Craig Francis Power is a Canadian writer and artist from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Fresh Fish Award in 2007, and the Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2008."Power's powerful debut lives up to hype". The Telegram, September 24, 2010. It was published in 2010, was short-listed for the BMO Winterset Award that year, and won the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2011."Burgess, Couture among ReLit winners". Quill & Quire, October 24, 2011. His second novel, The Hope, was published in 2016,Brett Josef Grubisic, "Rollicking Newfoundland road trip offers lessons about hope". Toronto Star, November 27, 2016. and was again a ReLit Award finalist."Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 21, 2018. His third novel, Skeet Love, followed in 2017. His first book of poetry, Total Party Kill, a meditation on addiction and sobriety through the imagery of Dungeons & Dragons, was published in 2024.
In 2018, he served as a judge for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,"Here are the winners of the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, November 9, 2018. and for the CBC Short Story Prize."27 writers make 2018 CBC Short Story Prize longlist". CBC Books, May 31, 2018.
As an artist, Power is known primarily for a subversive spin on folk art forms, such as hooked rug art."Craig Francis Power Puts Bad-Boy Spin on Folk Art". Canadian Art, February 4, 2013. In 2008, he was nominated for the Sobey Art Award.
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