The Winterset Award is a Canadian
literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. ...
, presented annually by the
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council to a work judged to be the best book, regardless of genre, published by a writer from
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
.
["Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize"]
cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.
The award was created by journalist and historian
Richard Gwyn in memory of his wife
Sandra following her death in 2000. Winterset was the name of Sandra Gwyn's childhood home in
St. John's.
Winners
* 2000 -
Michael Winter, ''This All Happened''
["Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize"]
CBC News
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Newfoundland and Labrador, March 7, 2008.
* 2001 -
Michael Crummey, ''The River Thieves''
* 2002 -
Joan Clark, ''The Word for Home''
* 2003 -
Robert Mellin
Israel Melnikoff (September 22, 1902 – July 10, 1994), known professionally as Robert Mellin, was a Russian Empire-born American composer and lyricist and music publisher. Born in Kyiv and raised in Chicago, where his first job was music plu ...
, ''Tilting''
* 2004 -
Edward Riche, ''The Nine Planets''
* 2005 -
Joan Clark, ''An Audience of Chairs''
* 2006 -
Kenneth J. Harvey
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born 22 January 1962) is a Canadian writer. His debut novel was ''The Town That Forgot How to Breathe''.
Personal life
Harvey lives in St. John's, Newfoundland
St. John's is the capital and largest city of ...
, ''Inside''
* 2007 -
Kathleen Winter, ''boYs''
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* 2008 - Randall Maggs, ''Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems''
* 2009 - Jessica Grant, ''Come, Thou Tortoise''
* 2010 - ]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 Glass Harmonica''
* 2011 - Don McKay Don McKay may refer to:
* Don McKay (poet) (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
* Don McKay (actor) (1925–2018), American actor, dancer and singer
* Don McKay (rugby union) (born 1937), New Zealand rugby union player
* Sir Don McKay (p ...
,'' The Shell of the Tortoise''
* 2012 - Andy Jones, ''Jack & Mary in the Land of Thieves''
* 2013 - Paul Bowdring, ''The Strangers' Gallery''
* 2014 - Megan Gail Coles, ''Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome''
* 2015 - Sara Tilley, ''Duke''
* 2016 - Paul Rowe, ''The Last Half of the Year''
* 2017 - Joel Thomas Hynes, '' We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night''
* 2018 - Heather Smith, ''Ebb & Flow''
* 2019 - Megan Gail Coles, ''Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club''
*2020 - Eva Crocker
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection ''Barrelling Forward'' was published in 2017.
The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker, she was a ...
, ''All I Ask''
*2021 - Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, ''Nowadays and Lonelier''
References
External links
Winterset Award
Canadian non-fiction literary awards
Newfoundland and Labrador awards
Awards established in 2000
2000 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian fiction awards
Canadian poetry awards
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