Engaging Evenings w/ Alex Saunders (Labrador)
Event Details
Organizer
Engaging Evenings
The Rooms – October 16 @ 7pm
As part of our SJS Festival, join Labrador Elder Alex Saunders for a series of his captivating stories, followed by a question and comment session with Alex afterwards!
$12 or free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling(709)757-8090.
Writer’s Statement: I, Alex Saunders, am an Inuit elder (mixed blood) with Innu and British ancestry born in the original hamlet of Davis Inlet in 1940. I have been gifted with a knack for writing but only recently started to put pen to paper. My aim to be published is to leave a legacy behind for Inuit, Innu, Labradorians, northerners, and anyone else across Canada – and the world – who is curious about traditional Inuit life and culture and the adventurous, unconquered spirit of an Inuit man. I have three manuscripts of creative nonfiction in development.
Literary Accomplishments
Guest Editor, Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador Magazine; Vol. 4, No. 4, 2020.
Short Story Writer, Land of Many Shores: Perspectives from a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador, ed. Ainsley Hawthorn; published by Breakwater Books, St. John’s NL, 2021
Short Story Writer, Kamatsiagit Uluianattumi: Safe in a Dangerous Place, Northern Public Affairs Magazine, 2018
Author, Aullâk: A Labrador Experience, published by the Labrador School Board, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, 2011
Author- Older than the moon
Author-Pawabby and Nuds in Magic rocks and fairy doors (childrens story- ages 6-12 years)
Awards
Lawrence Jackson Writers Award, 2017 for History of My Fishing Life
Northern Public Affairs Emerging Writers Award, 2016
Percy Janes first novel award, 2020
