Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [1]
His debut novel, Blood Relatives , won the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fresh Fish Award in 2007, and the Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2008. [2] It was published in 2010, was short-listed for the BMO Winterset Award that year, and won the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2011. [3] His second novel, The Hope , was published in 2016, [4] and was again a ReLit Award finalist. [5] His third novel, Skeet Love , followed in 2017. [1] His first book of poetry, Total Party Kill, a meditation on addiction and sobriety through the imagery of Dungeons & Dragons, was published in 2024. [6]
In 2018 he served as a judge for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, [7] and for the CBC Short Story Prize. [8]
As an artist, Power is known primarily for a subversive spin on folk art forms, such as hooked rug art. [9] In 2008, he was nominated for the Sobey Art Award.