Molly Earl's Crazy Crafts Novel Wins Canada Reads Competition

It was a poignant moment when the novel Crazy Crafts: Home Crafting Projects for the February Blahs: a Novel was chosen as the Canada Reads winner, a day before the 31st anniversary of the sinking of the Bob & Doug Community Poetry Scuba Bubble.

Newfoundland and Labrador author Molly Earl reflected on that coincidence on Friday, as she discussed her win with CBC cultural affairs show Q.

“To be truthful, I woke up this morning and my crocheted pillow was wet with tears because today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Bob & Doug Community Poetry Scuba Bubble,” she said.

"Jian Ghomeshi is all the reward I need"--Molly Earl