It’s time for our annual Festival, and we are coming with an exciting list of writers and hosts. This summer we will be featuring some of your favourite writers. Jane Urquhart returns to the festival having recently been short-listed for her terrific novel, In Winter I get Up at Night. Award-winning writer and Canada Reads …
ANGELA ANTLE is a writer, artist, and producer based in St. John’s. Her work has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Atlantic Journalism Awards, The New York Festivals, Gabriels, and Gracie Allen Awards as well as Berlinale, Dublin, Nickel, and Wexford Film Festivals. She is currently completing an interdisciplinary PhD in energy …
Angela Antle Ted Blades Michael Crummey Patrick DeWitt Marjorie Doyle Danine Farquharson Jamie Fitzpatrick Rosalind Gill Jennifer Guy Mike Heffernan Kate Hilton Holly Hogan Andy Jones Rosemary Lawton Lisa Moore William Ping Michelle Porter Elizabeth Renzetti Aritha Van Herk Anuja Varghese Zoe Whittall Stay tuned for ticket sales.
Holly Hogan is the winner of the 2023 BMO Winterset Award for her book, Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist. The award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing, was presented today at a ceremony at Government House in St. John’s.
See below for this years packed festival line up Friday, August 11, 2023 12:30pm Award-winning author-journalist-lecturer-broadcaster-Newfoundlander Gwynne Dyer will talk to us about his latest book on Ukraine and whatever else is on his capacious mind. 3:00pm Noreen Golfman (Memorial University) in conversation with Wayne Johnston, author of The Mystery of Right and Wrong and …
See below for the full press release from Arts NL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shelly Kawaja wins the 2022 BMO Winterset Award March 30, 2023 (St. John’s, NL) – Shelly Kawaja is the winner of the 2022 BMO Winterset Award for her novel, The Raw Light of Morning. The award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing, was …
Three finalists have been named for the 2022 BMO Winterset Award. The annual award celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing. The winner will be announced on March 30. The finalists are:
Friday August 12 3pm — Homeland Voices Dr. Sonja Boon, Memorial University Professor of Gender Studies, St. John’s author of What the Ocean Remembers: Searching for and Belonging to Home, a memoir exploring her complicated heritage. Chief Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill, authors of My Indian, a vivid work of historical fiction that captures the …
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