Spencer Isaac wrote a personal story that won the top honour in the 2014 Mi'gmaq Writers Award. Spencer opens his Award-Winning story with: "Everyone in their lifetime will experience the following: love, grief, gain and loss. We experience these feelings in one way or another-although not necessarily in that order – it is a reality we all eventually experience. See the funny thing is, we don’t appreciate love and gain without grief and loss. My motive for this piece is to address and share my personal experience
with the four themes, and hope to inspire others to find their incredible strengths within them."