On the twentieth anniversary of the inception of the ReLit Awards, founder, Kenneth J. Harvey, passes the torch along to daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.
ReLit’s mandate is to reignite passion in literature. We aim to provide writers with the platform and acknowledgement to continue their literary pursuits as we grow to include a literary journal and mentorship opportunities for aspiring teenage writers.
Our focus will remain on writers at the beginning of their careers and independent presses.
Katherine Alexandra Harvey is the Executive Director of ReLit, and the Founder and Editor of ReLit Magazine. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at Memorial University. She has been nominated for the
Carter V. Cooper Award, the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Fresh Fish Award, and the Governor General’s History Award. Her work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Exile Quarterly, Quill and Quire, Riddle Fence, The Newfoundland Quarterly, and more. Harvey's first novel, Quiet Time, will be released in 2022 with Vagrant Press.
ReLit Founder
Kenneth J. Harvey is the founder of the ReLit Awards. Two-time Canadian Screen Awards and Giller Prize nominee, he is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer and international bestselling author. His films and TV programs have aired on CBC, Documentary Channel and NTV, and have screened at over seventy film festivals around the world, including Raindance, Hotdocs, Festival du nouveau cinéma and TIFF Film Circuit. He grew up behind the camera and in the editing room with his father, Josiah, who trained at the National Film Board in Montreal. Harvey's books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. He has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Winterset Award, Italy's Libro Del Mare, and has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His editorials have appeared on CBC Radio, in The Times (London) and in most major Canadian newspapers, including The Globe & Mail, National Post, and Ottawa Citizen.