Finalists announced for the 2017 BMO Winterset Award:
Bridget Canning
“The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes”, Breakwater Books, St. John’s
Joel Thomas Hynes
“We’ll All Be Burnt In Our Beds Some Night”, Harper Perennial, imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto
Wayne Johnston
“First Snow, Last Light”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd.,Toronto.
Finalists will read from their works and answer questions from the audience at a public reading and reception at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21 at The Rooms in St. John’s.
Joel Thomas Hynes is the author of two works of fiction which he recorded with Rattling Books: Down to the Dirt and Say Nothing, Saw Wood.