2012 Authors
Frank Barry has written several plays and has performed on stage and in film. His play Wreckhouse is a billiantly witty satire on the touristification of Newfoundland culture. Frank Barry lives in St. John's.
Mark Callanan is the author of Scarecrow (Killick 2003), short-listed for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry, Sea Legend (Frog Hollow 2010), short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award; and Gift Horse (Véhicule 2011). His poetry has appeared in various anthologies. He lives in St. John's.
Danielle Devereaux is the author of Cardiogram, a poetry chapbook (Baseline 2011). She was shortlisted for the Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers for her poetry manuscript-in-progress. Her poems have appeared in ARC, The Fiddlehead, Riddle Fence, QuArc, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 (Tightrope Books). She lives in St. John's.
One of the visiting faculty in MUN's creative writing program, Marjorie Doyle is an essayist, film-maker, and t he author of Reels, Rock and Rosaries: Confessions of a Newfoundland Musician. The winner of a National Magazine Award, she has published in various journals, among them Descant, Geist, Queen's Quarterly, and The Fiddlehead. Her website is www.marjoriedoyle.ca
The 2008 recipient of an honorary doctorate from MUN at Grenfell Campus, John Ennis is an editor, anthologist, and the author of twelve books of poetry. Just retired as Head of the School of Humanities at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, Ennis was also Chair of the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies there. His latest book is óisín's Journey Home, in praise of those who built and served Newfoundland's railway. He has co-edited three anthologies of Canadian and Irish poetry, and edited an all-Canadian anthology in 2009.
Host and producer of CBC Radio's Performance Hour, Jamie Fitzpatrick is the author of You Could Believe in Nothing (Nimbus 2011), described in the Globe and Mail as "a fast-moving, unsentimental look at amateur hockey, masculinity...and family secrets." An earlier draft of the novel won the Fresh Fish Award. Fitzpatrick is also an online hockey columnist for the About.com network.
Joel Hynes is the author of the novels Down to the Dirt and Right Away Monday, and the acclaimed stageplays The Devil You Don’t Know (w/S.White), Say Nothing Saw Wood and Broken Accidents. This past year Hynes wrote and directed his first film Clipper Gold. Running the Goat Books and Broadsides recently released the chapbook God Help Thee: A Manifesto, while Pedlar Press released Hynes’s first non-fiction collection Straight Razor Days. Hynes has been the recipient of several NL Arts and Letters Awards, The NL Artist of the Year Award, the Lawrence Jackson Creative Writing Award, The Cuffer Prize, and numerous black eyes.
Edward Riche writes for the page, stage, screen, and radio. He is best known for his novels Easy to Like, The Nine Planets and Rare Birds (and its screen adaptation); the plays Hail and Possible Maps; and for his contribution to the radio series The Great Eastern.
A retired veteran and a recent MUN graduate in English, Lesleyanne Ryan is the winner of the 2011 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, for her manuscript Braco. The novel is set in Bosnia, where she served as a Peacekeeper. Ryan's short stories have won several NL Arts and Letters Awards.
Stephanie Trevorrow is working on her creative writing diploma. She has won the Jeroboam Award for Poetry and placed second in the Gregory J. Power Poetry Competition, both MUN student poetry competitions, as well as winning an Arts and Letters Award for Non-Fiction. She has just embarked on a Bachelor of Education program.
Leslie Vryenhoek is the author of Scrabble Lessons, a collection of fiction (2009) and Gulf, a collection of poetry (Oolichan 2011). Her poetry has won the Winston Collins-Descant Best Canadian Poem award and a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award. She is the director of Piper's Frith, a writing retreat, and an editor of Riddle Fence.
Artistic director and playwright for the Tramore Theatre Troupe on the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, Agnes Walsh is the author of two books of poetry, In the Old Country of My Heart (Killick 1996) and Going Around with Bachelors (Brick 2007), as well as Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre (Breakwater 2011). She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of St. John's.
Russell Wangersky is an editor and columnist at The Telegram in St. John's. His latest book, the novel The Glass Harmonica, won the 2010 Winterset Award. His memoir Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself (2008) won three national awards. A collection of short stories, Whirl Away, is coming out in March of 2012.
Patrick Warner has written three books of poetry: All Manner of Misunderstanding (Killick 2001); There, There (Véhicule 2005); and Mole (House of Anansi 2009). He is twice winner of the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award. His novel Double Talk came out in 2011 (Breakwater). He is currently Special Collections Librarian for Memorial University Libraries.
Shoshanna Wingate is the author of Homing Instinct, a chapbook (Frog Hollow 2011). Her poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and the Newfoundland Quarterly. Her first full-length collection, Elsewhere, is coming out from Véhicule in 2014. Wingate is the executive director/executive editor of the journal Riddle Fence.
