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Guild News and Events
Welcome 2022!
Workshops and presentations will take place online until further notice
- Time: 2:00pm - 4pm or as needed.
- Place: online(Zoom)
- Please note: Non-Guild members are welcome to join the online workshop.
Interested parties can email newfoundlandwritersguild@gmail.com and request the Zoom
link for this event.
Recent News:
Here is the first in the series of readings from the Newfoundland Writers' Guild.
Virtual Readings #1
Introduction by Kelley Power
Cathy Daley
Lisa McCreary
Ellen Reid
Lynn Sorensen
Jo Shawyer
Susan Sinnott
Lynn DeTurk
Bernice Morgan
Brad Jefford #1
The second in the series of readings from the Newfoundland Writers' Guild is available here:
Virtual Readings #2
Introduction by Kelley Power
Kelley Power
Jennifer Morgan
Karin Murray- Bergquist
Elizabeth Tobin Hastings
Roberta Buchanan
Diana Gustafson
Laura Morry Williams
Lillian Bouzane
Brad Jefford
The third in the series of readings from the Newfoundland Writers' Guild is available here:
Virtual Readings #3
Introduction by Kelley Power
Sheilah Roberts Lukins
Jo Shawyer
Joan MacIntosh
Bobbie Brennan
Michael Boyle
Alison Melvin
Ilse Hughes
Mike Martin
Brad Jefford
The fourth in the series of readings from the Newfoundland Writers' guild is available here:
Virtual Readings #4
Please note: We apologize for the sound quality in this live recording and Lilly Bursey, not Sheilah Roberts Lukins, follows Don McKay's reading.
July 2021 Celebration of Helen Fogwill Porter and Guild Lifetime Members.
Introduction\ MC –Kelley Power
Don McKay
Lilly Bursey ( 2018 video)
On The Bus- Ruth Lawrence and Monica Walsh
Jim Payne ( video with Helen)
Georgina Queller
Hilda Chaulk Murray
Jo Shawyer ( Melba Rabinowitz)
Brad Jefford
VE Project4_REVISED_Oct21st.mp4
Celebrating Helen Fogwill Porter and Newfoundland Writers’ Guild Life Members
Pictures of the event are available from this link Celebrating Helen Fogwill Porter and Newfoundland Writers Guild Life Members.
The program for the event is available here: Program.
Guild 2021 Winter writing contest
The winners for this year’s contest are listed below.
Poetry Category
First Place: Michael Boyle
Second Place: Catherine Daley
Third Place: Ellen Reid
Prose Category
First Place – Diana Gustafson
Second Place: Sheila Roberts Lukins
Thanks to judges Ellen Reid and Sheilah Roberts Lukins for donating their time over the busy holiday season to read and select the winners.
Thanks also to Breakwater Books, Flanker Press and Memorial University Press, who generously donated a selection of books published this year which, along with two copies of Lynn de Turk’s excellent books of Newfoundland poetry, will be distributed as prizes to the winners.
Congratulations to all participants for their excellent submissions!
OTHER MEMBER NEWS
Jo Shawyer and C. A. Sharpe published a new book in 2021
Corner Windows and Cul-de-Sacs
Lillian Bouzane was interviewed on CBC's On the Go regarding her new on-line poetry collection Surprised by Joy: Poems in the time of Covid.
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-47-on-the-go/clip/15806467-poetry-during-pandemic-brings-family-together.htm
Esther Slaney Brown and Roberta Buchanan were recently interviewed by archaeologist and explorer, Latonia Hartery, for the radio documentary, Deadweight at Best: The Frozen Voices of Women Explorers, Part 1 and 2. The program is available as a CBC Radio podcast on Atlantic Voice.
During a reception at Government House on October 16, 2018 to celebrate the Newfoundland Writers Guild’s 50th Anniversary, Lt.-Gov. Judy Foote congratulated members on their writing accomplishments. The full article published in the Newfoundland Herald - https://nfldherald.com/50-years-of-newfoundland-writers-guild
Bernice Morgan was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour on
December 1, 2020. Her induction can be viewed at:https://youtu.be/UpBQ2RT-g8s
Lillian Bouzane has just put her new book on Amazon. It is a Young Adult book of short stories. Two girls grow up on Handy Harbour Island, a small island off the north east coast of Newfoundland. At first glance they seem to be living an ordinary life ...
The second part of the book contains stories either told or written by the grandmother of one of the girls, but no less interesting.
If you wish to purchase the book for $3.74. go to:
Newfoundland-Stories-Handy-Harbour-Island-ebook"
Once upon an Iceberg: Errol's Twillingate Adventure,the third book in the Errol the Mouse series by guild member Sheilah Roberts Lukins was recently released by Breakwater Books.
Once upon an Iceberg: Errol's Twillingate Adventure"
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