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Geraldine Chafe Rubia

Geraldine Chafe Rubia was the eldest daughter of the late Arnold Chafe of Goulds and Mary Margaret “Molly” McDonald of Kilbride. She was a former president of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild, and she had continued to write poetry, plays, and prose. She had won awards in each category and was published in periodicals and anthologies. Her plays have been performed on stage and on CBC radio.

With the Longside Club she had initiated performing arts opportunities for persons with disabilities. She was co-editor of From This Place and had published two books of poetry, A Poem in My Soup and Skating Among the Graves. In 2008 she co-edited the anthology, A Charm Against the Pain.

Geraldine Chafe Rubia passed away on October 22, 2016.


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Turning pages since 1994

Flanker Press is a bright spark in the Newfoundland and Labrador publishing scene. As the province’s most active publisher of trade books, the company now averages twenty new titles per year, with a heavy emphasis on regional non-fiction and historical fiction.

The mission of Flanker Press is to provide a quality publishing service to the local and regional writing community and to actively promote its authors and their books in Canada and abroad.

Now located in Paradise, Flanker Press has grown from a part-time venture in 1994 to a business with eight full-time employees. In the fall of 2004, Flanker Press launched a new imprint, Pennywell Books. This imprint includes literary fiction, short stories, young adult fiction, and children’s books.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation for our publishing activities.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.