Winners in the 2025 Arts and Letters Awards Program

JUNIOR AWARD WINNERS  

Junior Poetry [15 and Under] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Ellen Curtis; Clay Everest; Travis House 

Javier Guilarte   Ocean Beach’s 
Erin Skinner  Got a Hold 
George White   Caught in Thoughts 
Makenzie Wishart  A Love That was Left Behind 

 

Junior Poetry [16-20] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Ellen Curtis; Clay Everest; Travis House  

Annastasia Brooks  Buried Home 
Bethany Cater  Western Bay 
Brooklyn Keefe  If it Were me 
Parker White   Overthinking? 

 

Junior Prose [15 and Under] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Allie Duff; Alexis Koetting  

Sadie Butt  Crows and Crowds 
Christina Dawe   Sink or Swim 
Gabriella Kum  Mother. 
Ethan Reid  The Escape of Annabelle and Ada 

 

Junior Prose [16-20] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Allie Duff; Alexis Koetting  

Arielle Connors   An Invasive Species 
Kira Horlick   The Red-Eyed Monster 
Jinx Moore   Blink 
Lena Wills  Ida’s Encyclopedia of the Horsedead Desert 

 

Junior French Literary ($350 prize)  
Adjudicator: Florentina Stroia  

Graham Villeneuve   Midway 

 

Junior Music [15 and under] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Maude-Julia Blanchet; Ana Luísa Ramos  

Ethan Gough   … et le vent est silencieux 

 

Junior Music [16-20] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Maude-Julia Blanchet; Ana Luísa Ramos  

Shana Brown  On my Mind 
Jillian Button   Dear Society 

 

Junior Visual Art [15 and under] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Diana Dabinett; Tangiene Poholko  

Katharine Hamilton   Let’s Boogie 
Ebere Okoro   Dotting the Past: Threads of Métis Heritage 
Meredith Parsons   Fish Studies 
Finn Woollam   The Creation of Tyler the Creator 

 

Junior Visual Art [16-20] ($350 prize)  
Adjudicators: Diana Dabinett; Tangiene Poholko  

Isabelle Barnes   Memory Garden 
Molly Brewin   My Music at Work 
Valentyna Butenko   The Cheshire Cat Head 
Gwendolyn Fiske   My Baby 

 

Junior Media Arts ($350 prize)  
Adjudicator: Andy Jones  

Nyah Williams   The Waltz 

 

SENIOR AWARD WINNERS 

 

Senior Poetry ($1000 prize)  
Adjudicators: Alison Dyer; Marnie Parsons  

Catherine E Daley  On the Occasion of Her Son’s Birthday 
Sarah Feener   Swordfish 
Daze Jefferies   Aftercare 
John Leonard   The Knitter’s Stroll 

 

Senior Short Fiction ($1000 prize)  
Adjudicators: Sabrina Pinksen; Joan Sullivan 

Mark Finch   Island Crossing 
Tanner Hudson   Me, Pop and the Moon 
Jenina MacGillivray  The Butterscotch Palace 
Beth Ryan  Rose Garden 

 

Senior Nonfiction ($1000 prize)  
Adjudicator: Eleanor Dawson  

Christa Eastman   Clean 
Jiin Kim   The Letter 
Donna Mills   Mother: Adjective, Noun, Verb 

 

Senior Dramatic Script ($1000 prize)  
Adjudicators: Willow Kean  

Frank Boothroyd   Game Show Zombie 
Emily Bridger   New Mom 

 

Senior French Literary ($1000 prize) 
Adjudicator: Florentina Stroia  

Laura Helen Penney   La terre donnée à Caïn 

 

Percy Janes First Novel Award ($2500 prize) 
Adjudicator: Agnes Walsh  

Nina Pye   Labrador Patella 

 

Senior Music ($1000 prize) 
Adjudicators: Maude-Julia Blanchet; Ana Luísa Ramos  

Thomas Coombes   C’mon Now we Goes 
Amelia Curran   All the While is All the Time 
Ian Foster   The Endless Wind 
Colleen Power   La Fontaine 

  

Senior Visual Art ($1000 prize) 
Adjudicators: Louise Collier; Jennifer Morgan; Amanda Penney  

Frank Barry  Waiting for Change 
Kyle J Bennett  What Remains 
Gregory Boyde  Perseverance 
Randy Pinhorn   Pinhorn’s Fishing Stage 
Heather Rowe Pitcher  Ask Her 
Tim Pottle   Corn Beef Hash 
Wendy Rodgers   Queen Bridget Wears the Inflatable Crown 
Nicole Sleeth  Nothing Left to Say 
Anastasia Tiller   Mysterious Creature from the bottom of the Catalina Harbor 
Kathy Tucker   Unfinished Tenth Symphony 
Terry White   Wave Over Wave 
Pam Williams  Irish Moss, Tors Cove 

 

Confederation 75 Multi-disciplinary Category 
Adjudicators: Andy Jones; Louise Moyes; Michael Pittman 

Axel Belgarde   Sous l’étoile de la mer   Music 
Roger Power  Foundland  Poetry 
Krista Vokey  A Fighting Newfoundlander  Short Fiction 
Bridget Ricketts   Pieces of a Puzzle  Short Fiction 
Doris Butt  Confederation Through Generations  Nonfiction 
David Sorensen  Tabloid Time: The day the news changed  Nonfiction 
Michelle Clemens  Baby Bonus   Dramatic Script 
Amy Evans   Poisson d’avril   Visual Art 
Robert Thompson  75 Years: A Tragedy of the Commons  Visual Art 
Kayla Walsh   The Campaign   Visual Art 
Marie Lugli  Piecing it Together  Visual Art