Congratulations to Sara Power, shortlisted for the 2024 BMO Winterset Award for Art of Camouflage!
The four finalists are:
- Sara Power, Art of Camouflage (Freehand Books), AB
- Lisa Moore & Jack Whelan, Invisible Prisons (Knopf Canada), ON
- Ashleigh Matthews, Otherwise Grossly Unremarkable (Breakwater Books Ltd.), NL
- Susie Taylor, Vigil (Breakwater Books Ltd.), NL
The BMO Winterset Award celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.
Readings by the finalists will take place at The Rooms Theatre on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. The winner will be announced on April 10, 2025, at an awards ceremony at Government House.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of this most prestigious award, a one-time prize of $12,500 for non-fiction was added this year to honour the literary legacies of the award’s late founder, Richard Gwyn, O.C., and his late wife, Sandra Fraser Gwyn, O.C., both of whom were acclaimed non-fiction writers. This year, there will be four prizes: a $12,500 award for fiction, a $12,500 award for non-fiction, and two finalist awards of $3,000 each.
For more information, visit https://artsnl.ca/release-finalists-announced-for-2024-bmo-winterset-award/,