Writer, Artist, Newfoundlander
The Atlantic Journalism Awards announced its 2019 winners on May 8, 2020 (read the news release). I was honoured to receive recognition for my artwork. My landscape art featured on the fall 2019 cover of Atlantic Books Today, which secured Gold for Best Cover. One of my nonfiction pieces, “Accordion to Don” from the summer […]
Read More Recognition for Art and Writing at this year’s Atlantic Journalism AwardsMy latest for Downhome magazine, take a trip to Quirpon Island, the northernmost point of the island of Newfoundland.
Read More Cover Story: Off The Beaten PathABT features a review by fisheries scientist Jeffrey A. Hutchings of my book, Cod Collapse.
Read More Atlantic Books Today “Cod Collapse” ReviewThanks to Canadian Geographic for running an excerpt of my book
Read More Canadian Geographic features excerpt of “Cod Collapse”Details of Fall 2019 Book Tour for “Cod Collapse”
Read More Fall Book Tour 2019A review of Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)
Read More Book Review: Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou (2005)Features quotes from select samples of my writing. Current keepsakes come from my 2018-20 works.
Read More Keepsake GalleryWater is a book about our global freshwater supply and its quality. It’s a policy-relevant and science-rich book but is neither a policy book nor an academic book. Like its subject matter, this book is meant for everyone. Author Mark de Villiers writes: “Water is not ‘ours’ or ‘theirs,’ but the planet’s. We use water, and […]
Read More Book Review: Marq de Villiers’ Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (2003)The Danger Tree artfully combines family memoir and historical nonfiction. Just as author, David Macfarlane, introduces readers to his maternal family, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, he establishes the major events of the early twentieth century. The event Macfarlane most prominently features is the First World War. For the Goodyears, WWI means “three dead sons paraded […]
Read More Book Review: David Macfarlane’s The Danger Tree (2014)My father told me about the one-room variety school he and my uncles attended in Little Bay East, Newfoundland. The community didn’t have an adequate number of students to accommodate separate classes. So, the school children up to grade five shared their own classroom, while the preteens and teens from grade six onwards shared their […]
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