Katie Vautour

RECENT ARTICLES

From the Magazine Excerpt

“They were clean, decent people… but they had no money”

THERE WERE a hundred ways to get home that didn’t involve walking past the Colonial Building. We didn’t take any of them.

ARTIST CONTRIBUTIONS

Fiction Canada 150

Opulence and Gravy

Katie Vautour is a visual artist and writer who has participated in residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Banff Centre. She exhibits her mixed media work at Eastern Edge and...

Fiction Port Authority

Camels in the Newfoundland Desert

Katie Vautour is a visual artist and writer who has participated in residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Banff Centre. She exhibits her mixed media work at Eastern Edge and...

Q & A Canada 150

Scavenged art

WHEN PEOPLE COME to me after seeing my art, and I get to use found material, they might bring me broken things or stuff that’s been kicking around their house, and then I get to make something out of that.

Fiction Port Authority

How a Small Newfoundland Town is Saving Canada’s Urban Middle Class

WE JUST WANTED TO OWN SOMETHING, even if it wasn't in BC.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Katie Vautour is a visual artist and writer who has participated in residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Banff Centre. She exhibits her mixed media work at Eastern Edge and the Craft Council in Newfoundland, and in galleries throughout Atlantic Canada. As a writer, Katie has work published in a variety of literary journals. Selected awards include the Sparks Poetry Competition (first place, 2016), an Arts & Letters Award (2015), and the Cox & Palmer Creative Writing Award (2016). Katie is also the director of the Piper’s Frith Writing Retreat, and is currently working in conjunction with Newfoundland Quarterly to write and publish a series of non-fiction pieces based on the life of her 94 year old neighbour, John Browne.