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Shelly Kawaja is the author of The Raw Light of Morning, winner of the 2022 BMO Winterset Award. Her short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in several magazines such as Riddle Fence, Horseshoe Literary Magazine, The Humber Literary Review, The Dalhousie Review and Post-Colonial Text. She was shortlisted for the Bridge Prize, the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fresh Fish Award and was the winner of the GritLit 2020 short fiction contest. Shelly is a graduate of UBC's MFA program, Memorial University of Newfoundland and The Humber School for Writers. She lives in Corner Brook, NL where she is teaching creative writing at Memorial University's Grenfell campus.
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Events
Coastlines Book Club
December 10, 2023 - Shelly Kawaja and Holly Hogan, Interview with Angela Antle,
Memorial University's Signal Hill Campus, 11am-1pm. St. John's, NL
Trails Tales and Tunes, May 19-28, 2023
May 27 - Shelly Kawaja and musical performers, Kacie and Gary Callahan, Sandy Morris, Bill Rose and Craig Young, and Ol Billy Bob Boy, The Town Hall, Norris Point, Newfoundland and Labrador
OcreFest, July 7-9 , 2023
July 8th - Shelly Kawaja, William Ping, Bridget Canning, , music by Janet Cull and Natalie Noseworthy, Ochre House Retreat, Ochre Pit Cove, NL
Winterset in Summer, August 11-13, 2023
August 12 - Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with Shelly Kawaja, Lisa Moore and Meghan Greeley, The Beaches Art and Heritage Centre, Eastport, NL
Writers at Woody Point, August 15-20, 2023
August 17 - Shelly Kawaja and Aley Waterman, music by Noah Hamilton, The Merchant Tavern (upstairs)
August 19 - Shelly Kawaja, Elizabeth Hay, Jesse Thistle and music by Nico Paulo, Lomond trail head
August 20 - Shelly Kawaja, Andy Jones, Paul Dean, with music by Tickle Harbour, The Heritage Theatre
Marble Mountain Literary Festival, October 13-15, 2023
October 14, 2022 - Shelly Kawaja, Lindsay Bird, Aimee Wall, Elaine McCluskey, and Michelle Buttler Hallett, Steady Brook, NL
Indie Reading Room
The Literary Press Group
November 3, 2022 - Shelly Kawaja, Chy Ryan Spain, S. Portico Bowman, Russell Wangersky, Mark Callanan, Sue Sinclaire, and Robert Chafe, The Landing at Memorial University, St. John's, NL
GritLIT
Meet out Contest Winners
November 19, 2022 - Virtual Readings by Shelly Kawaja and Sarah O'Connor
Press
Corner Brook Author wins 12K Winterset award, CBC
Review, The Saltwire: Someone Buy the Film Rights to this Newfoundland Debut
Review, Consumed by Ink: From the Library, The Past, The Future and the 1990s
Review, Atlantic Books Today, p. 16
Review and Interview by Denise Flint for Downhome Magazine
Interview with Bernice Hillier, CBC Morning
Interview with Joan Sullivan, The Newfoundland Quarterly
Interview, The Write Project Podcast
Interview with Sachi Nag, The Artisanal Writer
Interview with Dylan Farrell, Horseshoe Literary Magazine
