Jennifer Guy Hosts Lisa Moore’s Writing Workshop 2025

Lisa Moore is a writer of the short story collections Degrees of Nakedness, Open, and Something for Everyone. She has written the novels Alligator, February, Caught, This Is How We Love and the young adult novel Flannery.  She is the co-author with Jack Whalen of the creative non-fiction book Invisible Prisons. Her novels and story collections have each been translated into at least one, or most of these languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, and Turkish. And she is the co-librettist, with Laura Kaminsky, of the opera February adapted from her novel by the same name, and has recently written five opera arias for a film adaptation based on the true story of Marguerite de la Roque. She has selected, edited and introduced five anthologies of short stories including Racket, (Breakwater, St. John’s 2015), Us, Now (Breakwater, St. John’s 2021), Hard Ticket ( Breakwater, St. John’s, 2022), Best Canadian Stories (Biblioasis, 2024) and she is the co-editor with Sheena Wilson of the collection We Were In It: very short stories about energy transition (Memorial Press 2025). Lisa teaches Creative Writing at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Jennifer Guy was part of a small team of Toronto based women organized by Richard Gwyn to raise funds for the Winterset Award (now the BMO Winterset Award) a quarter of a century ago. She then joined the team which founded the Winterset in Summer Literary Festival. She served as Board member and remains an engaged supporter of the festival. She is thrilled to see the growth and continued success of all events associated with Winterset.