Announcing our lineup of authors for Writers at Woody Point, 2025

Today we unveil the rest of our stellar authors’ line up for Writers at Woody Point 2025.

We are excited to announce that our good friend, Linden MacIntyre, will be returning to launch his new work of nonfiction An Accidental Villain: A Soldier's Tale, the largely untold story of Sir Hugh Tudor, a hero of the First World War, the architect of the Bloody Sunday massacre during the Irish War of Independence, who spent his last decades living in St John’s – where the IRA once planned to assassinate him.

You will be able to buy a copy in Woody Point before it’s available anywhere else.

Linden will be joined by another of our favourites, Lisa Moore, as part of our new, Sunday evening event. Lisa will be reading from her stunning work of nonfiction, Invisible Prisons, the story of Jack Whalen, who heroically survived the horrors of Newfoundland’s juvenile detention system.

Novelist, poet and filmmaker Katherena Vermette comes to us from Winnipeg for her Woody Point debut. Her fourth novel, Real Ones, tells the story of two Michif sisters whose white mother is called out as a “pretendian.”

RH Thomson is one of Canada’s greatest actors. His first book, By The Ghost Light, is a powerful memoir of family and war.

In Shelley Wood’s novels The Leap Year Gene and The Quintland Sisters, she takes real characters and events from history and seamlessly weave them into a fictional narrative that readers have embraced -both books spent time at the top of the bestseller lists.

Originally from Highlands on Bay St Georgeand now living in St John’s, Bridget Canning burst on to the Newfoundland literary scene with her novel The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes – which among other honours, was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Her most recent book, the short story collection No One Knows About Us, won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction.

Along with readings, we will present a full slate of on-stage interviews – including our popular Coffee With…. series hosted by Angela Antle. On Saturday, Coffee With… becomes Breakfast With… Pick up breakfast from our Volunteer Firefighters at the Anglican Church and bring it with you to the Heritage Theatre.

And speaking of Angela, add novelist to her long list of  accomplishments with the publication of The Saltbox Olive in June. Angela will read, and talk about the book, during an on-stage conversation on Shelagh Rogers on Wednesday afternoon.