Authors of Port de grave Newfoundland

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Featured on our Arts-Authors page are published authors from the Port de Grave area.

AUTHORS

Nellie P. Strowbridge

Nellie P. Strowbridge, a native of Port de Grave and a winner of numerous provincial and national awards, has been published nationally and internationally. Her work is capsuled in The National Archives and has been studied in schools and universities as far away as Belarus.

Strowbridge, a former columnist, editorial writer and essayist, has been Writer in the Library, a mentor to young writers, and an adjudicator in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards. She has also held school workshops and hosted 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 a reception.

Strowbridge is a member of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Writers' Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, Page One, and the Newspaper Institute of America.

Strowbridge's latest books The Gift of Christmas , Far From Home: Dr. Grenfell's Little Orphan The Newfoundland Tongue and Catherine Snow can be purchased through chapters.indigo.ca

Greta Hussey

Author Greta Hussey was born in Hibbs Cove Port de Grave, the youngest of three daughters to Ernest and Caroline Lear. She received her early education at the community's one-room school

In the early 1920s, Hussey's father Ernest Lear took his family to Labrador because of a scarcity of codfish in Conception Bay. Hussey finished her education at Batteau, leaving school at 13. She spent 16 summers on the Labrador and this time of her life would be the focus of her book 'Our Life on Lear's Room, Labrador' which she wrote in the late 70's

While her early life was one of hardship her later life would become one of courage when her husband Max died at the age of thirty five leaving her to raise 5 small children on her own. Today Greta Hussey at 89 is still thriving from the love of her family and friends and hard work.

Husseys book is now in its third print through Flanker Press.

Our Life on Lear's Room, Labrador

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