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CBC Books | Posted: August 2, 2018 8:13 PM | Last Updated: August 30, 2018

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Caption: Michael Crummey is the author of Little Dogs. (Holly Hogan)

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 — Sweetland in 2014 and Galore in 2009. His latest is the poetry collection Little 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."

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Media Audio | WAM : Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey won the inaugural Writers' Trust Fellowship this week

Caption: 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

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Media Audio | As It Happens : Michael Crummey's latest poetry collection Little Dogs: about family, love and longing for Newfoundland

Caption: 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.

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