Bernice Morgan is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland. She is best known for her novel "Random Passage" which became a television mini-series on CBC.
Mark Critch is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his work on the comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, initially as a writer and then as a regular cast member beginning in 2003.
Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each.
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Alison Pick is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Far to Go, and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35.
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University. He has been page editor of The Telegram in St. John's, as well as a columnist and magazine writer.
Kathleen Winter is an English Canadian short story writer and novelist.
Jessica Grant is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise won the 2009 Winterset Award and the 2009 Books in Canada First Novel Award and was named as the winner of the 2009 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel was also short-listed for the 2010 Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award, and was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads 2011 competition.
Joel Thomas Hynes is a Canadian writer, actor and director known for his dark characters and vision of modern underground Canada.
The Percy Janes First Novel Award is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador. The award is named for the late Newfoundland writer Percy Janes. The award comes with a cash prize, originally $1,500 and raised to $2,500 in 2014.
Megan Gail Coles is a Canadian writer in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017.
Sara Tilley is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador, most noted for winning the Winterset Award in 2016 for her novel Duke. The novel was also named to the initial longlist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, but was not a finalist.
Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers was established in 2006 by Brian O'Dea, an author from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The award supports emerging writers in Newfoundland and Labrador through financial and editing support, as well as recognition for their writing. The award is administered by the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL). Originally given out every year, the award became biennial in 2009. In 2011, NLCU - the largest credit union in Newfoundland and Labrador with a reputation for its commitment to local communities and organizations - became the corporate sponsor of the award, which is officially known as the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Since its inception, the award has kick started the writing careers of many of its short-listed and winning writers, who were subsequently successful in having their works published.
Patrick Warner is an Irish-Canadian author residing in St. John's, Newfoundland. He writes both novels and poetry. Warner has won several awards for his works, including the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award, the Newfoundland Book Award, the Percy Janes First Novel Award, and the Independent Publisher Regional Fiction Award.
Gerhard P. Bassler was a German-Canadian writer and professor. He was a specialist in German and Canadian migration history. His book Vikings to U-Boats: the German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador won the Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award, which is a part of the Newfoundland Book Awards.
Charis Cotter is a Canadian author and storyteller known for her works of fiction for middle-grade readers.
