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- ↑ "Halifax author Kris Bertin wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Penticton Herald, June 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Kris Bertin wins ReLit Award for short story collection Bad Things Happen". CBC Books, July 16, 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Author Kris Bertin seeks connections". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , October 7, 2012.
- ↑ "Bad Things Happen, by Kris Bertin". Quill & Quire , March 2016.
- ↑ "Review: Bertin and Forbes’s The Case of the Missing Men is densely detailed". The Globe and Mail , February 22, 2018.
- ↑ "38 books shortlisted for 2020 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 27, 2021.
