Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]

His debut novel, Blood Relatives, won the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fresh Fish Award in 2007, and the Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2008.[2] It was published in 2010, was short-listed for the BMO Winterset Award that year, and won the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2011.[3] His second novel, The Hope, was published in 2016,[4] and was again a ReLit Award finalist.[5] His third novel, Skeet Love, followed in 2017.[1]

In 2018 he served as a judge for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,[6] and for the CBC Short Story Prize.[7]

As an artist, Power is known primarily for a subversive spin on folk art forms, such as hooked rug art.[8] In 2008, he was nominated for the Sobey Art Award.

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