• “Bridget Canning has crafted a novel with emotional grit, just enough anxiety and a fast-paced plot that keeps you turning pages.  If you want something to balance out the grimness of the economy and the evening news, Bridget Canning delivers.”

    Gloria Hickey, Craft Writer
    The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes

  • "Some People’s Children is a riveting and atmospheric epic you can sink your teeth into. What a journey, what a ride. The complex characters are vivid and well-drawn and I truly felt as if I lived the book. A fascinating exploration of deeply complex familial and community relationships."


    Lisa de Nikolits, The Minerva Reader
    Some People’s Children

  • "One of Canning’s greatest gifts as a writer is her ability to weave complex plotlines together throughout her narrative, offering readers little snippets that keep us wanting to know more as we get closer to the end…In Canning’s new collection, No One Knows About Us, threads of the mundane and the wild bring the stories together, and each piece offers a take on human relationships, personal development, the impacts of trauma, and varied kinds of love." 

    Gemma Marr, The Miramichi Reader
    No One Knows about Us

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Some People’s Children

Weaving through a maze ... of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel about the way others look at us and the power of self-discovery.  

Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed.

  • Finalist, 2020 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

  • Finalist, 2020 BMO Winterset Award

  • Finalist, 2022 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (Fiction)

  • Bronze Medal, 2020 The Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Awards (Fiction)

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The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes

The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes is the highly anticipated debut novel by Bridget Canning, one of the most promising new writers from Newfoundland, and is an energetic page-turner about the power of selflessness in a contemporary culture of fear and suspicion.  

Wanda Jaynes is about to lose her job amidst a mountain of bills, and she suspects her musician boyfriend might be romantically interested in his friend, Trish. But Wanda’s life changes radically on a routine trip to the grocery store when a gunman enters the supermarket and opens fire.

  • 49th Shelf Editor’s Pick, 2021

  • Nominated, 2019 International Dublin Literary Award

  • Finalist, 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (Fiction)

  • Bronze IPPY Award for Regional Fiction, Canada East

  • Finalist, 2018 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

  • Finalist, 2017 BMO Winterset Award

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No One Knows about Us

No One Knows about Us is a collection of short fiction about how we find connection in a disconnected world. Relationships exist under the wire, and conversations and revelations occur in secret pockets, both literally and physically.

The characters conduct secret acts of vengeance, kindness, and vigilantism motivated by their hidden yearnings, grudges, losses, fears, and fixations.  

  • Winner, 2024 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (Fiction)

  • Finalist, 2023 Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction

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