The Honourable Bernard Davis, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation, today announced the winners of the 69th annual Arts and Letters Awards Program.
First launched in 1952, the Arts and Letters Awards Program encourages the creation of new works of art and recognizes excellence through the awarding of monetary prizes, along with the opportunity for adjudication, to both emerging and established artists. Original creative work in literature, music, visual art, and digital multimedia are eligible.
This year, prizes totaling $44,000 were awarded in literary, music, visual arts, and digital multimedia sections. There were 30 winning entries in the Junior Division and 32 winning entries in the Senior Division. A total of 382 entries were submitted for consideration for the 2021 program.
The Percy Janes First Novel Award, the program’s top prize of $2,500, was awarded to Josh Goudie of St. John’s for his manuscript The Last Portrait.
A detailed list of award recipients can be found in the backgrounder below. More information on the program and submission guidelines can be found here.
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“For 69 years, the annual Arts and Letters Awards Program has celebrated the accomplishments of our artists, both young and old, established and emerging. Particularly during these challenging times, artistic creativity can have a vital and powerful impact on our well-being. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and entrants, and thank you for your continued contribution to the growth and evolution of Newfoundland and Labrador’s cultural landscape.”
Honourable Bernard Davis
Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation
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Le ministre Davis félicite les gagnants du Concours artistique et littéraire 2021
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BACKGROUNDER
2021 Arts and Letters Awards Recipients
Senior Poetry
($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Alison Dyer and Andreae Callanan
| Sonja Boon | Bitter Love, My Mulatto; or, On Discovering Scotland in my DNA | St. John’s |
| Douglas Walbourne-Gough | Status | Corner Brook |
| Sharon King-Campbell | East Coast Trail, June 2020 | St. John’s |
| Anthony Lambe | Bearings | Paradise |
Senior Short Fiction
($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Agnes Walsh and Dave Andrews
| Emily Hepditch | The Fare | Mount Pearl |
| Ida Linehan Young | The Glitch | CBS |
| Francois Andre van Zyl | Grit, There is No Final Hour | St. John’s |
| Ian Foster | Confessions of a Twitter Bot | St. John’s |
Senior Nonfiction
($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Gemma Hickey
| Virginia Ryan | Beneath the Skin | St. John’s |
| Andrew Winter | 450ml | St. John’s |
| Lisa M. Daly | “Courage? I Should Say So”: Frances Grayson and the Flight of The Dawn | St. John’s |
Senior Dramatic Script
($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Charlie Tomlinson
| Mallory Fisher | Motherskin | St. John’s |
| Darren Ivany | Bowring Park | CBS |
Senior French Literary
($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Brendan Walsh
| Maude-Julia Blanchet | Mettre des ronds dans des carrés | St. John’s |
Percy Janes First Novel Award
($2,500 prize) Adjudicator: Glenn Deir
| Josh Goudie | The Last Portrait | St. John’s |
Senior Music
($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Ana Luisa Ramos and Amelia Curran
| Rob Power | Fair Haven | St. John’s |
| Isabelle riche | Glitter and Saying Goodbye | St. John’s |
| Greg Bruce | Anti-Lait Cabaret | St. John’s |
| Andie Winsor | Sonderless – 3 piano miniatures | Mount Pearl |
Senior Digital Multimedia
($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Deanne Foley
| Joseph Kisusi | BLM Rally Video – Black Power | St. John’s |
Senior Visual Art
($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Hazel Eckert, Vessela Brakalova and Gerald Vaandering
| Nick Kokis | The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters | St. John’s |
| Sylvia Bendzsa | Landfall | St. John’s |
| Charlene Rumbolt | We Dance for Healing | Mary’s Harbour |
| Kyle Bennett | CU | St. John’s |
| Mirian Ouchi | The Hunter | St. John’s |
| Joyce Lee | The Way Home | Red Bay |
| Maggie Rex | Sunday Atonement | St. John’s |
| Kaeleigh Fitzgerald | Immersed | Clarenville |
| Eveline Ross-Phaneuf | Evolution – Partie 3 | St. John’s |
| Dennis Flynn | Spread | Colliers |
| Louise Collier | Feathered and Weathered | Mount Pearl |
| Tangiene Martin-O’Hara | We’re Here (After Nelson White) | Corner Brook |
Junior Poetry
($350 prize) Adjudicators: Michelle Porter, Samantha Fitzpatrick and Randy Drover
| Caiden Benoit | Sunset | Stephenville |
| Emily Pilgrim | Nobody Notices | Stephenville |
| James Burt | Show Business | Stephenville |
| Emma Ryan | flowers & nature | Stephenville |
| Jamie S. Merrigan | Wettaqiet (Descendent) | Corner Brook |
| Amy Norman | Open Arms | Bay Roberts |
| Brianna Russell | The Color of Fading Memories | Clarke’s Beach |
| Holly Fillier | Low/Lone Tide | Clarke’s Beach |
Junior Prose
($350 prize) Adjudicators: Alexis Koetting and Amanda Labonte
| Bronwyn Fiske | Going Against the Flow | Brigus Junction |
| Ava Seymour | The Witches | St. John’s |
| Ava Hodder | Out of the Well | Pasadena |
| Sofia Butler | The Stone | St. John’s |
| Kelsey Ross | The Legend of the Moon | Burin |
| Emma Cole | Matter of the Heart | St. John’s |
| Eva Haas | Welcome Home | St. John’s |
| David Alexander Humby | A Meeting Among the Snowflakes | Torbay |
Junior French Literary
($350 prize) Adjudicator: Brendan Walsh
| Sera Tulk | Memento Mori | CBS |
Junior Music
($350 prize) Adjudicators: Ana Luisa Ramos and Amelia Curran
| Francis Kennedy | Skirja | St. John’s |
| Patrick Troy | Darkest Shade of Blue | Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s |
| Jayne Batstone | I Won’t Say It | St. John’s |
| Benjamin James | A Horologist’s Lament | St. John’s |
Junior Digital Multimedia
($350 prize) Adjudicator: Deanne Foley
| Camden Engelman | Life Under Construction | St. John’s |
Junior Visual Art
($350 prize) Adjudicators: Teresa Kachanoski and Joe Fowler
| Diya Morkar | Rockin’ the Neighbourhood | St. John’s |
| Emily Noseworthy | Gillard | Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s |
| Sera Tulk | Memento Mor: | CBS |
| Rebecca Mullett | The Dogberry Tree | CBS |
| Ravel Rajan | Parallelism | St. John’s |
| Chelsie Cake | Fleeting Moments | CBS |
| Brianna Fowler | Queen of Hearts | Brigus |
| Rebecca Boone | Head in the Clouds | St. John’s |