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Thomas Head Raddall Award
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces."Adams Richards wins $20,000 Thomas Head Raddall prize" '''', October 13, 2012. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The Award is currently worth $25,000. Winners *1991 -[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event celebrating Atlantic Canadian writing and book illustration. Free events take place across the four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). The flagship event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented. Awards *Thomas Head Raddall Award - fiction *J. M. Abraham Poetry Award - poetry *Ann Connor Brimer Award The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature is a $2,000 annual award given to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to literature for young people. Starting in 2016, the prize altern ... - children's literature *Alistair MacLeod Prize - short fiction *Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing *Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award *Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing * Evelyn Richardson Award for Non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador. Early life and education Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland; he grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he won the university's Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest in 1986 and received a B.A. in English in 1987. He completed a M.A. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1988, later leaving the Ph.D. program to pursue his writing career. Career In 1994, he became the first winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for young unpublished writers. His first volume of poetry, ''Arguments with Gravity'' (1996), won the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. ''Hard Light'' (1998), his second collection, was nominated for the Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quill & Quire
''Quill & Quire'' is a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry. The magazine was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000. ''Quill & Quire'' reviews books and magazines and provides a forum for discussion of trends in the publishing industry. The publication is considered a significant source of short reviews for new Canadian books. History Started in 1935 by Wallace Seccombe's Current Publications, ''Quill & Quires original editorial focus was on office supplies and stationery, with books taking on increasing importance only as Canada's fledgling indigenous book publishing industry began to grow and flourish. In 1971, Michael de Pencier purchased the magazine from Southam (who had bought it from Seccombe and owned it for just six months). ''Quill & Quire'' remained with de Pencier as part of the Key Publishers/Key Media stable for 30 years, until its sale in 2003 (as part of a larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kowalski
William John Kowalski III (born August 3, 1970 in Parma, Ohio) is an American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of ''Eddie's Bastard'' (1999), ''Somewhere South of Here'' (2001),Judd, ElizabethReview ''The New York Times'', 29 April 2001; accessed 16 July 2010. ''The Adventures of Flash Jackson'' (2003), and ''The Good Neighbor'' (2004). Youth Kowalski is the eldest child of Dr. William John Kowalski, Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. (born 1942) and Kathleen Emily Siepel of Angola, N.Y. (b. 1942). In 1974, the family moved to Erie, Pennsylvania. He attended Erie Day School from 1976 to 1984, Cathedral Preparatory School for Boys from 1984 to 1985, and McDowell High School from 1985 to 1988, where he played bass in the rock group Gideon Winter, which was named after a major character in the novel ''Floating Dragon'' by Peter Straub. He also acted in numerous high school and community theater productions. Literary education Kowalski has said that he realized he wanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Telegram
''The Telegram'' is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays (as ''The Weekend Telegram'') in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. History ''The Evening Telegram'' was first published on April 3, 1879 by William James Herder. It adopted its current name in 1998, although it was also briefly published under this name in 1881. Herder and his descendants owned and published ''The Evening Telegram'' until it was sold to Thomson Newspapers (now Thomson Corporation) in 1970, and continued as publishers until the departure of Stephen R. Herder (William's Grandson) in 1991. William Herder began as a printer for the St. John's weekly ''The Courier''. When it folded in 1878, Herder purchased one of the presses and began his own newspaper. ''The Telegram'' was notable as the first daily (excluding Sundays) in Newfoundland. It is also the only 19th century Newfoundland newspaper to survive into the 20th (and now 21st) century. Over the course of its history, the paper h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whirl Away
''Whirl Away'' is a book written by award winning Canadian writer Russell Wangersky, first published in March 2012, by Thomas Allen Publishers. In the book, the author compiles a collection of short stories that examine "what happens when people's personal coping skills go awry."Goodreads''Whirl Away'' Book review, Retrieved 11/22/2012 Awards and honours ''Whirl Away'' received shortlist honours for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize,. ''Maclean's'', October 4, 2012. Retrieved 11/22/2012. and won the 2013 Thomas Head Raddall Award."Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’" '' The Telegram
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Russell Wangersky
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and award-winning writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University. He has been page editor of ''The Telegram'' in St. John's, as well as a columnist and magazine writer. He has been nominated for the National Newspaper Award four times, and has won once, as well as several Canadian awards for creative non-fiction writing. He is also a four-time National Magazine Award finalist. He published his debut short story collection, ''The Hour of Bad Decisions'', in 2006. The collection was named to the initial longlist for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was also a finalist for the Winterset Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize - Canada and the Caribbean, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His book ''Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself'', a non-fiction memoir of his 20 years as a volunteer firefighte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel (Winter Novel)
''Annabel'' is a 2010 novel by Canada-based author Kathleen Winter. Plot A baby is born in 1968, in far-from-everywhere Croydon Harbour, Labrador, Canada. He is intersex – a word unfamiliar to the midwife present at his birth, and to his stoic father and his fanciful mother – with both penis and vagina. His is a masculine world of men who trap for a living, and a father who decided to name him "Wayne" and raise him as male – but his shadow self, Annabel, the name his mother and her best friend Thomasina whisper when they are alone, will live within him for two decades. Wayne heads into the bush with his father, but at home he dreams of synchronized swimming and begs for a sequined bathing suit. He is she, and they are a fluid, pastel contradiction in a rigid, black and white world. Puberty sets in and there is a medical emergency – Wayne's abdomen fills with menstrual blood. Lost in his superficial world of being a girl, he begins a friendship with classmate Wally. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist. cbc.ca, 27 March 2008. Life and career Born in , near Newcastle in the north of England and raised in , Winter began her career as a script writer for ''''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandi Mitchell , ''Under This Unbroken Sky''
*2008: Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts, Canada Council
Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University. Her newest novel, ''The Waiting Hours'', is slated for publication in 2019. Awards and honors *2012: Kobzar Literary Award, ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' *2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (first novel, Canada and the Caribbean), ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' *2010: Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. Works Literary *2011 - ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' () *2019 - ''The Waiting Hours'' Film *2002 ''Baba ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Hannah
Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, ''The Wedding Script''. He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre Playwrights Colony. He had also worked as a dramaturg for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. His novel ''Ragged Islands'' won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. In 2012 his play ''The Cave Painter'' received the Carol Bolt award. His latest play, ''Resident Aliens'', will debut at Theatre New Brunswick in 2022. Works Plays Full Length * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Little
Linda Little (born 1959) is an author from Nova Scotia, Canada. Her third work of fiction has been praised as a "darkly beautiful novel". Writings Her first novel, ''Strong Hollow'' published in 2001, is a coming-of-age story set in the Maritimes that features a same-sex romance. ''Quill & Quire'' praised the rich characters and Little's ability to make them "transcend stereotypes", but criticized Little for "mistrust ngthe reader to understand the symbolism at the heart of her story". In 2006 she followed up with ''Scotch River'', which won three Atlantic Book Awards for that year, including the Thomas Head Raddall Award for best adult fiction. Like in her first novel, Little tells a story set in her familiar home of Nova Scotia. The novel tells the story of an Alberta ranch hand who moves to the fictional town of Scotch River. ''Quill & Quire'' praised her sympathetic characters and sensuous writing. Her third novel, ''Grist'', again takes place in the Maritimes but is set in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |