The late Ron Pollett has left a timeless legacy of richly textured literature on outport life. He was born in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, in 1900, and like legions of Newfoundlanders before and since, he emigrated to foreign shores in search of work. In the last ten years of his life, he felt compelled to describe in detail his rural heritage. He was ever mindful of its drawbacks but, in his essays, vignettes, and stories, concentrated on the virtues of living as “outharbour people.”
At the same time, Ron Pollett also let Newfoundlanders know what life was like in crowded, dirty, and noisy towns and cities, where, to him, life was measured in numbing increments by the incessant factory whistle instead of the leisurely pace of the four seasons of nature.
“The Outport Millionaire” was the title of Ron Pollett’s first published article, appearing in the Atlantic Guardian in July 1946. Readers of the Atlantic Guardian voted Ron Pollett “Newfoundland’s Favourite Storyteller.”
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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