Our Current Residencies – 2026

Sherry White

Sherry is a 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. 

Amanda Hull

Originally from Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland, Amanda Marie Hull now lives in Conception Bay South with her husband, Paul, and their fur-child, Sookie. She is the Executive Administrator of Conservation Visions, a St. John’s-based environmental think tank, and a doctoral student in English at Memorial University, where her research and creative work explore ecology, place, memory, identity, and the stories people tell about home. Her recent writing has appeared in Paragon, the Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and Riddle Fence. An articulate and imaginative eco-socialist, Amanda loves books, wine, Sunday brunch with friends, and metaphorical rabbit holes. Despite evidence to the contrary, she believes the world is still a good place, and that storytelling may save it yet.