bill had been in an accident while driving their...

Susan “Sue” Daignault was practically born with a rod and reel in her hand. Nearly from her birth, she and her family spent entire...

Caught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change, both...

When Lorraine, a recent college graduate, starts work at a residential treatment center for troubled teens, she quickly finds herself...

Just Up The Road: A Year Discovering People, Places, and What Comes Next in the Pine Tree State follows Chelsea Diehl's year-long journey...

From the pine-encroached rivers of Maine’s Aroostook County, to the turquoise flats of Florida Bay, author Ryan Brod draws unexpected...

Scot Lehigh's debut novel, Just East of Nowhere, is a gritty, coming-of-age novel set in a small coastal town in Maine. It explores the...

Birds are fascinating creatures and their place in our ecosystems is one of undisputed importance. Ravens in particular, are quite the...

The impact of a parental figure leaves a resounding echo within our hearts––especially during our most formative years. In Scot Lehigh's...

Here at Islandport we are thrilled to help celebrate Pride Month and highlight one of our authors! Marpheen Chann, a second-generation...

From The Walk Down Main Street by Ruth Moore Everyone had seen last night’s game, either on the TV or at the capital, driving a hundred...