The Honourable Steve Crocker, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation, today congratulated the winners of the annual Arts and Letters Awards Program. The awards were presented at a reception recently held at The Rooms in St. John’s.
First launched in 1952, the Arts and Letters Awards Program encourages the creation of new works of art. The program celebrates artistic excellence for both emerging and established artists throughout the province.
Prizes totaling $44,000 were awarded in the categories of literary, music, visual arts, and digital multimedia. There were 30 winning entries in the Junior Division and 32 winning entries in the Senior Division. Four hundred and seventy entries were submitted for consideration for the 2022 program.
The Percy Janes First Novel Award, the program’s top prize of $2,500, was awarded to Dane Gill of St. John’s for his manuscript Anson in Antarctica.
A complete list of the award recipients can be found in the backgrounder below.
The Arts and Letters Exhibition, featuring the work of the 2022 award recipients, runs from April 23 to May 15 at The Rooms in the Level 4 Art Gallery.
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“Congratulations to the 2022 Arts and Letters award recipients. I encourage the public to visit the Arts and Letters Exhibition at The Rooms. The work on display is truly remarkable and is a testament to the extraordinary talent we have here in Newfoundland and Labrador. The arts are a vital part of our province’s success story, and we will continue to work with our partners to support this program and the creative process.”
Honourable Steve Crocker
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation
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BACKGROUNDER
2022 Arts and Letters Award Recipients
Senior Poetry ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicators: Sonja Boon, Agnes Walsh
Beth Follett – Wild Garden Sculpture Path
Michelle Clemens – Ready, Aim
Sabrina Pinksen – How to Gut a Fish
Isabelle Riche – What Lies Atop the Sky
Senior Short Fiction ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicators: Mike Heffernan, Virginia Ryan
Deborah Whelan – Unearthed
Josh Pennell – The Price of Iron Ore
Thomas Duggan – Outgoing
Willow Kean – Haha Sushi
Senior Nonfiction ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicator: Eleanor Dawson
Joan Sullivan – Looking for Your Crowd
Shruti Raheja – Most Easterly Point
Priscilla Corcoran Mooney – The Other Happy Ending
Senior Dramatic Script ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicator: Mallory Fisher
José Santiago Guzmán Nájera – Urn
Cole Hayley – The Thin Place
Senior French Literary ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicator: Jeff Butt
Jeff Foran – Une ode à mon masque
Percy Janes First Novel Award ($2,500 prize) – Adjudicator: Trudy Morgan-Cole
Dane Gill – Anson in Antarctica
Senior Music ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicators: Korona Brophy, Damian Follett
Justin Fancey – It’s You
Bill Brennan – Three Seasons
Adrian House – Le Parapluie D’Élise
Darren Browne – La Avispa Alegre/The Tipsy Wasp
Senior Digital Multimedia ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicator: Roger Maunder
Jessica Hefford – A Recreation of Memories
Senior Visual Art ($1,000 prize) – Adjudicators: Tia Connolly, Shawn O’Hagan, Emily Pittman
Peggy Stewart – Newfoundland Morning
Alli Johnston – She and He
Michael Flaherty – Moorings
Anita Singh – Porthole Seaweed
Kathryn Welbourn – Roadside Fox
Jessica Winters – Heart Strings
Tim Pottle – Rubus Aspersum
Kayla Walsh – Good for Nothing
Ethel Brown – Childhood Unplugged
Debbie Cannon – Foggy Morning at Prosser’s Rock
Shell LeDrew – In a Virtual Pandemic; an Injection of Hope
Kevin Melanson – FARR Residency
Junior Poetry ($350 prize) – Adjudicators: Wendy Rose, Travis House, Clay Everest
Lacey Blanchard – Time
Rhyann Sibley – Fall Colours
Madison Gracie – Choices
Bridget O’Brien – Incendiary
Youssef Wasef – Such a Beautiful World
Holly Fillier – Philia’s Cessation
Ava-Rose Smith – Dionysus
Rhianna Bishop – Hands
Junior Prose ($350 prize) – Adjudicators: Josh Goudie, Ellen Curtis
Russell Howse – Little Red the Skip Driver
Ava Hodder – When the Street Lights Go Out
Molly Power – Phantasmic Forest
Megan Williams – Tick, Tick, Tick
Rachel Lidstone – Code
Madison Ryan – The Halcyon’s Lament
Kelsey Ross – Knickknackatory
Emelyn Purcell- The Bouquet
Junior French Literary ($350 prize) – Adjudicator: Jeff Butt
Nyamae Alloway – C’est L’automne
Junior Music ($350 prize) – Adjudicators: Korona Brophy, Damian Follett
Summer Bennett – Car Sick
Isaac Andrews Power – something like that
Daniel Dumaresque Correa – A Celebration of Life
Benjamin James – Waltz of the Reminiscent
Junior Digital Multimedia ($350 prize) – Adjudicator: Roger Maunder
Camden Engelman – A Little More Love
Junior Visual Art ($350 prize) – Adjudicators: Dawn Baker, Louise Collier
Cara Fleming – Covid in a Child’s Eye
Ruth-Ann Rowe – Trapped
Kanto Ratsimandresy – Ankizy Mpihira Gasy (Little Madagascar Bird)
Chloe Regular – Kipine: Winter Solstice
Joshua Mack – A Plethora of Newfoundland Birds
Amy Parsons – The House of Curiosities
Rebecca Mullett – See No Evil
Daniel Halfyard – Goodnight Beautiful, Sweet Dreams