Opening Remarks
SPARKS welcome from Dr. Natasha Hurley, Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Children’s Story Hour
Lori Doody – The Island (Running the Goat Press)
Joshua Goudie – Where the Crooked Lighthouse Shines (Breakwater Books)
Cara Kansala – The Ewe Who Knew Who Knit You (Breakwater Books)
Moderator: Helen Staveley
Coffee break
Short Fiction
Bridget Canning – No One Knows About Us (Breakwater Books)
Susie Taylor – Vigil (Breakwater Books)
Moderator: Aaron Tucker
francesca ekwuyasi – Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Moderator: Deborah Egbekpalu
Lunch Break
Fiction
Xaiver Michael Campbell - Best Canadian Short Stories 2024 (Biblioasis)
Nicole Haldoupis - Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press)
Moderator: Julia Polyck-O’Neill
Novels
Violet Browne – This is the House that Luke Built (Goose Lane)
Terry Doyle – The Wards (Breakwater Books)
Jim McEwen – Fearnoch (Breakwater Books)
Moderator: Heidi Wicks
Afternoon Break
Joel Thomas Hynes - We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (Harper Collins Canada)
Patrick Cotter - Sonic White Poise (Dedalus Press)
Moderator: Lisa Moore
Break for book signing
Poetry
Mary Dalton – Interrobang (Vehicule Press)
Danielle Devereaux – The Chrome Chair (Riddle Fence)
Don McKay – Lurch (Penguin Random House)
Craig Francis Power – Total Party Kill (Breakwater Books)
Moderator: Mark Callanan
Landfall Trust presentation.
Closing remarks from Dr. Jennifer Lokash, Memorial University President and Vice-Chancellor, pro tempore.
Reception and workshop with Writer’s Union of Canada Atlantic Representative, Jacqui Dumas.
The SPARKS Literary Festival was founded in 2009 by poet and professor Mary Dalton, who served as the festival's director for the first 6 years. Now organized by Memorial's Department of English with ongoing support from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, SPARKS continues to celebrate the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcase writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a "word spree." The festival also makes available displays of books and journals published in Newfoundland and Labrador and a mini-bookstore featuring works by the authors reading at the festival.
