Jessica Grant Named Newfoundland And Labrador Arts Council Artist Of The Year

Jessica Grant, whose debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise (Knopf, 2009) won the Winterset Award and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, is this year's recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council's Artist of the Year Award. In an interview with the Telegram, Grant said, "To be called an artist and then to be called artist of the year in a province that has so many amazing artists means a tremendous amount to me. I really can’t think of anything that’s been a greater honour.”

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Rattling Books is pleased to have Jessica Grant's short story "The Princification Process" (read by the author) available, as an individual download and as part of the short fiction collection EarLit Shorts 3.

Jessica Grant Reads At MUN's Petro-Canada Hall, February 10

Memorial University's current Writer in Residence, Jessica Grant, will be giving a public reading at the Petro-Canada Hall on Thursday, February 10. For more information, follow this link.

Grant's debut novel, Come, Thou Tortoise, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Evergreen Award, and was a finalist for the Young Adult Canadian Book Award and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.




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Listen to an excerpt from Rattling Books' audio edition of Jessica Grant's short story "The Princification Process," narrated by the author. This story is available as an individual MP3 download, and is also featured on EarLit Shorts 3, an audio book collection of short fiction.

Jessica Grant: "Writers Write In A Voice They Can't Speak With"

Read an interview with Jessica Grant, in which she talks about how she got her start as a writer, and discusses her new position as Writer in Residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Listen to an excerpt from The Princification Process,"Rattling Books' audio edition of a short story by Jessica Grant, narrated by the author. The Princification Process is available as an individual MP3 download, and is also featured on EarLit Shorts 3, a collection of short fiction by Grant, Richard Cumyn, Steven Heighton, Susan Rendell, Patrick Warner and Emily White.

Mary Dalton and Jessica Grant on Piper's Frith Faculty

Mary Dalton, Jessica Grant and Kevin Major are this year's faculty at Piper's Frith: Writing in Kilmory, an annual writers' workshop based in Swift Current, Newfoundland. Visit the website of the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador for more details.

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Mary Dalton's poetry collection Merrybegot is available on unabridged audio from Rattling Books. Jessica Grant's short story "The Princification Process" is available as a digital download from rattlingbooks.com, or as part of the EarLit Shorts 3 anthology of short fiction.

Speaking of Jessica Grant...

Salty Ink points out a link to this video review (from the people at The Keepin' It Real Book Club) of Jessica Grant's novel, Come, Thou Tortoise.




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Jessica Grant's story "The Princification Procees" is available as a digital download from rattlingbooks.com, or as part of the EarLit Shorts 3 audio anthology of short fiction.

Jessica Grant Interviews

In case you haven't yet come across them, here are two interviews with Jessica Grant, author of the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award-winning book, Come, Thou Tortoise.

The first interview is from the website of The National Post. Click here to read it. The second is from Salty Ink, a website dedicated to Atlantic Canadian writers and writing. Read it here.
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Jessica Grant's story, "The Princification Process," is available as a digital download from Rattling Books. It also appears in the anthology EarLit Shorts 3. Her short story collection, Making Light of Tragedy, is forthcoming in the fall of 2010 as a Rattling Books unabridged audiobook.