Nellie P. Strowbridge is one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most beloved and prolific authors. She is the winner of provincial and national awards and has been published nationally and internationally. Her work is capsuled in the National Archives as Newfoundland’s winner in Canada’s Stamp of Approval Award for a letter written to Canada 2117.

Strowbridge, a former columnist and editorial writer, an essayist and an award-winning poet, is a seventeen-time winner in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Awards. She has been Writer in the Library, a mentor to young writers, an adjudicator in the Provincial Arts and Letters Awards, an assessor on the Newfoundland and Labrador Grants Committee, and a judge on the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. She has held school workshops in Canada and Ireland, and also hosted a Seminar/Gabfest for International Women’s Day in Cobh, Ireland, where she was Writer-in-Residence. The Canadian Embassy in Dublin also sponsored a reading and reception.

The author is a member of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Writers’ Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets (Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Representative), and Page One.

Read the Q & A with Nellie P. Strowbridge

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• Far From Home: Dr. Grenfell's Little Orphan
• The Gift of Christmas
• Maiden from the Sea
• The Newfoundland Tongue