Our partners include The Rooms, Music NL, and Memorial University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Writer-in-Residence

Sherry White
Sherry is screenwriter, director and showrunner in film and television. Her executive producing credits include the upcoming Netflix series Granville Girls, created by Adriana Maggs, season 4 of Sullivan’s Crossing, Pretty Hard Cases, alongside co-creator Tassie Cameron, Little Dog for which she was twice nominated for a DGC for best comedy directing, ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley starring Kyra Sedgwick, as well as Frontier starring Jason Momoa. Other TV producer/writer credits include: Shondaland’s The Catch, Rookie Blue, Orphan Black, and Saving Hope, Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, and Murder in a Small Town. Her second feature film Blueberry Grunt, starring Joel Thomas Hynes and Liisa Repo-Martell, is currently delighting audiences at Festivals, aiming for a 2026 release. She previously wrote the award-winning feature film Maudie, starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins and wrote and directed Crackie, which screened at over thirty festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, and Torino Film Festival, where it took home the jury prize. She is the Writer in Residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland for the Winter, 2026, where she is also a lecturer for the Creative Writing English department. Sherry is represented by Harrison Artist Management in Canada, and by CAA in the US.
Visual Artist-in-Residence

Emily Promise Allison
Emily is a Canadian conceptual artist who uses photography, sculpture, and performance to create images that embrace surreal, metaphysical, and dreamlike qualities. She regards the imagination as a fundamental sense that allows us to find or create magic within systems regulated by logic; celebrating the strange nature of existence and the absurdity of life.
Musician-in-Residence

TBD
