Winterset Award

The Winterset Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council to a work judged to be the best book, regardless of genre, published by a writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.^[1]

The award was created by journalist and historian Richard Gwyn in memory of his wife Sandra following her death in 2000. Winterset was the name of Sandra Gwyn's childhood home in St. John's.^[1]

Winners

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2000 - Michael Winter, This All Happened^[2]
2001 - Michael Crummey, The River Thieves
2002 - Joan Clark, The Word for Home
2003 - Robert Mellin, Tilting
2004 - Edward Riche, The Nine Planets
2005 - Joan Clark, An Audience of Chairs
2006 - Kenneth J. Harvey, Inside
2007 - Kathleen Winter, boYs^[2]
2008 - Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
2009 - Jessica Grant, Come, Thou Tortoise^[3]
2010 - Russell Wangersky, The Glass Harmonica
2011 - Don McKay, The Shell of the Tortoise
2012 - Andy Jones, Jack & Mary in the Land of Thieves^[4]
2013 - Paul Bowdring, The Strangers' Gallery
2014 - Megan Gail Coles, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome^[5]
2015 - Sara Tilley, Duke^[6]
2016 - Paul Rowe, The Last Half of the Year^[7]
2017 - Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night ^[8]
2018 - Heather Smith, Ebb & Flow
2019 - Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club^[9]
2020 - Eva Crocker, All I Ask^[10]
2021 - Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, Nowadays and Lonelier^[11]
2022 - Shelly Kawaja, The Raw Light of Morning ^[12]
2023 - Holly Hogan, Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist