Week of August 24 – NL Writers/Literature – Joan Sullivan (guest editor)

Wikipedia Needs Assessment – NL Writers/Literature

A Selection of Existing Articles to Improve:

Megan Gail Coles: Can be expanded
Mary Dalton: Can be expanded
Stan Dragland: Can be expanded
Margaret Duley: Needs more citations
Percy Janes: Needs more citations
Maura Hanrahan: Needs citations
Michael Harrington: Needs citations and can be expanded
Kenneth J. Harvey: Needs more citations and a more neutral point of view
Andy Jones: Can be expanded and needs more citations
Kevin Major: Can be expanded and needs more citations
Elisabeth de Mariaffi: Can be expanded
Janet McNaughton: Can be expanded
George Murray: Needs more citations and can be updated
Patrick O’Flaherty: Can be expanded and needs more citations
Al Pittman: Needs citations
Bill Rowe: Needs more citations
Dora Oake Russell: Can be expanded and needs more citations
Winterset Award: Can be expanded
Russell Wangersky: Needs more citations
These lists could also be checked to see if any of the existing articles need expansion, improvement or citations:
• Wikipedia’s list on Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Wikipedia’s list on Writers from Newfoundland and Labrador

Suggested New Articles to Create:
Smokey Elliott (poet)
Carol Hobbs (poet)
Charis Cotter (YA author)
Running the Goat Books & Broadsides
Uncle Val, Andy Jones’ fictional character

Online Resources on NL Writers/Literature

“Literature” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 3, pp. 320-333.
Literature – Heritage NL Web Site
Poetry Bibliography – Heritage NL Web Site
Writers – Heritage NL Web Site

Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles:

Chafe, Paul. “When a man IS an island: Contemporary Newfoundland literature and identity.” Riddle Fence, 2007, (1), pp. 37-40.
De Leon, Lisa. Writers of Newfoundland and Labrador: Twentieth Century. St. John's, Nfld.: Jesperson Press, 1985.
Delisle, Jennifer Bowering. The Newfoundland Diaspora : Mapping the Literature of Out-migration. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.
Duley, Margaret. “Glimpses into local literature.” Atlantic Guardian, July 1956, Vol. 13(7), pp. 20-26.
Fowler, Adrian. Distinct Society: Cultural Identity in Twentieth-century Newfoundland Literature. 2002.
Fowler, Adrian., and Al Pittman. 31 Newfoundland Poets. St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, 1979.
Gogacz O’Brien, Heather. “Colonial-national identity and women's literature in late nineteenth-century Newfoundland”. Irish Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Research, 2009, pp. 32-50.

The Literature of Newfoundland. Toronto, Ont.: ECW, 2004. Essays on Canadian Writing ; No. 82.
Miller, Elizabeth Russell. Newfoundland Literature since 1949. s.l.: s.n., 1977.
Neary, Peter, and Patrick O'Flaherty. By Great Waters : [a Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.
O'Flaherty, Patrick. The Rock Observed : Studies in the Literature of Newfoundland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979.
Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.