Breakwater Book Breakouts: Monica Kidd, Rod Moody-Corbett, Willow Kean, Hosted By Noreen Golfman

When: Saturday, August 9, 10:30am. When: Saturday August 9, 10:30 am Saturday morning starts with a spark! Breakwater Book Breakouts brings together three standout writers—Monica Kidd, Willow Kean, and Rod Moody-Corbett—each published by Breakwater Books, a press that’s become a powerhouse for emerging literary talent in the province. Hosted by our very own Program Chair Noreen Golfman. Dr Noreen Golfman is Professor Emerita, Memorial University. She was the founding director of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival and chaired the board of the festival for thirty years. She’s been the president of the MUN Cinema Series for decades, Vice Chair of PictureNL, and co-chair of Business and Arts NL. In 2019 she received ACTRA’s Woman of the Year Award, and she was inducted into the Order of NL in 2023. She has been a board member and was chair of the Winterset Festival—all thanks to the wonderful late Richard Gwyn to whom one simply could not say no. Monica Kidd is an award-winning journalist and multi-disciplinary writer. Her latest title, The Crane (Breakwater Books, 2025) is a novel set in Wyoming, St. John’s and Notre Dame Bay, 1968-1969, and features a young Vietnam war resister who finds himself in Newfoundland in the middle of an intergenerational story of war trauma. Kidd has published seven previous books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as shorter pieces in dozens of journals. She previously reported for CBC Radio in St. John’s before going to med