Michael Crummey won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award last week for his novel The Innocents. The $25,000 prize recognizes the best work of fiction by an Atlantic Canadian writer. On this week's Best of Atlantic Voice, we're re-airing Crummey reading and Angela Antle's live interview with him from last summer's Writers at Woody Point Festival.

Jane Adey of The Broadcast accompanied Newfoundland fisheries companies on a visit to Iceland's Ocean Cluster House. A start-up incubator that is transforming the fishery there.

This week on the Best of Atlantic Voice an interview with artist Camille Turner who installed her Afronautic Research Lab at the Bonavista Biennale in 2019. The lab exposed viewers to the history of Newfoundland's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the builder of many of the ships.

This week on the best of Atlantic Voice, Moira Donovan’s documentary Breaching Tradition about the the threat posed by climate change to Nova Scotia’s Acadian dyke system and how scientists and communities are at odds.

Richard Woodbury's documentary about a WW2 spitfire named Florence. The surprising story of Cape Breton pilot Ed Mann and his favourite plane - an aircraft with connections to generations of people across many countries.

Here is Rebecca Nolan’s documentary Elias’ Pear Trees, gold medal winner at this year’s Atlantic Journalism Awards.

Our story starts this week with a trio of pear trees growing on a cliff in the Battery. Storms sometimes sweep in from the North Atlantic and take sheds right off the rocks in this former fishing village at the mouth of St. John’s harbour.

But the trees are thriving. Their fruit symbolizing how the determination and boundless empathy of Dr. Elias Bartellas enriched Newfoundland.

My feature interview with outstanding New Brunswick musician Jeremy Dutcher. We originally aired this interview right after he won the coveted Polaris Prize for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa.

The songs feature Jeremy‘s vocals and piano mixed with the archival voices of his ancestors singing from wax cylinders. With fewer than 100 speakers left of the Wolastoqiyik language, Dutcher is bringing his culture to a new younger audience. I started our discussion asking Jeremy how he discovered the song archives.

This has been a heartbreaking week in Nova Scotia. Indeed, throughout the Atlantic region we are feeling pain and frustrated by the physical distancing that doesn’t allow us to express our solidarity with those who have lost loved ones. Roy Ellis says feelings of anger, hopelessness, guilt, and sadness are perfectly normal after trauma. Roy is a grief counselor in Nova Scotia. Who says what we're feeling is "Anguish."

Today a new doc from former prison inmate Stephen Miller. It follows Great Big Sea co- founder Sean McCann on his recent visit to Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, where he spoke emotionally about his road to recovery from sexual abuse and addictions.

In this new two-part documentary, Rebecca Nolan follows musician and writer Richard Simas on his quest to trace the exact origin of the a beloved set of Newfoundland tunes called: The Portuguese Waltzes.