Mary Pratt: “Why Do People Paint Pictures?”
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
Hearing a painter you love describe how, and why, they create is a rare treat. Indeed, it is fitting that the Winter 2011-2012 NQ issue containing this article (adapted from…
No place for women: Hilda Dove in the Arctic
BY Maura Hanrahan
In 1930, a Newfoundland woman celebrated her 20th birthday in Greenland. Her smile was wide as she posed for the camera. She was on board a ship skippered by Robert…
Memory
BY Florence Button
Shining dully from the coffers of the soul Leaning hard against the heart. Mute testimony. Memories from the moulds of yesterday. A silent, siren call Glimpses of sacred…
Q and A (Woody Point Edition) with Jamie Fitzpatrick
BY Joan Sullivan
I’d gladly read to the rats at the town dump if they asked me, because I love being at Woody Point. And I think the rats would get my stuff.
Q and A (Woody Point Edition) with Elizabeth Hay
BY Joan Sullivan
Elizabeth Hay is a novelist and short-story writer whose works has been nominated for the Governor- General’s Award and the Giller Prize; she lives in Ottawa. The Writers at Woody…
Q & A (Woody Point Edition) with David Ferry
BY Joan Sullivan
David Ferry is an actor and Dora Award-winning theatre director. He’ll present Short Waves/Short Stories a radiophonic adaptation of a short story on Sunday August 19, 10:30am an 11:30am, at the Heritage…