Writers NL

Writers NL We are the organization for writers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Founded in 1987, the WritersNL, formerly The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, contributes to a supportive environment for writing in the province; works to nurture and inspire writers at all levels and stages of their careers; fosters public recognition of NL writers; advocates for the well-being of writers; and promotes the enhancement of the literary arts in the province and beyond.

WritersNL and the NLCU are pleased to announce the Longlist for the 2026 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Judges ...
06/03/2026

WritersNL and the NLCU are pleased to announce the Longlist for the 2026 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. Judges Susie Taylor and Carmella Gray-Cosgrove chose the following titles from a record-breaking number of entries:

- Sympathetic Resonance, Madeliene Christie
- If You Lived Here You'd Be Home, Molly Clarke
- The Ocean Shapes the Shore, Mireille Eagan
- Ada and the Secret Life of Pots and Pans, Chukky Ibe
- Speaking in Tongues, Christina Wells

Congratulations to all!

A shortlist will be announced on Monday, with readings and award presentation coming on June 18 at Bannerman Brewing.

Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1311301443840682 to learn more.

Only a few days until we announce the longlist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award. Watch this space for more info. Until then...
06/01/2026

Only a few days until we announce the longlist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award. Watch this space for more info. Until then, a juror reveal:

Susie Taylor is a q***r writer who lives in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. She is the author of two books, Even Weirder Than Before and Vigil. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada including Geist, PRISM International, The Fiddlehead, and Room Magazine. In 2025, Vigil won the BMO Winterset Award for Fiction, and the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction. It was a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. In 2015 she was the winner of the NLCU Fresh Fish award for emerging writers. Taylor is the associate fiction editor at Riddle Fence Magazine.

Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s debut short story collection Nowadays and Lonelier (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021) won the BMO Winterset Award. Her work has appeared in PRISM International, The New Quarterly, THIS Mag, Subterrain and elsewhere; and has been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, nominated for the Journey Prize and the National Magazine Awards, and shortlisted for fiction and nonfiction prizes by Room Magazine, the Malahat Review, and Subterrain. She is the Managing Editor of Riddle Fence, a Banff alum, and she was an F.A. Aldrich Fellow at Memorial University where she wrote about uranium mining and industrial colonialism in the north. Carmella is currently working on her first novel.

Attention members! A chance to work with a real pro in historical fiction: Trudy Morgan-Cole. See below for registratio...
05/27/2026

Attention members! A chance to work with a real pro in historical fiction: Trudy Morgan-Cole. See below for registration link and more details.

This event is free, but ticketed. Please visit our EventBrite page to register and reserve your place:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-workshop-with-trudy-morgan-cole-st-johns-a-day-in-the-life-tickets-1990484901924

St. John’s: A Day in the Life

Description:

Travel back 150 years in time with historical fiction writer Trudy Morgan-Cole! In this workshop, participants will use a St. John's newspaper from June 1876 as a prompt for a piece of creative writing. This is a chance to build your writing skills while exploring the past. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, tablet or other device, to learn about accessing historic NL newspapers through Memorial University’s Digital Archives Initiative.

Date and Time:Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 6pm-8pm

Place: Centre for Newfoundland Studies, QEII Library, Memorial University

Presented in partnership with The Centre for Newfoundland Studies and Memorial University.

Attention members! Did you publish a book of fiction or a book for children/youth in 2024 or 2025?Enter it into the Newf...
05/26/2026

Attention members! Did you publish a book of fiction or a book for children/youth in 2024 or 2025?
Enter it into the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards, presented by WritersNL and our sponsors, including Killick Capital.

All eligibility requirements and submission procedures available on our website at:

https://writersnl.ca/literary-awards/the-newfoundland-and-labrador-book-awards/

One week left to apply to be a paid mentor in the 2026 WritersNL Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers. We're looking ...
05/25/2026

One week left to apply to be a paid mentor in the 2026 WritersNL Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers. We're looking for experienced writers and mentors from among our membership to loan the next generation of writers a hand up. See our website for all eligibility and application requirements.

https://writersnl.ca/programs-services/mentorship-program/

Deadline to apply is fast approaching! See our website below for full details.WritersNL is now accepting applications fr...
05/15/2026

Deadline to apply is fast approaching! See our website below for full details.

WritersNL is now accepting applications from individuals interested in acting as mentors in its 2026 Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers. (Applications for potential apprentices will be announced later.)

The WritersNL Mentorship Program is designed to serve the needs of emerging Newfoundland and Labrador writers who are committed to the development of their writing, while also supporting experienced writing mentors. The program seeks to help develop writers who are on the cusp of professional publication and who have a substantial work-in-progress, and is made available through funding provided by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

WritersNL is now accepting applications for the six available mentor positions. Mentor positions are for writers with a history of publication and a commitment to the craft of writing.

The deadline for submission of mentor applications is 5pm, NST, May 29, 2026.

For details on eligibility and application requirements, please visit: https://writersnl.ca/programs-services/mentorship-program/

Attention members. Black Panel Press is now accepting long form prose submissions to supplement their graphic novel line...
05/15/2026

Attention members. Black Panel Press is now accepting long form prose submissions to supplement their graphic novel line. Novels and narrative non-fiction. See below for more details.

Call for Submissions: Black Panel Press

Black Panel Press is now accepting submissions for graphic novels, novels, and narrative nonfiction.

Black Panel Press is an independent publisher that relocated to St. John’s in 2024. Since 2017, we have primarily published graphic novels, with a focus on literary, international, and visually distinctive work, including the local anthology Town: St. John’s in Comics. Our books are distributed internationally, and we’ve built our list around literary, artistic, and culturally distinctive projects.

While we remain primarily a graphic novel publisher, we are now expanding submissions beyond comics and are especially interested in novels and narrative nonfiction with a strong voice, a clear point of view, and literary or cultural value.

We are looking for bold, distinctive work that feels personal, original, and difficult to ignore. We are especially interested in projects that are strange, beautiful, political, funny, unsettling, visually ambitious, or hard to place elsewhere.

Learn more here:

https://blackpanelpress.com/pages/graphic-novel-submissions

WritersNL is now accepting applications from individuals interested in acting as mentors in its 2026 Mentorship Program ...
05/12/2026

WritersNL is now accepting applications from individuals interested in acting as mentors in its 2026 Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers. (Applications for potential apprentices will be announced later.)

The WritersNL Mentorship Program is designed to serve the needs of emerging Newfoundland and Labrador writers who are committed to the development of their writing, while also supporting experienced writing mentors. The program seeks to help develop writers who are on the cusp of professional publication and who have a substantial work-in-progress, and is made available through funding provided by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

WritersNL is now accepting applications for the six available mentor positions. Mentor positions are for writers with a history of publication and a commitment to the craft of writing.

The deadline for submission of mentor applications is 5pm, NST, May 29, 2026.

For details on eligibility and application requirements, please visit: https://writersnl.ca/programs-services/mentorship-program/

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223 Duckworth Street
St. John's, NL
A1C6N1

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