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"...celebrating 25 years of contribution to the literary arts in Newfoundland & Labrador." WHAT'S HAPPENING AT WANL 2013 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards Pre-Gala Event Come celebrate the authors Enjoy music by Ian Foster & Janis Campbell Short readings by finalists. Refreshments. Live Music. Cash Bar. Free Admission It’s all happening on Monday, May 13th at the Quidi Vidi Brewery (Hospitality Room, 35 Barrows Road, Quidi Vidi), starting 7:30pm. Finalists for the 2013 E.J. Pratt Poetry Award: Mark Callanan, Gift Horse (Véhicule Press) George Murray, Whiteout (ECW Press) Don McKay, Paradoxides (McClelland & Stewart) (unavailable for the event) Finalists for the 2013 Rogers Communications Non-fiction Award: Mike Heffernan, The Other Side of Midnight: Taxicab Stories (Creative Book Publishing) Greg Malone, Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada (Knopf Canada) Joan Sullivan, In the Field (Breakwater Books) Presented under the distinguished patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. For more information, please contact WANL at 739-5215 Location Information: http://www.quidividibrewery.ca/brewery Thirty Books Nominated for 2013 Atlantic Book Awards The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the full shortlist for the ten different book prizes that make up the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards. The thirty books up for awards represent the wide range of literary works being produced in Atlantic Canada—from traditional novels to cutting edge fiction; thought-provoking non-fiction and deeply researched books on Atlantic Canadian history, to poetry; and illustrated children’s picture books to novels written for teens and young adults. The full shortlist is printed below and is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca. Among the more familiar names on the shortlist are media personality and CTV Atlantic’s meteorologist, Cindy Day for her weather-related book, Grandma Says (Nimbus Publishing); prolific and celebrated Newfoundland novelist, Donna Morrissey for The Deception of Livvy Higgs (Viking Canada); and acclaimed poet Don McKay for Paradoxides (McClelland & Stewart). McKay is nominated for The E.J. Pratt Poetry Award. The E.J. Pratt Award, along with the Rogers Communications Award for Non-fiction, is part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards which carry the distinguished patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. These awards cover a two-calendar-year publishing period as they alternate between non-fiction/poetry one year, and fiction/children’s/young adult literature the next. Under the umbrella of the Atlantic Book Awards for the second time now, the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are presented by the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2013 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival runs May 9-16 with free literary events taking place in all four Atlantic Provinces. Festival details will be available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca in the coming weeks. Winners of the 2013 Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at a special awards show on the last night of the week-long festival, Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 p.m. at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, NS. It’s a special year this year for the Dartmouth Book Awards – 2013 is the 25th anniversary of these awards, some of the oldest in Canada. The Board of the non-profit Atlantic Book Awards Society is made up of representatives of the Atlantic Canadian book and writing community. The 2013 Atlantic Book Awards and Festival gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canada Book Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Province of Nova Scotia and Access Copyright, and the sponsorship of Chapters-Indigo, the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, Advocate Printing, The Chronicle Herald, The Telegram, The Guardian, and The Telegraph-Journal 2013 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS and FESTIVAL SHORTLIST Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature Live to Tell By Lisa Harrington Publisher: Dancing Cat Books Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone By Kathleen Martin Publisher: Red Deer Press Enemy Territory By Sharon E. McKay Publisher: Annick Press APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award Sponsored by Friesens Corporation Grandma Says By Cindy Day Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Riptides: New Island Fiction Edited by Richard Lemm Published by: Acorn Press The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini By Bruce MacNab Publisher: Goose Lane Editions Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing Sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil By Susan Dodd Publisher: Fernwood Publishing A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818 By Shannon Ryan Publisher: Flanker Press The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki By Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis Publisher: Cape Breton University Press Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth The Village of My Heart’s Mistake: An Acadian Life By Denise Cormier Publisher: Encompass Editions Nova Scotia’s Historic Rivers: The Waterways that Shaped the Province By Joan Dawson Publisher: Nimbus Publishing French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/ Le goût Français au Canada Atlantique 1604-1758: Une Histoire Gastronomique By Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal VéChambre Publisher: Cape Breton University Press4 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing Haunted Girl: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery By Laurie Glenn Norris with Barbara Thompson Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN By Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy Publisher: Goose Lane Editions In Search of R. B. Bennett By P.B. Waite Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Gift Horse By Mark Callanan Publisher: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press Paradoxides By Don McKay Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Whiteout By George Murray Publisher: ECW Press Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke The Rest is Silence By Scott Fotheringham Publisher: Goose Lane Editions Anna From Away By D. R. MacDonald Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Limited The Deception of Livvy Higgs By Donna Morrissey Publisher: Viking Canada Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration Driftwood Dragons and Other Seaside Poems By Tyne Brown Illustrated by Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo (nominee) Publisher: Nimbus Publishing I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet By Hugh MacDonald Illustrated by Brenda Jones (nominee) Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Toes In My Nose and Other Poems By Sheree Fitch Illustrated by Sydney Smith (nominee) Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Margaret and John Savage First Book Award High-Water Mark By Nicole Dixon Publisher: The Porcupine’s Quill Dirty Bird By Keir Lowther Publisher: Tightrope Books Braco By Lesleyanne Ryan Publisher: Breakwater Books Rogers Communications Award for Non-fiction The Other Side of Midnight: Taxicab Stories By Mike Heffernan Publisher: Creative Book Publishing Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada By Greg Malone Publisher: Knopf Canada In the Field By Joan Sullivan Publisher: Breakwater Books Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers (2013) - Call for Submissions The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL) in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is calling for submissions to one of the country’s most lucrative literary awards for unpublished writers: the Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. The Award, sponsored by the Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union, is intended to serve as an incentive for emerging writers in the province by providing them with financial support, recognition, and professional editing services for a book-length manuscript in any genre. The winning author will receive: a cash prize of $5,000; $1,000 towards professional editing services; and a miniature replica of “Man Nailed to a Fish” by sculptor Jim Maunder. The runners up will each receive $1,000. Rules of eligibility • Writers must be current members of WANL with a completed unpublished manuscript in any genre. Writers may join WANL at the time of submission. • Writers must have lived in Newfoundland and Labrador for at least three of the previous five calendar years, in any combination of 36 of the last 60 months. • Writers are permitted to submit only one entry per year, in any genre. • Writers with a published book in any genre or a book accepted for publication at the time of submission are NOT eligible. • The Fresh Fish Award will accept a manuscript that has been submitted once before. Entry forms for resubmitted manuscripts must identify the manuscript as such, and the year it was first entered must be indicated. Manuscripts submitted more than twice will not be accepted. Submission guidelines • Each manuscript must be typed, double-spaced, and submitted in triplicate. Handwritten manuscripts will NOT be accepted. (Poetry manuscripts do not have to comply with the double-space requirement.) • Pages must be numbered and may be copied double-sided. • Ensure that your name appears on the title page only. • Entries that do not adhere to these guidelines will be disqualified. Postmark deadline: June 14, 2013 Send submissions to: Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Haymarket Square, 208-223 Duckworth Street St. John’s, NL A1C 6K1 Alternately, submissions may be delivered in person at the above address. We regret that due to the volume of submissions we receive we will be unable to acknowledge receipt of entries or respond to ineligible entries. For more information, please contact the Writers’ Alliance at (709) 739-5215, toll-free at 1-866-739-5215, or email wanl@nf.aibn.com.	29 November 2012 Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Promote Your Page Too
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The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the City of St. John's.
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