Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey is a poet and novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador. Two of Crummey's novels have been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction Sweetlandin 2014 andGalorein 2009. His latestis the poetry collectionLittle Dogs, which features a selection of new and previously published poetry. Crummey was the inaugural recipient of the Writers' Trust Fellowship, a $50,000 award given to a Canadian writer that demonstrates "exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise in their publications to date."

Books by Michael Crummey

Interviews

WAM15:38Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey won the inaugural Writers' Trust Fellowship this week

Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey won the inaugural Writers' Trust Fellowship this week, pocketing $50,000 and a two-week residency at the Banff Centre. The jury called Crummey "a poet of tremendous skill and a novelist of truest heart." Angela Antle i

As It Happens34:07Michael Crummey's latest poetry collection Little Dogs: about family, love and longing for Newfoundland

Little Dogs, big bark. Award-winning author and poet Michael Crummey crafts the stories of Newfoundland, of fathers and sons, and of the history that shapes us in his new poetry collection, Little Dogs: New and Selected.