Thursday, 9 of September of 2010

Winners of the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts & Letters Awards Announced This Week!

SR. Short Fiction Contest Winners (88 entries /Judges: Michael Crummey and Shoshanna Wingate / Prizes 1000$ each)
Ian Foster for “A Large Crowd Gathers for the Deceased Jeff Elliot’s Encore Performance”
Karen Rowe for “Deepest Harbour”
Catherine Hogan Safer “Joe’s Story”
Leslie Vryenhoek for “Tick”
Aimee Wall for “Thaw”

Senior Poetry Contest Winners (111 entries /Judges: George Murray & Stephen Rowe/ Prizes 1000$ each)

Jacob Bachinger for “Slow Life”
Marlene Creates for “The Very First Thing”
Randy Drover for “Stew”
Grant Loveys for “Flame Bay”
Kristopher Pittman for “Innisfree”
Susan Rendell for “Bridegroom After the Wedding”

Winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award (Judged by Michelle Butler-Hallett, prize of 1,500$)

Melanie Oates for her novel, Hanging from the Ceiling.

* Past winners of the percy Janes First novel award include: Joel Thomas Hynes’ Down to the Dirt, Sara Tilley’s Skin Room, and Jeff Rose-Martland’s Game Misconduct.

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