Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s NOWADAYS AND LONELIER wins the 2021 BMO Winterset Award

NOWADAYS AND LONELIER by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove has won the 2021 BMO Winterset Award, celebrating excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.

“The BMO Winterset Award is managed by ArtsNL, but is a partnership made possible through the generous support from BMO Financial Group, the Sandra Fraser Gwyn Foundation, and Carol Bishop Gwyn, widow of the project’s founder, writer Richard Gwyn, O.C. The prize awarded to the annual winner is $12,500, while the finalists each receive $3,000. It is one of Atlantic Canada’s richest literary prizes. 

NOWADAYS AND LONELIER (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC) is one of 35 works by Newfoundland and Labrador authors (either native-born or resident) that were submitted by publishers from across the country. Books in any genre, published in 2021, were eligible. The jury consisted of Petrina Bromley, Eva Crocker, and Nelson White. 

The BMO Winterset Award honours the memory of Sandra Fraser Gwyn, St. John’s-born social historian and prize-winning author, who did so much to promote a national awareness of the arts of this province. Her husband, journalist and author Richard Gwyn, O.C., established the award in 2000. It is named after the historic house on Winter Avenue in St. John’s where Sandra grew up."