Free Admission/All readers welcome. No ticket required.
When: Thursday, August 6, 7:00 pm
Where: Society of United Fisherman (SUF) Hall, Church Street, Eastport, NL
Returning for its second year, this event welcomes book clubs and all other interested readers to talk with beloved book club guest Susie Taylor who will read from Vigil, her raw and brilliant short story collection about life in today’s Newfoundland, which earned Susie the 2024 BMO Winterset Fiction Award. Admission is free, and we’re happy to provide appetizers and a drink. Added bonus: our host is Angela Antle, former journalist and winner of the 2025 BMO Winterset Award – so one winner hosts another!
SUSIE TAYLOR is a queer writer who lives in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. An art school grad and former retail worker, the year she turned 40, she quit smoking and started writing. Taylor is the author of two books, Vigil and Even Weirder Than Before (Breakwater Books). Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada including Geist, PRISM International, The Fiddlehead, and Room Magazine. In 2015, she was the winner of the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Her book Vigil was the winner of the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for Fiction and the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction. It was a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Taylor is the associate fiction editor at Riddle Fence Magazine.
ANGELA ANTLE is a writer, artist, and documentary maker based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and is the winner of the 2025 BMO Winterset Award. Antle’s writing has appeared in Riddle Fence, Newfoundland Quarterly, and CBC.ca. She wrote and directed Gander’s Ripple Effect: How a Small Town’s Kindness Opened on Broadway, and wrote the feature-length Irish-Norwegian-Canadian documentary Atlantic: What Lies Beneath. As a journalist, Angela has rowed a dory through the Narrows, covered the subculture of Florida’s Spring Break, taken bumpy komatik rides on the coast of Labrador, hitchhiked from France to Newfoundland on a fishing boat, interviewed a Prime Minister on Broadway, and recorded Ron Hynes singing “Sonny’s Dream” in Ireland. She is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University, a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures Energy School, and was the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer in Residence at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
