Donna Morrissey, Anita Rau Badami, Elizabeth Murphy, and Dierdre Halbot

Donna Morrissey has been a favourite of Woody Point audiences going right back to the beginning of our festival. We are thrilled that she is returning this year to launch her new family memoir, Tell It To The Water: Five Siblings Tell of Their Father’s Grief and His Struggle Back to Hope.

Anita Rau Badami burst on to the Canadian literary scene in 1996 with the publication of Tamarind Mem. Her second novel, The Hero’s Walk won the regional Commonwealth Prize and was a Canada Reads finalist. Anita will make her Woody Point debut in August to launch her first novel in fifteen years, Asha In Her Garden.

Newfoundland born-and-raised Elizabeth Murphy was nominated for the prestigious Dublin Literary Award (won last year by Michael Crummey) for her novel The Weather Diviners. Set in Newfoundland in 1942 and inspired by her mother Maisie Power’s diary of the time, it tells the story of Violet Morgen, whose sixth sense for forecasting the weather takes her from her outport home to a job working for the American military.

Our New Voices event this year features Diedre Halbot from the Bay of Islands, whose writing draws from her French and Mi’kmaq roots. Her acclaimed debut novel, Little Spoons, sets a supernatural family tale against the backdrop of West Coast Newfoundland.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 9 at 1PM Newfoundland time via Ticketpro!