Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation
May 9, 2017

Minister Mitchelmore Congratulates 2017 Arts and Letters Winners

Newfoundland and Labrador’s cultural community was in the spotlight this past weekend as the winners of the 2017 Arts and Letters Awards Program were announced at The Rooms in St. John’s.

Awards were handed out in literary, musical, visual arts and digital multi-media categories. In the junior division, 30 winning entries were submitted from youth; while there were 32 winning submissions in the senior division. A total of 505 entries were submitted for consideration under the 2017 Arts and Letters Program.

 The Percy Janes First Novel Award, the program’s top prize of $2,500, was awarded to Terry Doyle of St. John’s for his manuscript Union. A detailed list of award recipients can be found in the backgrounder below.

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"Congratulations to the Arts and Letters Program on 65 wonderful years, a truly remarkable achievement. In a province with such talent, creativity and ability, the Arts and Letters Program has helped with the development and continued growth of Newfoundland and Labrador’s cultural heritage. I congratulate all this year’s winners and participants, and applaud all the visual, musical, and literary artists for their continued work in encouraging and celebrating our wonderful province.”
Honourable Christopher Mitchelmore
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation

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Information on the Arts and Letters program and how to enter can be found by visiting: www.gov.nl.ca/artsandletters.

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BACKGROUNDER

 

2017 Arts and Letters Awards Recipients

 

Senior Poetry
(48 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Agnes Walsh and Patrick Warner

Name	Home	Title
Maggie Burton	St. John’s	I watch you, beheading
Michelle Porter	St. John’s	Profile of an SUV
Henry Kielley	St. John’s	I Wanna
Helen Fox Reid	Corner Brook	The Tale Alzheimer’s Told of My Grandmother’s Love

 

Senior Short Fiction
(41 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Tina Chaulk and Victoria Barbour

Name	Home	Title
Gail Alice Collins	Dover	Blue Skies
Jennifer Elizabeth Caines	Corner Brook	What God Hath Wrought
Susie Taylor	Harbour Grace	At the Cemetery
Karen Patzold	Gander	The Rare Still of the Sea

 

Senior Non-Fiction
(21 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Eleanor Dawson

Name	Home	Title
Christa Willar	Gambo	Untitled
Glen Whiffen	Paradise	The Misdirected Curse of Jimmy Whittle
Margaret Smith	Spaniard’s Bay	In Opposition to the Cat

 

Senior Dramatic Script
(7 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Amy House

Name	Home	Title
David Keating	Marystown	The Deputy Minister’s Executive Assistant
Mark Norberg	St. John’s	Clearwater

 

Junior Poetry
(123 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicators: Kate Vatour and Matthew Hollett

Name	Home	Title
John William Babb	Paradise	Sand and Granite
Sarah Breckenridge	St. John’s	Emlékek
Liz Waterman	St. John’s	Red dye #4
Olivia Perry	York Harbour	Short of an Elite Street
Laura Priddle	Conception Bay South	After The War
Hannah Legge-Butler	Kippens	Tell Me a Story
Ashley Wieffering	Stephenville	The Verdict
Evan Girardin	Stephenville	Fault in Fault

 

Junior Prose 
(42 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicators: Paul Rowe and Bridget Canning

Name	Home	Title
Amy Kay Partridge	St. John’s	Never
Silvi Ivardi	St. John’s	Bittersweet
Zaid Mujtaba	St. John’s	The Fox and the Rabbit
Emma Troake	St. John’s	Free Thoughts
Gregory Short	Carbonear	Blue Sky
Olivia Bradbury	Upper Island Cove	A Year Without Connor
Hayleigh Bursey	Mount Pearl	Venus
Allyson Ricketts	Upper Island Cove	People

 

Senior French Literary
(4 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Mary Barry

Name	Home	Title
Jeffrey Foran	St. John’s	Questions d’un manuel de physiques

 

Junior French Literary
(4 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicator: Mary Barry

Name	Home	Title
Nadia Marmouche	St. John’s	Rencontre imprévue

 

Senior Music
(12 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Aaron Collis, Greg Bruce, and Heather Kao

Name	Home	Title
Susan Evoy	St. John’s	The Inside
Jenina MacGillivray	St. John’s	Roots
Duane Andrews	St. John’s	On the Way to Unity Bay
Chris Pond	St. John’s	Où Je Ne Suis Pas

 

Junior Music
(13 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicators: Aaron Collis, Greg Bruce, and Heather Kao

Name	Home	Title
Nick Trnka	St. John’s	Bruges
Jacob Critch	St. John’s	Nothing
Clare Follett	St. John’s	Bricks
Olivia Jones	St. John’s	Marilyn Monroe Where’d You Go

 

Senior Visual Art
(104 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Scott Goudie, Bohan Furst, Louise Sutton

Name	Home	Title
Nick Kokis	St. John’s	Live at Birdland
Margaret Walsh Best	St. John’s	Spring Lookout
Bud Gaulton	St. John’s	Charlie
Eric Stentaford	Conception Bay South	Fall Light
Dave Ficken	St. John’s	Uprooted Tree
Malin Enstrom	St. John’s	Snow Removal
Jane Walker	Portugal Cove-St. Philips	Sinker (all that was left)
Bill Coultas	St. John’s	Mysterious Sunrise
Peter Jackson	St. John’s	Coley’s Point
Joanne Costello	St. John’s	Tension Gash at Tickle Cove
Janet Peter	St. John’s	Muses
Anne Porter	St. John’s	Johnny, waiting

 

Junior Visual Art
(72 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicators: Daniel Rumbolt and Lorraine Matthews

Name	Home	Title
Joshua Mack	St. John’s	A Glimpse of Africa
Isobel Gauthier	Conception Bay South	On
Grace Pearcey	St. John’s	The Fiddler
Finley Deeley	Kippens	No Longer Human
Jeremy Wills	Corner Brook	The busabir e'Hiiharooa
Seamus Donahue	St. John’s	Look-Alike
Simon Greeley-Noble	St. John’s	A walk under grey skies
Sara R. Clarke	Carbonear	John McCrae

 

Percy Janes First Novel Award
(8 entries; $2,500 prize) Adjudicator: Ed Riche

Name	Home	Title
Terry Doyle	St. John’s	Union

 

Senior Digital Multi Media
(2 entries; $1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Kathryn King

Name	Home	Title
Kelley Power	St. John’s	I’m from Newfoundland (and Labrador)

 

Junior Digital Multi Media
(4 entries; $350 prize) Adjudicator: Kathryn King

Name	Home	Title
Dana Evelyn Stanbridge	Middle Cove	Paper Dream

 

2017 05 09                                                    3:30 p.m.