Michael Winter (writer)

This All Happened, for example, is organized as a fictional diary, with 365 entries describing Gabriel's life in St. John's, his relationship with filmmaker Lydia Murphy, and the progress of the novel he is trying to write.

The Big Why was a historical novel narrated by real-life American artist Rockwell Kent describing the time he spent in Brigus, Newfoundland, in 1914.

[3] It uses court documents, transcripts and other material to tell the story of Donna Whalen, a St. John's woman stabbed to death, possibly by her boyfriend Sheldon Troke.

"[2] Lynn Coady, reviewing The Death of Donna Whalen, wrote that Winter's use of documentary material "shows amazing faith in the power of story itself, the sheer ability of raw human character to transfix us.

In stepping back from centre stage and turning the spotlight entirely on this devastating array of intersecting lives and deaths, Winter has enacted some of the most powerful storytelling of his career.