Paul Bowdring
Paul Bowdring is the author of three previous novels, including the critically acclaimed The Night Season and, most recently, The Strangers’ Gallery, which won the 2013 BMO Winterset Award, the 2014 Writers’Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Fiction Award, and was nominated for the 2014 ReLit Award and the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He was shortlisted for the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council BMO Artist of the Year award for 2014. He lives in St. John’s.

Home for Christmas
by Jess Bond; Ann Copeland; Maureen Hull; Kelly Cooper; Sue Sinclair; Mary Tunney; Bernice Morgan; Ray Guy; Syr Ruus; Lynn Coady; Ted Russell; Lucy Maud Montgomery; Ephie Carrier; Patrick O'Flaherty; Herb Curtis; David Weale; Robert Gibbs; Paul Bowdring; Clarissa Hurley; John Steffler; Wayne Johnston; Brian Bartlett; Harry Bruce; Susan Haley; Anne Simpson; David Helwig; Robert B. Richards & Mary Jane Losier


"He didn't speak or smile, just turned his head and walked on, the sun catching his fiery and wiry red hair— naturally dreadlocked, it looked— and as I stared at the oil-stained back of his coat, I recalled where I'd once seen racks of coats exactly like it."


"'Could you put those forget-me-nots in with her?' she asked Dr. Devine, in reply to which, of course, no matter what she thought of it, how much she wanted to plant those seeds instead of incinerating them, the good doctor could only say yes."