Carmella Gray-Cosgrove: When anyone writes, they are writing characters into a tradition
Congratulations on winning the 2021 BMO Winterset Award! First, and most importantly, at the Winterset readings you said you were watching Star Trek when you learned you’d been longlisted for…
Tara Manuel’s Muskrat Dreams: You play and you play some more
Can you tell us a little about yourself? Sure – I’m the 12th child out of a family of 14 (Catholics obv!) and grew up in Steady Brook on the…
Heather Nolan: Both my writing and attention move in cycles
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I like to take long walks, just looking. Sometimes taking photographs. Recently I’ve gotten into designing knitting patterns as a way of…
Tara Bryan: The air in Newfoundland is tangible
Bryan’s background was multi-faceted: along with her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she also earned a BA in Music Theory and Composition from the University of New Mexico; she…
Tara Bryan: an exacting sense of play
“When you hold one of Tara Bryan’s books in your hands, immediately you sense a remarkable intelligence at work. For Tara, books were never just simple objects—they were journeys, they…
Tara Bryan 1953-2020
Tara Bryan was a prominent, popular, and prolific visual artist and book designer whose death in September 2020 was a true loss for the arts community here and beyond. Today…