Gerard Collins on shortlist for Heritage and History Book Award

WFNB member, Gerard Collins’ book, Finton Moon (Creative Books), has been nominated for Newfoundland’s Heritage and History Book Award.

Collins describes the book as an adult gothic fairytale about an unusual child, Finton Moon, who has healing hands. A gentle soul growing up in the rough town of Darwin, Newfoundland, he lives with his strict Catholic mother and grandmother, lawless father and two older brothers.

The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador which awards the prize, alternates annually between fiction and children’s/YA literature, and non-fiction and poetry, with this year’s awards recognizing the former two genres.