Opening Remarks
SPARKS welcome from Dr. Natasha Hurley, Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences and Dr. Robert Ormsby, Associate Professor and Department Head (English)
Session 1
HOST: Christina Wells
Lindsay Bird, Luke Hathaway, Matthew Hollett, Daze Jefferies
Session 2
HOST: Heidi Wicks
Michael Crummey, Trudy Morgan-Cole, Rhea Rollman, Elder Calvin White
Session 3
HOST: Modeline Longjohn
Santiago Guzmán, Andy Jones, Willow Kean, Paul David Power
Panel 4
HOST: Jen Winsor
Holly Hogan, Allison Graves, Larry Mathews, Beth Ryan
Awards Presentation and Closing
Closing remarks
The SPARKS Literary Festival was founded in 2009 by poet and professor Mary Dalton, who served as the festival's director for the first 6 years. Now organized by Memorial's Department of English with ongoing support from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, SPARKS continues to celebrate the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcase writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a "word spree." The festival also makes available displays of books and journals published in Newfoundland and Labrador and a mini-bookstore featuring works by the authors reading at the festival.