Andre Fenton is an award-winning African Nova Scotian writer, performer, and arts
educator who has represented Halifax at seven national spoken word festivals across Canada. He founded The Ink Collective in 2025, a program to help Black writers find their path in the publishing industry. He is the 2023 recipient of the Portia
White Protege Award and a 2022 recipient of an Emerging Artist Recognition Award
from Creative NS Awards. Andre is the author of three young adult fiction novels,
Worthy of Love. ANNAKA, which was the 2022 recipient of The Community & Place
Award from Digitally Lit, and The Summer Between Us, which won Gold in The Coast’s 2022 Best Of Awards. Andre has facilitated writing and performance workshops in over 100 classrooms across Nova Scotia. He is currently screenwriting the film adaptation of his novel, ANNAKA, which is being produced by Fine Devils Films. Andre is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
