Winners in the 2024 Arts and Letters Awards Program

Junior Division

Junior Poetry

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Katie Vautour, Randy Drover, Maggie Burton

Anastasia Voivod A Snowman
Mia Butler Alignment (an excerpt)
Arielle Connors Birdbrain
Logan Caines What we Forget to See
Bridget O’Brien The Graduate
Rhyann Sibley Ramea, NL
Michelle Woodfine Sinking Out
Sadie Butt These are My Summers

 

Junior Prose   

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Ainsley Hawthorne, Charlotte Jones

Maia McKeown Forsea (excerpt)
Isabella Sommerfield The letters we read (excerpt)
Dylan Whitten Finding Peter P.
Caylee Smith Stoney
Alicia Power Growing Up
Tanish Bhatt A Pawn’s Shadow (excerpt)
Lena Wills Seluk’s Fable (excerpt)
Brianna Russell Black Hole (excerpt)

 

Junior French Literary 

($350 prize) Adjudicator: Agnès Mamet

William Lush Les roses d’or, d’argent et de bronze

 

Junior Media Arts

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Jenn Brown

Jesse Carew Your Cat
Nyah Williams Oranges

 

Junior Music

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Justin Fancy, Ian Foster

Ethan Gough Dead Bodies
Summer Bennett Another Girl
Rebecca-Ann Bartlett Wrong

Junior Visual Art

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Jessica McDonald, Daze Jefferies

Junior Visual Art – 15 and Under
Ava Slaney Hearn A Matter Of Time
Emma Coffin Here in the Garden
Ava Caines Orange Bliss
Adam Masek Fungi
Junior Visual Art – 16 to 20
Bronwyn Fiske Nice to Meet You
Kanto Ratsimandresy Healing the Inner Child
Amy Parsons Our Mechanized Future
Briagh Hogan Haleine

 

Senior Division

Senior Poetry

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Mark Callanan, George Murray

Bernard Wills Pictures
Allie Duff Bleeding through my Jeans at The Bonavista Foodland
Matthew Hollett Lobster Villanelle
Duncan Major Three Voices (excerpt)

 

Senior Short Fiction

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Renée Hackett, Evan Careen

Connie Boland Cards Laid Out on the Table (excerpt)
Darren Ivany The Banshee on Salmonier Line
Ida Linehan Young Never
Kirsti Mikoda Pam Sunday (excerpt)

 

Senior Nonfiction  

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Libby Creelman

Stephanie Morgan Going Home
Sara Swain Palimpsest (excerpt)
Christina Wells The Third Line of my Haiku

 

Senior Dramatic Script 

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Ruth Lawrence, Bernardine Stapleton

Santiago Guzmán Seis Grados en Mayo
Cole Hayley & They All Melt into the Carpet (excerpt)

 

Senior French Literary

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Agnès Mamet

Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou Âme fanée

 

Senior Media Arts

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Jenn Brown

Jason MacDonald Evolution of a Province

 

Senior Music

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Justin Fancy, Ian Foster

Alex Dinn Fairweather Friend
Pat Sloan Can’t Wait
Mark Hoyles It’s Not Bad, It’s Just Fast
Madisan Dohaney Erase Me

 

Senior Visual Art

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Anastasia Tiller, Marlene Creates, Kendall Sweeney

Wanita Normore Powell Tranquil, Inviting Lights
Kathryn Welbourn Gifts of St. Vincent’s
Cathy Driedzic Panorama: Life on the Ria Formosa
Nasim Makaremi Nia Tuckaway
Carolina Valverde Cardenas Glow
Shane N. Dwyer Political Landscape
Maggie Rex August
Amber Gibbon Up in Smoke
Nicole Travers Nkamulamun (My Heart)
Louis-Christophe Villeneuve Vase torus 2023
Shell Ledrew A Newfoundlander at Vimy
Ting Ting Chen A Midsummer Morning’s Dream: A Self Portrait

 

Percy Janes First Novel Award 

($2,500 prize) Adjudicators: Jessica McDonald, Katie Vautour

Sabrina Pinksen Those Who Stayed (excerpt)

 

NLMA – The Art of Medicine Award

($2,000 prize) Adjudicators: Katie Vautour, Jessica McDonald

Andrea Butler  ‘The People of Newfoundland & Labrador say “Thank you, Doctor’ 
Miranda Roxon  ‘Bones of Chlorophyll’