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Pack Ice Season | The Walrus
The iceberg slid in on a Sunday morning when the water was as flat as a fresh sheet of tin foil. It grounded itself about two kilometres from the shoreline. Or it seemed to be grounded. No one could tell for sure from afar. Doug Prentice was up early to turn the heat on in the church. When he spotted the iceberg through the window, he gasped so hard his lungs filled with cold incense-tinged air and sent him into a coughing fit.
A royal fete, and anticipated holiday
PREVENTATIVE CANCER surgery, Kathy Dunderdale’s twitter account, and mass shootings as regular news: these random happenings came together to shape the idea of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes. Wanda Janynes’ unlikely heroism and its personal fallout took shape only as I drew connections between those three things.
JOAN SULLIVAN: St. John’s author Canning has plenty of tricks up her literary sleeve with new collection
No One Knows About Us By Bridget Canning Breakwater Books $22.95 280 pages This collection includes 16 stories, some just a handful of pages and the last dubbed a “novella.” Many are linked by characters crisscrossing texts or rubbing elbows in shared locales, while the “Gutless Bravado” series unfolds in four instalments. Bridget Canning has previously published two novels.
The Imaginary Real
THE IMAGINARY REAL was launched in 2022 as an app-based project; twenty audio monologues hidden around the city. Each unique monologue was written, directed, and recorded by a team of local artists. These monologues worked in tandem with their locations to create an elevated storytelling experience for the listener.
Tyler LeBlanc leads Atlantic Book Award nominations, with 4 for memoir Acadian Driftwood
The awards, managed by the Atlantic Book Awards Society, recognize books from Atlantic Canada including poetry, illustrated children's books, adult fiction and nonfiction. Acadian Driftwood is a book by Tyler LeBlanc. (Goose Lane Editions) Acadian Driftwood by Tyler LeBlanc leads the shortlisted titles for the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards, a coalition of 13 different book prizes.
What's the future of the arts? The pandemic is giving us some clues
Newfoundland and Labrador has long had a vibrant arts community. Novelist Bridget Canning contacted some of Newfoundland and Labrador's leading artists for their thoughts on what the future might — and should — bring. Writer Bridget Canning was curious to know what other artists are thinking about the future.
The ArtsNL Awards are 35 years old. We're toasting our artists ... from a safe distance
Novelist Bridget Canning reflects on the impact that Newfoundland and Labrador's annual arts awards have had on nurturing performers, writers, dancers and artists. Bridget Canning was ArtsNL's 2019 Emerging Artist of the year. In an essay for CBC, she got in touch with others who have won awards. (Ritche Perez) Last December, a meme about 2020 made the rounds: "July 4th on a Saturday, Halloween on a Saturday, 4/20 basically the whole month. 2020 is gonna be lit!" It got shared a lot.
Editors' Picks: Week of June 1, 2020
How to Pronounce Knife The note had been typed out, folded over two times, and pinned to the child’s chest. It could not be missed. And as she did with all the other notes that went home with the child, her mother removed the pin and threw it away. If the contents were important, a phone call would be made to the home. And there had been no such call. The family lived in a small apartment with two rooms. On the wall of the main room was a tiny painting with a brown bend at the centre.
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