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."Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.
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.
In 2025, to mark the award's 25th anniversary it presented separate awards for fiction and non-fiction, but returned to presenting a single award the following year.Maddie Ryan, "Jack Whalen, Lisa Moore and Susie Taylor take home the 2024 Winterset Awards". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, April 10, 2025.
Winners 2000 - Michael Winter, This All Happened"Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 7, 2008. 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 2008 - Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems 2009 - Jessica Grant, Come, Thou Tortoise"Grant named Winterset Award winner". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 26, 2010. 2010 - Russell Wangersky, The Glass Harmonica 2011 - Don McKay, The Shell of the Tortoise 2012 - Andy Jones, Jack & Mary in the Land of Thieves"Comedian Andy Jones wins $10K Winterset Award". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 30, 2013. 2013 - Paul Bowdring, The Strangers' Gallery 2014 - Megan Gail Coles, Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome"Megan Gail Coles winner of 2014 BMO Winterset Award". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 7, 2015. 2015 - Sara Tilley, Duke"Sara Tilley wins BMO Winterset Award". Quill & Quire, March 28, 2016. 2016 - Paul Rowe, The Last Half of the Year"Paul Rowe wins 2016 Winterset book prize". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 17, 2017. 2017 - Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night"Joel Thomas Hynes Wins BMO Winterset Award" . VOCM, March 22, 2018. 2018 - Heather Smith, Ebb & Flow 2019 - Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun ClubTara Bradbury, "Megan Gail Coles wins second BMO Winterset Award". The Telegram, March 26, 2020. 2020 - Eva Crocker, All I Ask 2021 - Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, Nowadays and Lonelier 2022 - Shelly Kawaja, The Raw Light of Morning cbc.ca 2023 - Holly Hogan, Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird BiologistArlette Lazarenko, "Holly Hogan wins N.L. literary award with book about her voyages at sea". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, March 14, 2024. 2024, Fiction: Susie Taylor, Vigil 2024, Non-fiction: Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen, Invisible Prisons 2025 - Angela Antle, The Saltbox OliveCassandra Drudi, "Angela Antle wins 2025 BMO Winterset Award". Quill & Quire, April 16, 2026.
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