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Taking Down Names
275 pages, Paperback
Published June 30, 2026
About the author
Bridget Canning
5 books46 followersBridget Canning's debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes (Breakwater Books, 2017), was a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book (Fiction) Award, the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (fiction), and long-listed for the Dublin International Book Award. In 2018, it won a bronze IPPY award for Best Fiction, Canada East. It is currently being adapted for film.
Bridget's second novel, Some People's Children, was published in March of 2020. It has been named a finalist for the Thomas Raddell Award, the BMO Winterset Award and a winner in the fiction category of The Miramichi Reader's The Very Best Book Awards, 2020.
Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows about Us was published with Breakwater Books in the fall of 2022.
Bridget grew up in Highlands, NL and currently lives in St. John's where she writes and teaches.
Bridget's second novel, Some People's Children, was published in March of 2020. It has been named a finalist for the Thomas Raddell Award, the BMO Winterset Award and a winner in the fiction category of The Miramichi Reader's The Very Best Book Awards, 2020.
Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows about Us was published with Breakwater Books in the fall of 2022.
Bridget grew up in Highlands, NL and currently lives in St. John's where she writes and teaches.
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