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Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, in 1943. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and St. Thomas University where he majored in English. He has won the Richards Award for short fiction, The Lieutenant Governor's Award, and the CBC Drama Awards. Wayne's stories have appeared in literary journals: The Cormorant, The Fiddlehead, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Nashwaak Review, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, New Brunswick Reader, New Maritimes and the anthologies Atlantica, Country Roads, The STU Reader, Winter House, The Christmas Secret and Winter. His short stories have been dramatized on CBC radio and CBC television.

In the spring of 2005, Wayne Curtis received an Honorary Doctorate Degree (letters) from St. Thomas University. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of New Brunswick. In 2018 he received the Senate Sesquicentennial Medal from the Canadian Senate and in 2023 he received The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Award. Wayne has lived in southern Ontario, Yukon Territories and Cuba. He currently divides his time between his cabin on the Miramichi River and his apartment in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Our Christmas Guest is his twenty-second published book.

Books by Wayne Curtis

Our December Guest

Maritime Christmas Stories

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Sons of a Fisherman

by (author) Wayne Curtis

River People

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Winter Road

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Fishing the High Country

A Memoir of the River

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Homecoming: The Road Less Travelled

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Homecoming

The Road Less Travelled

by (author) Wayne Curtis

In the Country

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Long Ago and Far Away

by (author) Wayne Curtis

The STU Reader

edited by Douglas Vipond & Russell Hunt
by (author) Philip Lee, Herménégilde Chiasson, Fred Cogswell & Wayne Curtis

Wild Apples

Field Notes from a River Farm

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Atlantica

Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

by (author) Lesley Choyce, Alistair MacLeod, Joan Clark, Wayne Johnston, Carol Bruneau, Maureen Hull, David Helwig, Herb Curtis, Anne Simpson, Lynn Coady, Donna Morrissey, J.J. Steinfeld, Budge Wilson, John Steffler, Helen Fogwill Porter, Wayne Curtis, Bernice Morgan, David Adams Richards, Joan Baxter & Sheldon Currie

River Guides of the Miramichi

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Fishing the Miramichi

by (author) Wayne Curtis

One Indian Summer

by (author) Wayne Curtis

Currents in the Stream

by (author) Wayne Curtis