Susan Flanagan is the owner/operator of 48 Degrees Inc, a communications company specializing in corporate and media communications and emergency preparedness. She has also worked as a freelance journalist (BJ, King’s College, NS, 1991) in St. John’s for 35 years. Her non-fiction works have appeared in Canadian Geographic, Canadian Running, National Geographic (maps), Newfoundland Quarterly, Queen’s Quarterly, The Hockey News, Doctors’ Review, Atlantic Progress, Atlantic Business, Saltscapes and Nelson Literacy’s high school textbook, Homegrown.

 

Susan is the author of two published novels: The Degrees of Barley Lick (Running the Goat), winner of the Second Novel Indie Book Award and chosen by the Association of Canadian Publishers as a Winter 2022 Top Grade Book; and Supermarket Baby (Flanker Press), winner 2019 Percy Janes First Novel Award.

 

She is currently entertaining options for a novel: Digital Detox (see separate section on website); and a screen play, The Perfect Killick, the novel of which won Honourable Mention, Novel Category, 25th Annual Atlantic Writing Competition, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. She also has written two non-fiction manuscripts: You’re Not the Eight I Ordered, a memoir about growing up in St. John’s in the 1960s and ‘70s; and a history of the tech industry in Newfoundland and Labrador from teh 1970s to the present. Finally Susan has written two yet-unpublished children's books (one in French and one in English) about the seven Peter Pan statues on three continents made from the same mold.

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Susan has also worked as a columnist for The Newfoundland Herald (48 Degrees, 2002-04) and The Telegram (The Kids are Alright, 2011-15), and as reporter, producer and researcher for CBC Radio and both NTV and CBC TV in Halifax and St. John’s.

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She lives in St. John's with her husband. They have five children, three daughters-in-law and one grandchild.