Free Admission/Open to the public. No ticket required.
When: Sunday, August 9, 10:00 am
In an effervescent session that has become one of our board’s personal favourites, we decant some sparkling new literary gems created in this year’s Winterset Festival creative writing workshop, designed and run by the legendary Lisa Moore. Host Jennifer Guy will moderate.
LISA MOORE has written three collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness, Open, and Something for Everyone, and four novels, Alligator, February, Caught and This Is How We Love along with Flannery, a young adult novel. Lisa wrote a stage play based on her novel February and is a co-librettist with composer Laura Kaminsky for the opera based on February. With Jack Whalen, Lisa co-wrote the creative nonfiction book Invisible Prisons, which was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize in 2024 and won both the BMO Winterset Award for Nonfiction and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Prize for Non-Fiction. Lisa is currently writing for stage and screen and finishing a young adult novel, The Spellbound. Lisa studied conceptual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is a Full Professor teaching Creative Writing at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
JENNIFER GUY has been involved with Winterset in Summer for over two decades. She was a founding board member from the festival’s inception in 2001 through to 2018. She was also part of the small team of women who worked with Richard Gwyn in Toronto in 2000 to raise funds for the Winterset Awards, now the BMO Winterset Awards. She is thrilled to see the growth and success of the award and the festival as a forum to celebrate and nurture literary arts in Newfoundland and Labrador, and she is delighted to host the workshop writers’ panel for the third time running.
