Over 50 Newfoundlanders & Labradorians have a new award to add to their bios, and a little more money in hand, thanks to the 2016 NL Arts and Letters Awards. The Arts and Letters awards are an annual celebration of local arts, across all disciplines, from scripts to songs, and books to the visual arts. There are categories for adults and youth alike, and this year alone, they doled out $44,000 in prizes.
On Monday, you will be able to sample and see work by the winners here: http://www.btcrd.gov.nl.ca/artsculture/artsandletters/winning_entries.html
Senior Poetry ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Joe Bishop | St. John’s | Shell Shock |
Nathan Downey | St. John’s | Eating Songbirds |
Mary Germaine | St. John’s | If Icarus had a Sister |
Anthony Lambe | Paradise | Seconds |
Senior Short Fiction ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Bridget Canning | St. John’s | Bradley and Molly 4Ever |
Michael Finn | St. Bernard’s-Jacques Fontaine | Everything’s Cool |
Dane Gill | Gander | The Astronaut’s Dog |
Sarah Penney-Flynn | Bide Arm | Trawling the Dark |
Senior Non-Fictional Prose ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Laura Barron | St. John’s | Riding with the Red Barron |
Chloe Edbrooke | St. John’s | Sitting Shiva |
Ed Kavanagh | Mount Pearl | Aunts |
Senior Dramatic Script ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Megan Gail Coles | St. John’s | Grace |
Clayton Hare | Corner Brook | Sins of the Children |
Junior Poetry ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Emily Collins | Stephenville | Euthanized |
Brianna Gibbon | Stephenville | Cracks |
Evan Girardin | Stephenville | Making Use |
Guadalupe Koen-Alonso | St. John’s | Consumed |
Ethan Lewis | St. John’s | On the Rocks |
Olivia Parsons | St. John’s | Hands |
Harrison Porter | Kippens | Peace |
Breanna Sheppard | Paradise | Such a Pretty Girl |
Junior Prose ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Leslie Claire Amminson | St. John’s | Pulled |
Olivia Bradbury | Upper Island Cove | Monsters in Us All |
Emma Cole | St. John’s | Siblings |
Ashley Hare | Harbour Grace | The Blind Side |
Eva Haas | St. John’s | The Ballad of a Shooting Star |
Ethan McDonald | Portugal Cove | Picture This |
Caleb Welbourn Jones | Portugal Cove | The Art of Arguing: How to Write a Persuasive Essay |
Matthew Williams | Gander | Der Schwarzwald |
Senior French Literary ( $1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Michel Savard | St. John’s | Essais de lumièrel |
Junior French Literary ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Christopher Marmouche | St. John’s | Insensé |
Senior Music ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Glen Collins | St. John’s | Cheque Please (world fusion) |
Aiden Hartery | Labrador City | Images for orchestra (classical/contemporary) |
Rebecca Simms | Mount Pearl | for pillars, gone (contemporary classical) |
Aley Waterman | Corner Brook | Ender Mender (pop/rock) |
Junior Music ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Clare Follett | St. John’s | Warning (alternative) |
Erin Lee | St. John’s | Don’t You Dare (pop) |
Kat McLevey | St. John’s | Good Will (electronic) |
Hannah Wadman-Scanlan | Mount Pearl | Stay Up (contemporary folk) |
Senior Visual Art ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title | Medium |
David Baltzer | St. John’s | National Gallery (D.C.) | Acrylic/oil on panel |
Stephen Brace | Lewisporte | Shawn and Jacob; Father and Son | Film photography |
Brian Carey | Goulds | We Don’t Always Have Time for Tim Hortons | Digital photography |
Jenny Dwyer | Goulds | The Rugged Ground Beneath our Feet will Always Lead us Home | Acrylic on panel |
Fatima Hammond | St. John’s | Ocean Creatures of the North Atlantic | Collage/acrylic |
George Horan | St. John’s | A Murmur of Orange at Dawn | Acrylic |
Nicole Ledrew May | Corner Brook | India Gate View | Oil on canvas |
Laurie Leehane | St. John’s | Pesticidal Homicide: The Plight of Native Bees | oil |
Anne Pickard-Vaandering | St. John’s | “8012775” | Mixed media on stonehenge |
Christina Rees | St. John’s | My Favourite Place in Newfoundland | Mixed media on panel |
Darren Whalen | St. John’s | Shallow Breath | Acrylic/oil on canvas |
Melissa Wong | St. John’s | In the Pink Sky | Acrylic on canvas |
Junior Visual Art ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title | Medium |
Aidan Devereaux | St. John’s | Out There | Digital photography |
Kayla Dunne | Mount Pearl | A Reason to Let Go | Graphite |
Kaeleigh Fitzgerald | Clarenville | Through the Looking Glass | Photography |
Hillary Furlong | Portugal Cove | My Favorite Time of Year | Oil/palette knife |
Joshua Mack | St. John’s | The Wondrous Wildlife of Asia | Paint/markers on canvas |
Ellen Saunders | St. John’s | Tom | Thread on canvas |
Olivia Stacey | Grand Falls – Windsor | St. Lawrence River through a Bus Window | Oil on board |
Brooklyn Turner | Conception Bay South | Best Friend | Watercolor |
Percy Janes First Novel Award ($2,500 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Devin Lee | Paradise | Waking Ambrose |
Senior Digital Multi Media ($1,000 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Jonathan Kennedy | St. John’s | Haunted |
Junior Digital Multi Media ($350 prize)
Name | Home | Title |
Natalie Young | St. John’s | A Day in July, October and December |
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